I was very successful during Charger Trails.  For example, during the Hog Call I would be a leader and help people go where they needed to be and when I needed help I would be corporative and listen to my peers.  Also when I went to the Marble challenge I would share my ideas and when thy didn’t work I would be flexible and use my friends ideas.  Lastly, at the maze we couldn’t talk so I had to be okay with being wrong because I had to try different ways so the my team could be successful.

At Charger Trails, I think the Gulledge Ghouls did a great job working together during the activities. One thing I think we need to work on is listening to other people’s ideas instead of having “to many cooks in the kitchen.”  The first activity was Marble Luge. In this challenge I think we worked together, but we didn’t listen to each others ideas. The idea that completed the goal was mentioned in the beginning , but it wasn’t listened to. The next activity was Hog Call. This is where Mr. Rokuskie would put a card on our backs that matched with the card on  someone else’s back. We were not allowed to talk. This activity was not to hard because others could see your card and point you in the direction of your partner. I think in this challenge we didn’t have to many leaders and we worked together nicely.  Then we went to the maze. The maze was difficult because there was only one way to go through the maze and we could not talk to each other. I think there were many leaders pointing in different directions.

I really enjoyed the charger trails. I feel like it was a nice way to work on cooperating with a group of people. It was a similar experience to the activities we participated in at Camp Hanes. There were three activities that we went through. I personally feel like I really saw what the teachers were talking about. That some people have strengths in certain areas whereas others may have strengths in other activities. I feel like as a friend I was successful because I learned more about my friends. As a teammate I was successful because I was helping my team towards our goal of completing the puzzle. I feel like this showed especially in The maze and the hog call. We had some good laughs but we were working together to our goal as well. Overall I think it was a really fun experience.

Hog Call:

What I did at this challenge was help direct the people to there appropriate match and helped them get paired up. I sort of did what a lot of people in my advisory did and did some traffic control signals to guide them and tapped on their chairs to get their attention. I felt like more of a team member on that one.

Marble Luge:

This one I really focused on getting to talk more. The challenge was not as important to me. I was more worried about not connecting with my advisory. Then near the end of the challenge I focused on getting the marble in the cup, but I was a friend on this challenge.

Maze:

This challenge was what I thought was the toughest challenge. We weren’t all getting out our ideas and it was a bit of a struggle. Near the end of the challenge we found a great strategy and it was so effective we got to do two mazes. On this challenge I was a team member. Like most people when I finished the maze I tried to guide the people who where still trying to get across. I was a team member on this one.

In the Charger Trails activities I thought the Gulledge Ghouls advisory worked together as a team. The Marble challenge was the first activity we did and also the hardest. I think we had to warm up and remember how to work as a team. We were successful with the Hog call and Maze. We communicated to each other even though for both activities we could not talk. I found other ways to communicate by pointing, facial expressions, and other gestures. Every one at one point was a leader directing people where to go and what to do. At some points I thought there were to many leaders but as soon as people realized they backed down. We listened to others ideas and took advise from our teachers on how to improve the success of the activity. This was a fun experience on using team work and building bonds and friendships with our community.

Marble luge, Hog call and the Maze

When we did these activities I thought that our advisory bonded well with each other  but, we didn’t let every body share these ideas. I think charger trails was a wonder experience to have with my enrichment class. The activity’s were challenging but once you get the hang of it it was just a game. Marble luge was where was had 12 PVC pipes and one marble the marble cant touch the floor but the person withe the marble can’t move but have to get it in the cup. I think this challenge was difficult because we didn’t know how to approach it. We never did complete the challenge but were very close. The Hog calls were where we had a word taped to our back and then had to match them with each other and we couldn’t talk. This one was easier challenges because people would point to each other and they would match up. The last challenge was the maze… The was was a four by four mat. Then we would have to complete it without making any noise unless we would restart. This was the hardest challenge because if we made one mistake you had to restart I think many leaders rose up and helped each other.

“Some times there are too many chef in the kitchen”.

I think that I was successful as a friend and as a team member because I helped other people out and I didn’t try to make people feel uncomfortable.

For the Marble Luge, I thought we were struggling at first because we kept doing the same strategy. Then we thought of a new strategy and it worked well. We were inches from completing the task, but we were unlucky and missed the cup. I think that I had continued the idea of Alex L.’s idea of chopsticks, but thought of an alternative. Now that think about it, I think there was a better way of completing the task, which was to put everyone behind the person with the marble, so it was easier to get in the cup.

For the Hog Call, I think we did very good. We figured out how to get the partners together fast, because people were helping each other. I think that we should have had 1 or 2 leaders instead of everyone being a leader because it would make things a lot faster. Though, we thought as a team and successfully completed the challenge. I was trying to help people know what there word was by referring to gestures and other words.

The Maze Challenge was probably the harder than the rest, but with the help  of Ms. Lund, we were able to complete the task faster and more efficiently. We did a line, instead of one by one. I think that we could have worked on everyone agreeing on a certain position instead of pointing at a square and never changing their mind. I think that I could have improved on helping people.

Overall, I think that the challenge required a lot of teamwork, but was most importantly: fun.

I was successful today as a team member and a friend during charger trails today. some reasons why are…

during the Hog call activity I helped many people find their match making the game funnier (which will be a word one day) and also easier and less frantic. in the marble challenge I helped my team by suggesting new ideas when needed and listening to others when the suggested new ideas. this made the challenge easier because we then had more ideas to try and more of a chance to get the challenge completed.  In the maze activity I helped by trying the right spaces.

Our first activity was Marble Luge. I think I was successful as team member in that activity because I listened to what everyone agreed on and what some leaders said. I think I was kind of successful as a friend because I tried to help as best as I could, but I don’t think I did anything to help someone else. Our second activity was Hog Call. I believe I was successful as a team member and a friend because I decided to trust the people who were trying to help me, but I don’t think I did much to help other people. Our third activity was the Maze. I think I was successful as a team member because I listened to where some people told me to go. I sometimes went where I wanted to go because different people were telling me to go to different places so I made a decision instead. I was a friend because I tried to help the people in front of me if they forgot where to go.

I think that charger trails was very successful because everyone was both a friend and a teammate in the various activities that we did. One of these examples was in the Hog Call, when Mr. Rokuskie taped different words on our backs and we had to partner with the person with the matching word. I think that everyone was a leader in some way because everyone was cooperating and helping get people together with their matches. Also, in the Marble Luge we tried many different ways to get a marble 18 feet into a cup. After many failed attempts we still couldn’t get it in. I think that the reason this happened was because we weren’t listening to everybody’s suggestions and only trying certain things that we thought were ok.  The last example that I have is the Maze Challenge. I think that we worked really well after we tried different ideas and different things. We started off with going one by one, but then we realized that that was going way to slow, so we started a line, which made that process much more fast and efficient. I think that this experience made our advisory better friends.