SAISA REFLECTION 3RD PLACE :)

This SAISA tournament taught me a lot. It taught me the importance of taking one step at a time as opposed to approaching something with too broader perspective. By concentrating on simply one game at a time and no thinking about where that fit in the bigger picture until the end when we had the final result was a strategy that led us to 3rd place. This is the best a girls team has done on SAISA in football for over 10 years and so really was a great achievement. In terms of the skills that i learnt as a member on this team at this particular tournament, they are skills which i will be able to reapply in the future to whatever it is that i am doing. I was awarded the MVP award, proof of these skills.

I think that the most important thing i learnt or rather had concreted by this experience was the importance of team work. Our coach emphasized the importance of our Collaborative skills and also continually spoke about the importance of personal perseverance and motivation. These were the skills i feel i built on during this tournament, it is quite interesting the different facets of these things that are revealed when taking the role of leader (captain). You realise their importance and significance something our coach has obviously learnt after years of experience.

GUEST SPEAKER - DAWG

As part of our work in conjunction with the blue paw trust we had their coordinator come and speak to the group today. She gave a general overview of their program to the students and discussed the similarities and differences between our program and theirs. The main difference that i could pick out was that ours is far more oriented towards domesticated dogs whereas theres deals with complete strays.
She talked to the students about safety around streetdogs and how best to care for their own pets. I think that it perhaps gave us a more global perspective on amimal care as she talked about the basic psychology of dogs and how they are treated in different parts of the world.

DAWG

Today during elective we worked as a unit towards our new fundraising initiative, our first job was over in the primary school for a grade 3 teacher. Our task was to clean and reorganise her shelving system. The students of the elective were very motivated and this motivation allowed us to finish the job with time to spare. I think that this way of raising money is not only benficial for our bank account but also for us as a team, its teaching us collaboration.