Camp!

 Every school year the officers of each class would have a leadership training for a day or even just for a half day. This year it's a one and a half day training which seems to be like a 'mini camp'. With this way of leadership training many officers were so eager to join the seminar.As part of the LCB-A, our week before this said training was really busy because we had to prepare all the materials needed for the different games and also for the tokens. We also had to organized our schedules just to make sure that every activity would have an enough time allotted for it and for everything to run smoothly during the training.

So the Leadership Camp started at around 5 pm (July 19) for the registration at the GS AVR. It was really a pleasure to see big grins on the officers' faces as they signed up in the registration (I was part of the registration team). After everyone had signed up and had settled down in the AVR, we had a short prayer and short reminders of the house rules to be followed on the duration of training. Then we had our dinner at the refectory where each of the officers were seated with other officers from different year levels. This way, they started to go out their shells and started to interact with others not from their year level. After dinner, we had games which even tighten the bonds of the officers with each other. Then after that, we had the...... BONFIRE! That time, we all gathered together around the bonfire, sang songs and toasted our marshmallows. (Though not everyone had toasted their marshmallows because the heat from the bonfire was so high that every time you go near it seems like your face is getting burned.) We then had our 'grooming time'. After everyone had freshened up, we all gathered again in the AVR to watch a movie, which was entitled, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It was such a wonderful movie for you could get a lot of lessons in life. One of these is that we affect other people' lives no matter how small we do to them. After the movie, we slept.

Early morning the next day (July 20) we had our dawn rosary then a morning exercise led by the C.A.T. officers. Sadly, some of the LCB-A officers, including me weren't able to join the exercise because we still had to take a bath to prepare some things for the activities to be done that day. On this day, we had a discussion on being a good and effective leader and also talked about the problems they encountered in class as an officer. Then, a talk was given by Nang Shaira Gonzaga, an alumnae of Assumption Iloilo. It was such a commendable talk because we gained a lot of lessons from the experiences she had as a leader and the advice that she gave to us on being a good officer. 

After the talk, we had a 'Budol Fight' for lunch. Chopsuey and fried chickens with cups of rice were laid on the banana leaves set on the table. Delicious fruits like watermelon and pineapple were also served. That was really a fun experience! Then after that, tokens were given out to the officers then a concluding prayer was said. 

This Leadership Camp is such a memorable one not only because it seems to be like a mini camp but because of the friendships and good relationships that developed among the officers. 

P.S. I'll be posting some photos during the leadership camp after I get to have a copy of them. 

At home after the camp