CAS WORKSHOP

1/09/12

Before starting to perform the activities at Teens to Kids, we were introduced the basic skills ad attitudes towards facing the children during the CAS workshop which was held on the 1st of September 2012, Saturday. Not only Teens to Kids, but other service groups such as Healthy Kids, Buku Berjalan, and Go Green partcipated in this workshop. Our service group leaders and Ms. Vivi were the ones who drilled us throughout this whole workshop. At first, i thought it was some kind of regular workshop where they give some sort of a boring presentation and a question and answer session. But i thought wrong, because this workshop was definitely a lot of fun and i learned a lot from it. what made it fun was the fact that there were alot of games and activities, and we were playing these games to compete against the other service clubs, so it definitely motivated us and kept out team spirit to win the games. The activities vary, such as entertaining the "kids" (pretending the audience were a bunch of little kids). we had to entertain them by singing a song while dancing, and also story telling, or a drama that goes along with it. afterwards, Ms.Vivi and our group leaders assesed our performance and decided which one was the best. since i am a shy person when it comes to performing in front of an audience, i guess i challenged myself to become a risk-taker and face the challenge. also, we had to be open-minded, share our ideas to our teammates and as well as be excellent communicators when speaking in front and between our friends. so after we performed, the leaders of the group gave us feedback, on how to improve later during the actual service. they also handed us a worksheet to fill in, questions regarding on what i've learned in the workshop and how to improve next time. so i guess it helped me o become a reflective individual as well.