Once again Chef proved himself an interesting and interested facilitator. And I have to say playing games is one sure way of us learning what is being taught. Slapping papers in front of this group and then preaching to them is not going to stick as fun will.
What we learnt came down to one basic fact we don’t know how to communicate, plain and simple. This became more and more obvious as we dragged our names through the mud. Chef gave us a test on which there were a series of questions. He successfully confused us by suggesting that it was a test of our knowledge gathered so far. The first question Clearly stated that we must first read the instructions. There was only one student who did this, Cheri. I ridiculed myself completely by following the somewhat bizarre instructions to the T only to discover that the last instruction stated that we must sit back not do anything and watch everybody else make fools of themselves.
We also had to draw a cat. No one asked what kind of cat and so everybody got this wrong as well. By this time we started understanding the objective of the exercise. We could not follow instructions; not because we didn’t listen, but because we did not ask. The most difficult part of asking though is knowing which questions to ask.
Teamwork is proving to be less and less of a challenge and the teamwork highlighted this. I was in a team with P.G, Zenobia, and Eddy later also San-Mari. Together we had to prevent an egg from breaking, get a key in a cup, build a tower, make up our own Hakka and come up with a name for our team. All of the above with lots of twists and turns to make it a real challenge.
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