Three days at Tambouki

We spent three days at Tambouki and it taught us lots.
I learnt that leadership means being able to delegate and communicate. It does not help that you take the lead and then proceed to do everything yourself. I learnt that even tough I have lots of book knowledge I need lots of practice giving that knowledge over to other people(in this case guests) in a way and manner that they understand and can relate to. If there is one thing that has drastically improved over these past few days it is my people skills. Being able to avoid conflict by talking and changing your attitude is vital in keeping a group together successfully.
I learnt that making eye contact with guests while you speak to them is vital in keeping their interest and attention by you. Using all their senses is another important thing because the more of their senses they use the easier it is for them to relate to you.
In terms of the positives and negatives of the experience the positives hugely ought weigh the negatives.
I learnt that the more you repeat something to yourself the more you associate yourself with that topic and then you will be able to remember and relate easier in the future.
One thing that definitely stands out is the importance of a secure information base in terms of knowing why thins happen. A good example of this is the Lichen that grows on trees. We learnt what it is and just by knowing that it is fungus and algae living together we can interpret the information that we learnt into:

• the algae is green and thus produces energy by way of photosynthesis
• the fungi likes moist areas and so grows more in the shady side of a tree
• this means that you can tell direction with the lichen
• this is because the sun rises in the east and sets in the west so the lichen then grows on the southern side so that it is moist,slightly shady, yet still partially in the sun so that te algae may photosynthesise.
• fungi is able to break down cellulose and lignin in other words wood.
• so the food that the algae is not able to produce is provided by the fungi
• there are two symbiotic relationships present 1 Mutualism between the algae and the fungus this means that they both benefit from the relationship 2 commensialism between the lichen and the tree because the tree is unaffected and the lichen has a place to grow.