Team RYLA 06 - Monday
Blogging about RYLA day by day has been weird for me (and i'm sorry it hasn't been as frequent as i said) because it's dawned on me, simply because of what i'm about to blog on, that our days were in fact, incredibly long and yet i hadn't even noticed it until now.
So...Monday at Camp RYLA....
The club 'Toastmasters' came to speak to us about public speaking, i was really keen for this because i realy love all that sort of stuff, not that i'm good at it but that i love it!
They demonstrated all sorts of good and bad ways to public speak. Andrew Garven was one of the speakers and i didn't even know he was into all that sort of stuff, he did a really great job. In fact, they were all great and they had a little bit of everything included in their talks. The only negative i thought was that all the speakers seemed extremely structured and unnatural, that was a set back for me, i prefer a speaker to sound natural if they're going to speak without notes. But it's not a negative negative but rather a negative positive coz although they were a bit structured, they were still really captivating and good.
The turn for us to have a go came around and we were split into about 8 groups of about 10. We each had to get up and do an impromptu speech for one minute on a topic we were given. Some of them were so random and irratating, like the one i got and so when i had to speak i started off fine but just lost track of what i was saying and broke down half way through saying 'thanks for listening but i don't want to do this anymore' and i sat down. Half the group didn't even know i was nervous as all heck apparently. After our talks the group had to give negative and positive feedback and it was nice to hear the positives. One being that i have an engaging and captivating way of presenting something (too bad, i can't deliver the content, eh!?) . It was also good to hear the negatives all of which i'm all too aware of!
So we learnt about impromptu speaking. We then were taught about prepared speaking. After that we were informed that there would be public speaking that night from the groups.
One person to host/mc the group, one person to give a prepared speech and one person to give the feedback to the speaker. I wanted to MC it but they put my name forward to speak. It was a definate no because i knew i'd freeze and couldn't do it. But there was another girl, Kerrie who wanted to MC it. Orginally we both agreed to MCing it but i thought that would be weird so I opted out and besides it gave Kerrie and opportunity to do something she wasn't overly familiar or comfortable with, so it was probably more beneficial for her and after all, RYLA was all about going outside your comfort zone!!!
It was a relatively long night listening to all the groups speaking, but still very enjoyable, alot of laughs but also alot of feeling, especially for the more serious topics. Each speaker spoke on a passion of theirs and so it was interesting getting a glimpse into other people's lives and what made them passionate, i enjoyed it.
After 'speech night' we were required to keep working on our Tuesday Night Dinner Project. I wasn't looking forward to that coz it was boring. It wasn't as late as Sunday night but alot more dull. Yet again the SAA's didn't really have alot of planning to do, our planning came on the actual night (although i suspect quite a lot of it could've been done on the Sunday and Monday night!).
I think it was on Monday night it was raining quite heavily and so becoming bored with not doing anything, i headed on over to the decor people to see what they were getting up to. That day we had all done some finger painting (oh my gosh...) as the theme was Australiana or something and they wanted some hand paintings to represent aboriginal painting i'm guessing. While we waited to smoosh our hands in gooey paint, one chap, in front of me, James, turned to me and asked, 'do i know you from somewhere?' to which i replied, 'not that i know of' however we both established our love for acting/theatre/drama/creative arts and from that day on, it was as though we had known each other for a long time. He is a great friend to this day even if at times i am not!
So Monday night, in with the decor people......they finished up what they were doing, most people going to bed and so Anita, Kylie and myself decided that we should hunt down a guitar and have a praise and worship time because the lack of Christan music was becoming noticeable. So we grabbed my very old Hillsong book, a guitar and jammed at midnight praising our Lord. It was an awesome witnessing opportunity as 4 or 5 guys came in half way through just having some serious conversation about the dinner (hehe old women!). We just kept right on singing etc to which at one point they asked us if they were bothering us and we said no...and kept on singing....hehehe....it was nice, but by the end of it, we just wanted to fall asleep.
So we packed up our things, said our goodnites and departed to our sleeping holes.
More days to come, we're not even half way there yet!
Tink xoxo
So...Monday at Camp RYLA....
The club 'Toastmasters' came to speak to us about public speaking, i was really keen for this because i realy love all that sort of stuff, not that i'm good at it but that i love it!
They demonstrated all sorts of good and bad ways to public speak. Andrew Garven was one of the speakers and i didn't even know he was into all that sort of stuff, he did a really great job. In fact, they were all great and they had a little bit of everything included in their talks. The only negative i thought was that all the speakers seemed extremely structured and unnatural, that was a set back for me, i prefer a speaker to sound natural if they're going to speak without notes. But it's not a negative negative but rather a negative positive coz although they were a bit structured, they were still really captivating and good.
The turn for us to have a go came around and we were split into about 8 groups of about 10. We each had to get up and do an impromptu speech for one minute on a topic we were given. Some of them were so random and irratating, like the one i got and so when i had to speak i started off fine but just lost track of what i was saying and broke down half way through saying 'thanks for listening but i don't want to do this anymore' and i sat down. Half the group didn't even know i was nervous as all heck apparently. After our talks the group had to give negative and positive feedback and it was nice to hear the positives. One being that i have an engaging and captivating way of presenting something (too bad, i can't deliver the content, eh!?) . It was also good to hear the negatives all of which i'm all too aware of!
So we learnt about impromptu speaking. We then were taught about prepared speaking. After that we were informed that there would be public speaking that night from the groups.
One person to host/mc the group, one person to give a prepared speech and one person to give the feedback to the speaker. I wanted to MC it but they put my name forward to speak. It was a definate no because i knew i'd freeze and couldn't do it. But there was another girl, Kerrie who wanted to MC it. Orginally we both agreed to MCing it but i thought that would be weird so I opted out and besides it gave Kerrie and opportunity to do something she wasn't overly familiar or comfortable with, so it was probably more beneficial for her and after all, RYLA was all about going outside your comfort zone!!!
It was a relatively long night listening to all the groups speaking, but still very enjoyable, alot of laughs but also alot of feeling, especially for the more serious topics. Each speaker spoke on a passion of theirs and so it was interesting getting a glimpse into other people's lives and what made them passionate, i enjoyed it.
After 'speech night' we were required to keep working on our Tuesday Night Dinner Project. I wasn't looking forward to that coz it was boring. It wasn't as late as Sunday night but alot more dull. Yet again the SAA's didn't really have alot of planning to do, our planning came on the actual night (although i suspect quite a lot of it could've been done on the Sunday and Monday night!).
I think it was on Monday night it was raining quite heavily and so becoming bored with not doing anything, i headed on over to the decor people to see what they were getting up to. That day we had all done some finger painting (oh my gosh...) as the theme was Australiana or something and they wanted some hand paintings to represent aboriginal painting i'm guessing. While we waited to smoosh our hands in gooey paint, one chap, in front of me, James, turned to me and asked, 'do i know you from somewhere?' to which i replied, 'not that i know of' however we both established our love for acting/theatre/drama/creative arts and from that day on, it was as though we had known each other for a long time. He is a great friend to this day even if at times i am not!
So Monday night, in with the decor people......they finished up what they were doing, most people going to bed and so Anita, Kylie and myself decided that we should hunt down a guitar and have a praise and worship time because the lack of Christan music was becoming noticeable. So we grabbed my very old Hillsong book, a guitar and jammed at midnight praising our Lord. It was an awesome witnessing opportunity as 4 or 5 guys came in half way through just having some serious conversation about the dinner (hehe old women!). We just kept right on singing etc to which at one point they asked us if they were bothering us and we said no...and kept on singing....hehehe....it was nice, but by the end of it, we just wanted to fall asleep.
So we packed up our things, said our goodnites and departed to our sleeping holes.
More days to come, we're not even half way there yet!
Tink xoxo
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Monday, March 06, 2006
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