Jump!★

I don't have a lot of time to write as I am trying to do everything I can to finish up my assignments and events stuff, but I am taking out some time to write here because I really want to. Last Friday, I went for a leadership programme hosted by the Student Council which lasted until yesterday. I went there representing the Japanese Cultural Society and I was the only one. ;_; But it's OK because a lot of other clubs also sent only one representative.

I made a lot of friends, local and international, and that is the fun part. Almost half of the 60 campers were international students and I found that pleasantly surprising. I was excited for it. The foreigners, they have a lot of insight and opinion to offer, and they do so professionally and subjectively, which I admire. I have never seen this side of international students and it made me so touched that they opened up even though normally, international students said nobody wants to approach or befriend them.

There was one session that I DID NOT ENJOY, and that was the ping pong game. We had to pass 6 ping pong balls around in our group and try to get the shortest completion time possible and the game will increase in difficulty. Simply put, my group wasn't considerate of all members being able to sit in a circle and play, and there was one really mindless and aggressive (I think Middle Eastern) guy in my group whom is just pure hatred and annoyance. He got worked up over a game even when we said "try again", "it's just a game", etc. I will elaborate further more when I write a full experience of this session. By the end of the game, each group had to show how they manage to complete the game in an extremely short amount of time, and this is the root cause of why I hate this game.

A vast majority of people started shouting over each other, trying to be heard, blaming each other like uncontrollable, berserk animals. It reminded me of Zootopia and I hated it so damn much. I have so much input and thoughts on this, which I will elaborate next time as well. I get so annoyed and my blood pressure goes up everytime I think about this moment. Can't you just be a representation of the person you strive to be? What were you trying to achieve behaving like that? Come on, people.

In one phrase, and I hope nobody bad from the camp will read this but I really wanna say this: Fuck you guys.

OK, this is a summary so I will end here!

p.s. I did learn a lot from this programme, good and bad alike. And I did improve as a person, and also my interpersonal skills, so I am glad I joined.