Interact Club Team Building Day

Today from 9:00-12:30 was the Interact club team building event. We arrived and were immediately sorted into one of the four committees (service, club, international and finance), I was put into the service committee. My committee was the biggest out of all, as we are the people who will actually carry out the service events. For today we were divided into two small groups for the activities.

Firstly the teachers, board members and other guests were introduced, and they told us about what we were going to do. We were then handed out various shapes and had to arrange them to make four squares, our team was the second to finish! The winners were awarded pens!
After this exercise we were given a sheet of paper in which we  had to rank fifteen survival devices from most important to least important. First off we had to do it separately, and then come together as a team and do it together. After this was finished the answers were read out, and we had to do a few calculations to see who the winners of the game were.

There was a brief break after this, and then we all ventured outside to have a potato-and-spoon race. The first four teams went and then we had a go. The two winners from both rounds had a final race to determine the overall winner. Our team didn't even make it to the second round.....
Afterwards there was a snack break, in which we all ate brownies and other cakes and biscuits.
We then went back into the MPR and had small meetings to cover our goals in our committee's. The badges were then handed out, and Mrs. Henderson warned us all of the consequences of losing them, and the honour that it was to have one. The event ended with a big group photo of Interact 2012-2013!!

I am really excited to start off this year in Interact, this event helped me bond with my team more and fired up my enthusiasm to attend the many different activities that go on during the year. I can't wait to start making a difference in the community, and to learn more about the poverty in Nairobi.