Venture Day

Today for our English class we all took part in a team building activity that was intended to be a team-building experience but to me it was much more than that.  We began by playing a card game where evryone was given a card and asked to hold it to their head.  The higher the card, the more "popular" you were. The lower the card, the less "popular" you were.  Surprisingly to me, some of the high carded people conversed with the low carded people.  This was great to see and it made me realize that just because you are considered the standard of "popular" doesn't mean you can't mingle with people who aren't.

The next game began with everyone recieving a picture.  We were asked to match our pictures with others that had similar pictures to ours without talking to one another.  So we began to collectively sort through the pictures and place them together.  But as the process continued I noticed that all the pictures went together in a specific order.  As we placed them on the ground in order the views point of the pictures began to steadily zoom out.  It continued to do so until the order ended with a picture of Earth in space.  In the simplistic view it was interesting to see.  But when I looked at it from a learning view point I saw that each person has a specific role in society.  Its a group effort to make society work. We all work together as a team to make everything operate in unison.

For the thrid and final game, it was a lot like dodgeball.  One person was chosen to be it first.  that person's goal was to tag everyone and expand their team.  As the team began to grow it became more and more difficult to get away fromthe people that were it.  Every person on this team worked together to bring the remainig people to the other team.  I noticed that as the game progressed the team grew. The larger the team, the easier the task at hand was. 

Today was very helpful in understanding just how beneficial and productive a team is.  I enjoyed it a lot and learned a few lessons.  I would like to participate in more Venture activities in the future.  I plan on utilizing the team as a tool to better my performance in any way I can apply it to daily tasks.