In our interpersonal skills I have learned to communicate and reach out other people. I know that some of my classmates are Computer Science student and I am not that close to them as well to my other classmates in FTS but by the help of interpersonal skills I have learned to pay attention to them, communicate to them and make them as my new friends. In our interpersonal skills, new friendship are born because if you are willing to make friends with them you will enjoy the activity because all of my classmate are fun to be with even though they are noisy and happy sometimes but I still love them. In our interpersonal activity I learn to widen my network of friends since I am an introvert person but with the help of our interpersonal activity I have learned to communicate to them. In our interpersonal skills I have learned to respect other people, respect our differences and uniqueness. I have learned to believe in myself more and to pay attention to the people around me. We started to brainstorm for us to have a common goal for the expectations we are expecting for this team building. Fun. Meet new friends. Build trust with each other.
These are some of our expectations for this event. Cliche as it may seem but it is the simplest words to describe our expectations. The six of us has the same thoughts also. Asking what is our mood for the day? We are determined. We are determined to achieve all our expectations throughout the day. A picture of an elephant, and we are asked how many legs we see in the pictures. Some answered four; others answer 6 and many other opinions. And the next picture is she presented a duck picture but later on I can see and image of a rabbit. Also she presented a picture with an old woman and a young woman in the same image of a person. In that activity, each of us has different perspective in every picture, we have different opinions and different ideas. I have learned in that activity to be open-minded person, because it doesn’t mean that you only see one picture that is only thing you can see, there are many hidden things in this world that you need to think and discover. Being open minded on the things would help you a lot on the things that you don’t know. I can also relate to this activity is the lesson I get from our instructor that we need to think out of the box. Also I have also realize that I also need to share ideas and willing to listen from the ideas of my fellow classmate or even in different person, because acquiring knowledge from others is a lot better for you to be able to know new ideas. And also by this you can also think different possibilities that may occur. I want to apply this lesson in the field trip and seminar. We were given a piece of paper that contains a drawing of a tree, with different kids drawn at the different parts of the trees. There are children smiling at the bottom or the roots of the trees, there is a child who is climbing the trees, there are two kids on the left swinging, and many more.
I looked at it and I looked at the title. I think the title was “Who am I on the tree”, or something close to this title. The next activity took place in the afternoon and we were regrouped into different groups, so I ended up with a different set of group mates. We were needed to draw something that our runner tells us from the one who watches the drawing. There is a drawing at the back side, with 1 watcher per group looking at the drawing. The runner is the one who listens to the instructions of our watcher then he sends what he heard to us, the drawers. We were awkward at first but we decided to pick someone who could draw better than anyone else in the group, because most of us couldn’t draw well. Our best drawer started to draw the basic instructions of the runner. This time, it’s personal and individual. We were grouped into 12 groups and I ended up with 2 other guys. We showed our drawings and explained the reason behind it. Our drawings were a representation of our dinner table, with a square, circle or rectangular picture drawn at the center and was surrounded with figures or shapes. These shapes were representation of the members in the dinner table. I forgot my drawing but I’m sure I learned something from the two other members of the group. The other was says that he was just fine, his family is fine and their dinner table were not that kind of sad. The other guy said that he is the joker of their family, and the center of the table was a serving spoon, with his dad drawn as the hammer of justice. He explained further that when there are visitors, especially classmates that visit him at the house, they should use the serving spoon. Because his father is so strict about that and his father creates the rule of the family, so he drew him as the hammer of justice. When I started explaining, I realized something I did not know or a fact that I did just ignored for many years we believed that our drawing was close to the original drawing that we were supposed to copy. When the drawing was revealed, only one group got it so close while the others are pretty far from the original drawing. We then shared our experiences and learning and most of them said that the instructions that the runners send to the drawers were almost similar. When I was called to answer, I told them what I have learned and pointed out the possible cause of error. It would be our different perspectives. If someone says or describes something, people may ended up thinking with different images, based from their different perspective and beliefs. It was not the error of the runner neither to our watcher. It was just we had a different perspective. What I learned here is that I should have been the one who was watching the picture, like what I have thought earlier while the game or activity rules is being discussed. Because what I believed earlier were close enough to what have happened right now. It was just I lacked the force to do it. I have the courage but I decided to let others do it, if they want. Maybe because I wanted someone to do it if they wanted it, or maybe I was lazy at that time since it was the time where I sleep in the afternoon. Either way, it was nobody’s fault when we lost. She instructed that we should choose, one of us should be a runner, one will be the seer and others will be the doer.
I and my team members is very confused what will be the activity. She told the rules of each of us. The seer will be the only person who can see the picture, and the seer is on the other side of the social hall, where we cannot see his or his. Then the runner will be going to go back and fort to ask questions from the seer. And the rule of the doers is to draw the picture that only the seer can tell. And when the activity has start, our group makes a plan what to do, while our runner is asking question on the seer, we the doer also thinks what is the possible outcome of the picture. Every one of us participated. If we have question we do not hesitate to ask question. We also share different ideas. And in the end, we won the said activity. Our facilitator asked what are our techniques why we won on the activity; one of my co-member answers is we planed and we think the best solution to the problem. And we work together to achieved the goals that we want.
In the field trip and seminar, I think that we need to apply what we do in my group. We need to think and planned if there is a problem in us and we need to work as a group. Because we do not go there as an individual we will go there bringing the name of our department and our university therefore we go there as a team. And as a team, we need to contribute and participate in the activity that will happen. We should not make any mistake in there because we are bringing the pride of USEP. Going to the Manila is not an easy event, and therefore we must be prepared of the possibilities that may come to us and we need to have a defensive tactics that we need to prepare. And if there is any way to improve myself, I have to look at the positive side of life. I also have to be myself, which is what I am doing most of the time, because I know that I don’t have to be someone who is not really me. My friends advised me to meet new people, especially people with different attitude, because if I do that, I will be having a wider range of ideas on how to deal with different types of person, and it will also expose me to some things that may help me to become a better person. I also need to have a sense of humor. That is one of my biggest problems, as being a person. I should also find time to have fun with all of what I am doing. I should not take things seriously at all times. I should be with people who always look life in a positive way. Because being with them will also make me become an optimistic person. I should always be with those people who always encourage me to do things that I usually don’t do. And the last thing that I should do to improve my personality composition and ideas that you have you need it to share to others so that the group would come up a better solution. I have discovered many things which include my false first impressions for my classmates. I thought that my classmates in the evening section were serious enough in dealing many things especially in terms of academics and of course in terms of dealing with the said activity but the great thing is they are more fun to be with in reality. They are cool and funny not like the one that I thought about them. Through that activity we were able to voice out our expectations about the activity. During our sharing, the fun started and it was because of the fact that we are all have the same thing within us that we understand each other’s emotions. The thing I expected that the interpersonal skills seminar and the team building was very helpful for us individuals especially to the participants of the field trip because this will help us in knowing ourselves better than before and I can probably say that I really found myself through this activity. Earlier, I had the chance to share to the class my thoughts about a certain phrase that our speaker has given us.
I have spoken by my heart and it really feels good to speak in front of many people about what you think about a certain topic. I am really thankful that I’ve joined this activity because I’ve really learned a lot throughout the whole activity was is has to be fun, I get the chance to get to know more better my classmates .
