Overflowing Stories...Overflowing Lessons

"It is better to endure the hardships of learning than to suffer from the bitterness of ignorance." This is a relevant quote relative to what we have just done today-- attending our sessions and activities.

During sessions, delegates listened attentively to speakers to gain more knowledge about different topics such as peer education, ARH, self-esteem, body talk, flower arrangement, fine dining, intergenerational relationship, stress and time management, empowering women and strategic leadership. As a result, after each session, girls earned different information about certain topics.

In the morning, one of the sessions dealt on peer education and ARH. After the discussion, the girls were asked to do activities where they could put into action what they have learned. There were sessions about self-esteem (and also the body talk), where the self-confidence of each participant was enhanced.

"Learn to improve your personality through a positive way" is the best sentence that summarized what personality development is. Tita Maveec taught the girls how to walk, talk, stand, pick a thing or do something properly. In the intergenerational relationship session meanwhile, the girls learned that it is normal to commit "gaps" between them and their parents and grandparents due to changes brought by time. But what is important is that we do something to fix that gap between them.

Girls like us usually love flowers that’s why many girls chose to attend the session about flower arrangement where they’ve learned styles and techniques in arranging flowers.
So, that’s what the girls did for the whole day. They were very attentive during sessions because they believe that someday these things will help them. Indeed, it is better to endure the hardships of learning than to suffer from the bitterness of ignorance.

Expectations

One’s level of expectations is desired depending on the kind of camp/activity that is intended to be undergone. As we are attending this National Senior-Cadet Conference ’07, we undoubtedly hope for the positive outcomes of it. This confab, will surely bring out the best of who we are and we’ll be honed to become well-rounded individuals. We do expect to gain knowledge and further learnings about certain things which are unknown to us. Likewise, we have in mind the expectation that we’ll be generating unexplored strategies on how to become effective leaders and followers in the future. It is indeed expected that we’ll be establishing friendships among our co-girl scouts coming from various councils. For sure, leadership topics won’t be omitted in this conference. We are hoping that our skills will be enhanced. Also, we are expecting that we will be trained into becoming independent and responsible citizens. Lastly, its time for recreation as well! We are in full anticipation in seeing the beauty and nature of Baguio.

Impression: What I Found?!?

We weren’t hesitant to join in this National Senior-Cadet Conference ’07, for we know that the learnings that we’ll be acquiring, will be of great help. At the start, we find it really hard to adjust with our environment for the ambiance and people are unfamiliar to us. We thought that this confab will be boring knowing that there are numerous lectures but then, it turned out that we were absolutely wrong. The resource/guest speakers were undoubtedly entertaining. The staff was well-accommodating and friendly. The confab site definitely coordinates with the climate. We look forward to visit the historic landmarks in this city and the facilities. We are glad that the facilitators wholeheartedly accept their mistakes and faults.