Sunday, 25 January 2009

Education&Career Planning(Club activity)





Founding my own club, TV series club is an experience impressed me a lot during the first term in GCA.
When I knew that every student can found the club that they want on planning class, I felt very excited because I love watching TV series especially American TV series. I am crazy about Prison Break, Gossip Girl and so on. I want to find a club called TV series club. I think this club is meaningful because we can improve our English when we watch English TV series. I talked to Ms .Barbell about my idea, she thought it was a good idea, and encouraged me to found the club. I was looking forward to founding the club successfully.
Actually, things did not continue smoothly. At first, a friend of mine asked me to found the club together, but she gave up the next day. She told me to give up, too. She said that it is stupid for a grade 10student to found a club, most of the club leaders are students in grade11 or grade12.I was upset, but I still want to give up. I talked to Ms.Bartell and ask for her advice; she cheered me up and encouraged me to found the club on my own. Then I find MS. Hadley and told her I still want to want to found the club.Ms Hadley likes TV series, too.She support the club by providing art room for the club to have meeting.
I didn’t give up during the process of found a club, even though I faced the difficulty. I think never giving up is a good characteristic that a leader need to have. If a leader gives up easily, the followers will give up easily as their leader. Sometimes, if a leader can not insist his or her idea, the leader will lose the control of the project or activity. I am a person who does not give up easily, so I think I am able to make the people follow my direction. I also asked Ms.Bartell and Ms.Hadley for advice when I faced the trouble. They gave me some good suggestions indeed. I think the communicating skill is also an important quality for a leader. Leaders might face many problems, they can not solve the entire problem perfectly on their own, so they need to be patient to ask for other people’s advice, and choose the good advice to try.
After found the club, I advertised about my club to attract members. I stuck application forms on the window and billboard in GCA building. I also asked Ms.Bartell and Ms. Hadley to hand out club’s application forms on their class to attract much more people. Not bad, more than thirty people signed the application form, and Grade in 10-C was interested in my club and she was happy to help me to organize the club.
I use different ways to advertise my club. I think a leader should have the ability to advertise the activity which they organized. I think I can advertise the activity and make people join me well,
TV series club usually have meeting on Tuesday after class in art room. I decide the time because on other weekdays, each day have a class finish their class early at 4:15, most of the club’s member can not wait for a long time to take part in club meeting. And I or Grace always write the time and place on the billboard on Monday to remind our members to take part in our meeing.I usually send their message to remind them, too. I always send an e-mail to Ms Hadley about the meeting’s plan.
I think these shows my organizing skill. A good leader should have a good plan about the activity that he or she oraganize, and decide the time fit for everyone. I think I can make a plan in details before I organize the activity and be able to let most of people satisfies about my plan.
On Halloween party this year, we asked to have something to do on Halloween party to the president of students’ council .Students’ council asked TV series club to be in charge of the ghost house. We were in charge of the movie house in the ghost house (GCA building), I and Grace, some members of the club decorated the house as beautiful as we can and borrowed speakers and computer from Mr. Gallinelli to play the movie. A lot of students came to the movie house at that night. I did the job successfully.
I have learned many things from this club activity.I am learning to be a good leader now.
I learned that good leaders should be active to look for some events or jobs to do, not only wait the teacher or other people to give them directions in my mind. I am very active to organize activity or do something .I hope that I can have chance to in charge of some other events in school.
All above is the experience that I get from club activity.

No comments: