Norval

For me, Norval was a lot of fun. We did lots of team building activities with our groups, I think we learned to trust each other more, and how to comunicate and work together.

Throughout the day, we did things like, the 14 ft wall where we really had to work as a team to get each person in our group up the wall, we had to really put our trust in the people at the top of the wall because they were the people who were completely holding us 14 ft above the ground. Another trust activity we did was the inuit blanket, where each person was lying flat on a blanket our classmates had to toss us up in the air and catch us again before we hit the ground.

One activity where we had to use communication was where one person in the group was suspended on ropes and the other people in the group were belaying them and had to communicate with each other on where to direct the person in order for them to pick up the balls that were around the course.

I think my group demonstrated the skills well, although we could have been a little better at communication because sometimes we were often caught with speaking over each other, or yelling rather, or relying Willem to make all the decisions. Which worked but we probably should have gotten other people in the group involved.

In summary Norval was a really fun day, I enjoyed working with my friends with the activities at Norval, the drum circle got the whole middleschool working together and it was a lot of fun!

Maddie