Wednesday, July 9, 2008

PV08 Day 9

today, the last event for the leadership component came to a close. the mentees, divided into 3 groups were tasked to come up with 3 different community service project proposals to benefit 15MAY School once SEALNet concludes its project here for 2008. I must say, and I believe I speak for most of the team, that we were all very very impressed by their presentations. they were all of exquisite quality and also very feasible and practical.

The presentations all displayed organization, good team work and also quite impressive public speaking. I personally feel a sense of satisfaction with the fact that we saw these mentees incorporate the skills obtained from our workshop and applying them so well, it exceeded my expectations; despite them being Vietnam's brightest bunch. Shang and myself were most impressed with the group which we supervised today (Picture-Dictionary group). They took our critique and tips, and improved their final presentations so impressively. In addition, the feedback we got from them about our series of workshops was generally positive, with some very very encouraging remarks.

During the past week, there were many occasions where we as mentors had doubts about the commitment of the mentees towards working with MAY15 School once we leave, due to the fact that a number of them raised the issue of being able to relate to these 'street' children. That being said, I believe we have a new found confidence in their abilities and willingness to continue the work we've done and bring it to greater heights.

On a lighter note, my good friend, Shangster annd myself have progrssed from 'Sao Zais' to 'Tep Zais', that is from ugly boys to handsome boys according to Dao and Thuy, the 2 cutest girls at the school.

I can't help but think how they would feel monday, when SEALNet no longer shows up to their school.............




1 comment:

sweetcake said...

tu (sealnet copresident, pv07 leader): hi jeremy, i stumbled upon your blog while reading Hung's blog =) you should have posted your entire pv08 blog posts in the project blog or somewhere so other sealnetters can share the experience with you :)

tu