RSIS Big Build Vietnam: Teamwork and leadership skills

Posted: 15 December 2017

Big Build

Students have been uniting as a team on the project work site and divvy up tasks such as digging and moving resources such as rocks and sand. Students have been taking it in turns to lead the whole team, developing valuable leadership skills. Slowly but surely, their work is paying off and the dam is starting to take shape.

The finished dam will help improve the local farming infrastructure and will help to store water in the dry season and drain water during monsoon season.

 

 

Student blog update: 13th December – A Poem

Written by Owen, Chris, Adam, Izy and Viv

Today was a great day

For everyone

Once the day had begun

There was lots of work to be done

We met the group

And off we walked

“What a glorious place”

We beautifully thought

Carrying rocks

And shoveling sand

With our high quality gloves

None cut their hand

Man, I miss music

Maybe we’ll create a band

It was really dirty

I got mud on my sock

Owen, Chris and Ben

Moved a really big rock

We enjoyed playing

At the school

Man, those kids were

Quite cool

We wrapped up the day

With a friendly game of cards then a shower

It was really cold

Man I felt empowered

We grafted a good shift today I reckon

But golly gosh it was hard bruh

 

 

Visiting the local school

The team had the opportunity to visit the local village school. Students put together fun activities and games for the children at the school:

 

Student blog update: 15th December – highlights from the team

Today’s update was written as a large group and the students have summarized some of their favourite aspects of project life so far:

The most fun thing from being at the worksite is:

 

The best thing about being in an International Group is:

written by Klara, Josie, Freddy, Vicki, Kate, Clifford, Eeshan, Philips, Molly, Sophie Dennis, Grace, Dylan, Caitlin, Carline, Allie, Natasha, Nina, Saskia, Olivia, Nik, Vedansh, Gemma, Abby, Oscar, Arsh, Lisa, Asa, Keren.

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