First Real Personal Social Event
Okay most of you, albeit that's more like all of you, don't know that this past January I was elected as the social coordinator for the English Teachers in my prefecture (or State). I didn't really want the position, (I was hoping for president-but being too shy about it I ended up not nominating myself thus, not getting it.....)but anywho someone nominated me and I thought, "eh?, what the heck?." Boy, I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. Personally, I think being the social coordinator is a WHOLE LOT more work than being president, although we have an excellent president and he's doing his fair share of work. I have to use my Japanese (which is a blessing because I was beginning to feel like I wasn't using it much here..... funny, eh?), organization skills, and diplomatic skills (which is hard!). I can no longer be a friend, I sometimes have to be the "boss" and set my foot down. And sometimes making decisions about close friends that didn't follow the rules can be tough!
We've had three official events already, but this past weekend was the first one that I actually attended. The first one was organized by the second coordinator, the second by myself although I didn't go.... and this third one myself (but of course with tons of help from the council...), but this third event was very different because so many details needed to be thought after. We had a barbecue at a beach site near my area, and tons of things that could go wrong did go wrong. But.... I learned so many lessons...
1. Calm down and relax
2. CALM DOWN and RELAX
3. Work on my lateness. It's a ban in my existence, but I really need to work on
it... especially when other's are depending on me to be somewhere at a certain time.
4. Understand that things will never be prefect and that I need to be quick on my
toes to improvise. Keep the flow moving and doing so without making people feel
as if some thing's wrong.
5. Being understanding with the people you work with. They make mistakes too, except it, don't criticize them for it and MOVE on.
6. BE CALM AND RELAX
I'm sure there will be more on the adventures of the coordinator sherls....
We've had three official events already, but this past weekend was the first one that I actually attended. The first one was organized by the second coordinator, the second by myself although I didn't go.... and this third one myself (but of course with tons of help from the council...), but this third event was very different because so many details needed to be thought after. We had a barbecue at a beach site near my area, and tons of things that could go wrong did go wrong. But.... I learned so many lessons...
1. Calm down and relax
2. CALM DOWN and RELAX
3. Work on my lateness. It's a ban in my existence, but I really need to work on
it... especially when other's are depending on me to be somewhere at a certain time.
4. Understand that things will never be prefect and that I need to be quick on my
toes to improvise. Keep the flow moving and doing so without making people feel
as if some thing's wrong.
5. Being understanding with the people you work with. They make mistakes too, except it, don't criticize them for it and MOVE on.
6. BE CALM AND RELAX
I'm sure there will be more on the adventures of the coordinator sherls....
posted by Shrls at 12:08 PM
2 Comments:
LMAO that was funny. Cuz I can picture you all frantic and hyper on that day. "Tet sho" not sure if my creole is on point but you get the idea. lol
haha! that's exactly how it was. but people where saying left and right that they had a really good time, so i'm happy with the result!!!! now i'm planning july's event. we're gong dolphin swimming!!! :)
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