Super fun Sunday - had our Outbound session for Team Building. Basically you would be involved in a lot of group activities, and through these interventions you would be able to practically realise and apply the theoretical concepts in the course. Simplified - Basically you get 3 lectures worth of attendance for enjoying :D . For the people who also have SBN, it was a killer - they would get another 3 lectures worth of attendance!
But attendance was no big deal. The experience was superb. A team from STEP Consulting had come down to arrange the whole thing. We played a lot of fancy games; and all the games had fancy names (show-baazi)!
1. River Crossing:
We had to go upstream (against the slope)/downstream (along the slope) on a rope, suspending ourselves upside down, gripping the rope only with our hands (unlike a monkey crawl, where we also use our feet). Puppa decided to forsake the toss and go first - turned out to be a wrong decision :-P
2. Chair Making and Selling
Resources given - wood, nails.
Bid for: A saw
Objective: Win a saw. Build a chair. Sell at a profit.
Simple enough. Revisited the workshop experience I had during engineering!
I was basically hammering the nails; even hammered my own thumb once.
3. Rappelling
Needed to be done individually. Long wait for the turn, but the 2 floor climb happened too quickly. Not as exciting as I would have liked it to be.
4. Magic Mats
All the team members had to get across from one side to another, always stepping on the tiny mats provided, without ever coming into contact with the ground (otherwise the whole group has to restart!) and without losing contact with any mat (lest it would be taken away!). Showed how your mistake can harm the entire group!
5. Free Fall
Now this one was real fun :D . A group of people standing opposite to each other would keep their hands parallel to the ground, close to each other, forming a "web". And one person had to "free fall" backwards on this web - basically an act in which you trust your team mates to come to your aid. I was really surprised as to how some people just could make themselves fall properly!
6. Perfect Square
Find out a piece of rope on the ground, make a perfect square of it and have all team members standing on its side. Sounds very easy right? Oh, I forgot to add - everyone was blindfolded :D . And what a mess it was! Though I guess we did a decent job :)
7. Brick Mines
A little similar to Magic Mats. We needed to step on some bricks, and also have constant human contact with a brick. What created chaos was that 4 groups were asked to do it simultaneously!
The set of activities started off at 9 am and went on till 6.30. Pretty tired by now! Guess it's time to hit the bottle (I mean Volini) again.
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