Day 3: Public Speaking!

Yeps, first up for the detailed blog post.

The day started off with breakfast, soon after we were divided into different groups according to out course. For us, its Science world.

Began with the Oxfam presentation, a non-profit charity organisation.

Next up was the Leadership Lecture by Barbara Cargill, a well known leadership workshop lecturer. The talk was really interesting.
She mentioned some stuffs about being humble, being confident, moral values.
A quote GaoQian shared with us during de-brief today.
"A Successfull Leader is one who sleeps less than 10 hours a day."
From past experience, the lecturer was spot on about it.
But, Ms Tan also mentioned something about Leaders need to have a lot of energy and stamina, you don't sleep less to off track to do other stuffs, you sacrifice that time to do things which are important and crucial. Dosen't mean that sleeping less makes you a leader. A point to note

Next up was this open ceremony. Not till the de-brief session, I wasnt really sure about what the "Kangaroos" were doing, what has it go to do with open ceremony and stuffs. Like Ms Low mentioned earlier on, its all about learning Australia culture, knowing each others' history. Likewise when others visit Singapore, we also would hope to show them our unique culture, our multi-racial society, applies to the Open Ceremony too.

After a short break, some of us did Public Speaking while some did Team Games instead. Im sure majority of us did both. I'm going to start of with the public speaking.

Really fruitful, another opportunity for us to stand up in front of the miniature size audience and giving a speech. Other than getting a chance for us to showcase our public speaking skills, it was also another space for us learn how the students all over the world overcome this obstacle, what kind of speech they gave, the language they use. Just for this example, theres this guy called Josh, an Australian.
2 words to describe him - Absolute Confidence. We could tell he didnt do any notes. He just went out there, gave a great speech. Total awesomeness.
Earlier on, during our de-brief, a few of us mentioned about what they had learned about public speaking, some overcomed their fear, some gain more confidence. I'm pretty sure everyone of us learned something from this workshop.
Basically, we were suppose to form our own groups, no help from menthors, under certain requirement. One of them I really liked was
"4 Different International Race in each group"
As global citizens, racism is something all of us must overcome, move on towards racial harmony.
The games was really entertaining, not a single minute was bored or "sian".
Every single game is categorised into different themes, some was Physics, Mathematics, Geography and History.
ALSO! Must Read! An Add-On I forgot about it.
I'm sure all of us participated in this mini-competition. Any noticed the host?
He was one of the very inspirational people I met till now in Melbourne.
He was just funny, entertaining, and he isnt afraid of people laughing at his lame mistakes.
*this is really something we should learn from, let ourselves go, dont be over self-conscious.*

After taking short breaks, some of us went to play soccer with the rest of the summer school guys. Though different culture, different accents, a common sport.
It was really engaging, especially playing with non-asians. In fact, it was challenging, put our communication skills to a test.

Later on,Trivia Night started. YEA!
My team was totally terrific, superb bonding going on.
Everyone was just busy participating, looking for answers.
Nice.

Soon later on, de-brief. Ms Tan said something about how she plan speeches, which I would like to share here.
A few important notes she shared, such as observing whats going on everyday in our lives. And use these examples and stories as the materials in our speech. Definitely worth a point taking down.

Ending off, I hope tomorow will be going to this Mind and Body Museuem.

PS. to those taking doing the bloggin soon. You might wanna try my method. Bedies jotting down notes. A recorded version really helps alot. After spending 2hour plus listening, while listening, we can do some personal reflection on ourselves, in case we missed out any point.:D

Plus!, if you want to record, permission! You heard it for yourselves, by right, its illegal

Regards,
Wei Jie