Wednesday, August 31, 2005
The Linkers Club Reatreat, my version of the report
abstract:
imagine: 60 computer scientists, 1 bus, 1 pickup, 1 van, laptops, pcs,
wifi, lanparty, counterstrike, bicycles, skateboards, 1 plastic of
videoke tokens, survivor teams & programs, very nice artistically
designed resort, professional cafeteria cooks, devotionals, Sabbath
sessions, special food for vegetarians, 3 nice bean-shaped swimming
pools, beach, snorkling, and with special performance of Philippine
Acrobatic Team Member walking in wire, break dance acrobatics, tug of
war, surviror teams, wire-walking tutorial, mr&ms sariaya (our
version), obstacle race, two headed coconut tree in the resort,
several plastics of videoke coins, two alumni ex presidents of the
club, chess. and of course, it's the people who make a reatreat great.
to me it was the funnest of all retreats i've been to.
unfull-text:
to me it was the funnest of all retreats i've been to.
marc, me, and junjun rangas brought our laptops,
arne and aldwin (aolis boys) brought their whole computer sets,
arne including his big speakers,
i finally didn't forget to bring my two bicycles (one bmx, one mountain),
marc brought his expensive nice skateboard.
edmi brought their 1year old pickup
i drove our packed van with most of the computers, bicycles, aolis
boys and girl, and my cousin, josie
it was fun to making people happy, to making them laugh, entertaining
them with performances other than computer science stuff was just
personnaly fun for me. i think they'll listen to you more in class if
you both know how to skateboard, if you both know how to bike, if you
both like videokeing, if if if... it was fun fun fun, and superfun!
you would be impressed by how the officers setup the retreat with
minimal interference by the teachers. they only consulted us when
they had problems they couldn't solve themselves. i admire their
teamwork, organization, and their personnal feeling of responsibility
over the whole thing. they even came up with cute simple souvenirs at
the closing ceremony.
sir shem was speaker for opening ceremony.
ma'am kathy was speaker for Sabbath devotional.
sir glenson was speaker for sunday devotional.
and i spoke on the morning Sabbath session. i think i overspoke, hehe,
too much material in too little time, given to too-tired people.
compscis payed 450, non-compsci's payed 500. they were worrying about
how to convince people to pay the high price for the retreat and we
decided to promise them these interesting things about the retreat:
two-headed coconut tree, very nice resort, swimming pool, beach, bmx
riders, skateboarders, wire-walking, break dancing, videoke, hacker
stories, ok to bring laptops and pcs, counter-strike lanparty.
we forgot to do the AUP Hackers Stories.
the benefits i personnaly got from the retreat:
i understood more about dealing with students whom most people think
are problems to the group. i learned again that giving people
responsibility makes them more responsible. trusting people and
letting them solve problems by themselves makes them more think more
maturely. got to know more variety and depth of talents of our
students.
the obstacle race and the tug-of-war exercised us really much.
the compsci students and teachers are such tireless, talented,
responsible, good, and openminded people and i personally hope to help
influence them to dedicate all of nanoseconds and ergs of their first
life to serving God's interests. ¶ 5:00 AM
abstract:
imagine: 60 computer scientists, 1 bus, 1 pickup, 1 van, laptops, pcs,
wifi, lanparty, counterstrike, bicycles, skateboards, 1 plastic of
videoke tokens, survivor teams & programs, very nice artistically
designed resort, professional cafeteria cooks, devotionals, Sabbath
sessions, special food for vegetarians, 3 nice bean-shaped swimming
pools, beach, snorkling, and with special performance of Philippine
Acrobatic Team Member walking in wire, break dance acrobatics, tug of
war, surviror teams, wire-walking tutorial, mr&ms sariaya (our
version), obstacle race, two headed coconut tree in the resort,
several plastics of videoke coins, two alumni ex presidents of the
club, chess. and of course, it's the people who make a reatreat great.
to me it was the funnest of all retreats i've been to.
unfull-text:
to me it was the funnest of all retreats i've been to.
marc, me, and junjun rangas brought our laptops,
arne and aldwin (aolis boys) brought their whole computer sets,
arne including his big speakers,
i finally didn't forget to bring my two bicycles (one bmx, one mountain),
marc brought his expensive nice skateboard.
edmi brought their 1year old pickup
i drove our packed van with most of the computers, bicycles, aolis
boys and girl, and my cousin, josie
it was fun to making people happy, to making them laugh, entertaining
them with performances other than computer science stuff was just
personnaly fun for me. i think they'll listen to you more in class if
you both know how to skateboard, if you both know how to bike, if you
both like videokeing, if if if... it was fun fun fun, and superfun!
you would be impressed by how the officers setup the retreat with
minimal interference by the teachers. they only consulted us when
they had problems they couldn't solve themselves. i admire their
teamwork, organization, and their personnal feeling of responsibility
over the whole thing. they even came up with cute simple souvenirs at
the closing ceremony.
sir shem was speaker for opening ceremony.
ma'am kathy was speaker for Sabbath devotional.
sir glenson was speaker for sunday devotional.
and i spoke on the morning Sabbath session. i think i overspoke, hehe,
too much material in too little time, given to too-tired people.
compscis payed 450, non-compsci's payed 500. they were worrying about
how to convince people to pay the high price for the retreat and we
decided to promise them these interesting things about the retreat:
two-headed coconut tree, very nice resort, swimming pool, beach, bmx
riders, skateboarders, wire-walking, break dancing, videoke, hacker
stories, ok to bring laptops and pcs, counter-strike lanparty.
we forgot to do the AUP Hackers Stories.
the benefits i personnaly got from the retreat:
i understood more about dealing with students whom most people think
are problems to the group. i learned again that giving people
responsibility makes them more responsible. trusting people and
letting them solve problems by themselves makes them more think more
maturely. got to know more variety and depth of talents of our
students.
the obstacle race and the tug-of-war exercised us really much.
the compsci students and teachers are such tireless, talented,
responsible, good, and openminded people and i personally hope to help
influence them to dedicate all of nanoseconds and ergs of their first
life to serving God's interests. ¶ 5:00 AM