Service
Charity Art Club Installation Artwork
The name of this event is called 2021. For this event, we gathered 30 CAC members to make a big installation artwork, the artwork is composed of 28 papers, each member will take 1 A3 paper and make an artwork about a social issue they want to explore, we gave members 25 social issues and they could sign up for the topic that they were interested in. Although this is not a big project, I encountered some problems but it helped me grow a lot.
problems: as we are making this project, we also recruited 7 new executives, and on the first new exec meeting, things were a little bit awkward, the atmosphere was not really good, and I also assigned them jobs on their first day here which is a terrible decision. I felt like I gave them a lot of pressure. Another problem is we implemented a structure for executives, in which it is seperated into three branches – Activity coordinator, social media, designer, I wanted one old executive to be in one of these branches and guide the new executives through our every event. However, it wasn’t sucesful on the first day, after reflecting, I realized that the problem was I only told the old executives to teach them, but I didn’t TEACH the old executives how to teach the new executives, so I gave the old execs a really detailed guide on how to do everything and what they are suppsed to do in each meeting. In the second executive meeting, everything worked out very good.
Another problem I encountered was that on the first member meeting, only 10-15 people came but a lot of them did not inform us about their absence, it was really upsetting. After the meeting, the execs held a quick reflection meeting, we reflected on why people wouldn’t come and made some adjustments:
- We rearranged the chair and tables, made them into groups so people could feel more comfortable. It also allowed them to talk to their friends which made them feel less pressure from us seniors.
- We put lofi music as background
- We didn’t walk around like we were checking their artworks, instead, the execs sit in a group and also worked on their own artworks like they are apart of the members.
- We turned of the light to make the atmosphere more comfortable.
- Send email on friday and send a reminder email on Monday to remind members to meet.
Finally, on the second and third meeting, we got 30+ members in the classroom.
I would consider Sep as the hardest month for me (both club and academic) there was a time where I was extremely upset in myself and my abilities to manage a club, and there was one instance when I cried in front of the execs, but after that incidence, I actually realized how great this club is, the execs were all super devoted into this club, everyone put their best effort into everything despite how busy they were. As a leader, I made a lot of changes to myself and the club, and I am really happy to see the growth. I am looking forward to more challenges in the future and hope that I can improve more on leadership.
Creativity
I finally achieved my goal for my sports science blog, I reached 500 followers. So I made a simple post on my blog to celebrate this moment.
Activity
It’s almost basketball season, so I strated training. I started by doing rehabs and light intensity exercise because I haven’t trained for a while so my knees would be very weak for any exercise, for my arm, I got a chronic damage in my tendon so I had to keep doing rehab. Throughout this process, I’ve learned the lesson of patience, I hated doing rehabs and I hated the feeling of “building” things back to where I originally was, but I had to keep doing these boring exercises because if it went too intense, my tendon would never heal and I could injure myself again.