Housecomm!!
October 20, 2010 @ 10:26 PM
so today was housecomm camp day1 and it was totally awesome. yeahyeah, we basically did alot of work (not alot but ahwell) summed up this year, feedback, planned next year, thought of new ideas and more efficient ways to get people to sign up for IHGs etcetc. sounds boring, non? but it really was awesome, for me at least. usually i would hate this sort of stuff, yes, but then again it's house, it's tarbet.
i guess the camp sorta started out awkwardly since we didn't really know each other... and especially us the teeny sec1s just didn't know what to say to the rest. so we just sorta stayed in our class in our groups with the people we're familiar with. but then after that the icebreakers and all, we started to loosen up and everything and we just got to know everyone's names at least. it wasn't much but we did up to a certain extent, bonded. and i think now we're way closer than we were before the camp.
and then after deciding on the theme for 2011 and talking abit about FOT we split up into individual comms to discuss. that really was very awesome. i mean, i didn't really know celine (tan) before this, i just knew she existed, i knew who she was and all, but i didn't know her personally, i didn't know anything about her. ayemon, better but not that well. but really after the discussion, and in fact during it, i felt really totally at home. i really felt that i belonged in this community, that i'm really a part of it. perhaps not the most important part, but i still can contribute. and after the discussion i felt that i just knew everyone there a little better, not much perhaps but at least the awkwardness was all gone. and there'll be plenty of opportunities in future too(:
really, camp today was definitely super fulfilling and enriching and fun :D i realised that there's way more to housecomm that i ever imagined, that we also have far more work to do than i thought. but then i've also become wayy more willing to do whatever it takes to make tarbet even awesomer, cos i really feel that i
belong. i've always said that house is a family to me, and now i feel that more than ever. of course being a housecommer also brings with it a certain amount of stress, work, responsiblity and burden. we have to really set a good example, and i never knew before today how much the house system actually relied on us housecommers. but i really think it's all worth it.
i love you tarbet! <3
