On the 23rd to 25th of November we went to the Dudmaston Residential dorms just 5 minutes from Bridgnorth. We arrived on the Friday night at 7.30 pm. As soon as we got there sing star was out and Nick was already trying to beat Jay but never won.
On the Saturday after an early wake up call we started the day with team building exercises led by Tony and Mel where we learnt each others name. We all joined in on all of the activities even when some of them were out of our comfort zone. Each activity both in the morning and afternoon needed a team leader which we all had a go at, sometimes we were good at this but others we weren’t. During the Saturday morning we were split into two groups as there were two activities to be done. The first was like a human minesweeper game as we had to get from one side of the squares to the other and each time we landed on a mine we had to move back to the beginning the same way we came, after many attempts both teams achieved it. The second activity was to come in to a marked out shape with squares with numbers on. Our activity was to tread on all of the squares in number order (1-30). Both teams were five seconds off the time limit which was 1 minute.
After Lunch we had to put blind folds on, the aim of this game was to get 6 of the same shape and the same colour, as one of our senses were taken away this proved very difficult but after 45 minutes of arguing we finally finished.
Once our activities had finished we started arranging the disco and talking about W.Y.A.T. taking over the youth club. A lot of positive comments came from our discussion.
On the Sunday, after another rude awakening we had another member join our group – this was Frank who was the dog of one of the instructors. Again we had more activities, we walked over 3 miles and completed several activities on the walk these included working as a team and other activities where we split into more than one team.
Overall the weekend went well and we had some good points that we need to improve on and some that we were excellent on. A big thank you to Mel, Tony and Frank who helped us achieve the activities and made the weekend enjoyable for all of us.
By Chris Smith
