Name: Nina
Age: 24
Participated in Leadership Seminar: in 2004 (participant) and as facilitator in 2005-2007
How did you learn about work camps and MS?
I always travelled a lot since I was a teenager, e.g. in “language school” and a Rotary stay. I wanted to try something else and my mom told me about workcamps. After my first workcamp I met a girl in my taek-wondo club that told me about the Leader Training Seminar and that I really should try it. So I did.
What work camp experience do you have?
Partipating in a work camp in Liuthania 2000, working with kids. Particpated in a workcamp 10 days in Japan 2005, the work was to harvest organic vegetables.
Leader of a workcamp in Denmark 2006. The project was to build a picnic cottage in a recreative area.
How did you experience being a work camp leader?
Challenging! And fun! I learned a lot about myself from the “sparring” with my co-leader. I also learned a lot from taking part in the building project, “I am almost a carpenter now”. Surprising how different kind of people you meet in a work camp.
What did you gain from being a work camp leader?
A great friendship with my co-leader (Per, who is also facilitator here at the ILTS07). I got experience with my own abilities as leader and how to act in different problematic situations which is useful for me since I am studying to become a schoolteacher. Besides that, it is really cool to have the power to tell other people to clean the toilets and that kind of tasks…. (laughs)
Which challenges did you face being a work camp leader?
Normally I am a tolerant person but being together in the same place with a small group of 14 people was challenging for my tolerance. It was challenging and tough to be together with a bunch of very different people and at the same time being responsible for we finished the building project and that the social life of the group was ok.
Do you have any advice for future work camp leaders?
Just do it! Do not be afraid to be underqualified and have trust in your self. Remember to use your co-leader as a “sparring partner” and remember you are not alone, but also have a co-leader. And remember to have fun!
How do you like the colour green?
It is the colour of hope, (she says while she is wearing a green shirt).
Things you didn’t know about Nina:
She is faster than anybody else at eating “lakrids” shoelaces...
Age: 24
Participated in Leadership Seminar: in 2004 (participant) and as facilitator in 2005-2007
How did you learn about work camps and MS?
I always travelled a lot since I was a teenager, e.g. in “language school” and a Rotary stay. I wanted to try something else and my mom told me about workcamps. After my first workcamp I met a girl in my taek-wondo club that told me about the Leader Training Seminar and that I really should try it. So I did.
What work camp experience do you have?
Partipating in a work camp in Liuthania 2000, working with kids. Particpated in a workcamp 10 days in Japan 2005, the work was to harvest organic vegetables.
Leader of a workcamp in Denmark 2006. The project was to build a picnic cottage in a recreative area.
How did you experience being a work camp leader?
Challenging! And fun! I learned a lot about myself from the “sparring” with my co-leader. I also learned a lot from taking part in the building project, “I am almost a carpenter now”. Surprising how different kind of people you meet in a work camp.
What did you gain from being a work camp leader?
A great friendship with my co-leader (Per, who is also facilitator here at the ILTS07). I got experience with my own abilities as leader and how to act in different problematic situations which is useful for me since I am studying to become a schoolteacher. Besides that, it is really cool to have the power to tell other people to clean the toilets and that kind of tasks…. (laughs)
Which challenges did you face being a work camp leader?
Normally I am a tolerant person but being together in the same place with a small group of 14 people was challenging for my tolerance. It was challenging and tough to be together with a bunch of very different people and at the same time being responsible for we finished the building project and that the social life of the group was ok.
Do you have any advice for future work camp leaders?
Just do it! Do not be afraid to be underqualified and have trust in your self. Remember to use your co-leader as a “sparring partner” and remember you are not alone, but also have a co-leader. And remember to have fun!
How do you like the colour green?
It is the colour of hope, (she says while she is wearing a green shirt).
Things you didn’t know about Nina:
She is faster than anybody else at eating “lakrids” shoelaces...
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