EB Teambuilding

What? great, funny, special, OUR Teambuilding
When? 14th and 15th of June
Where? hmm somewhere in Styria (nice green land :)), near to Gleinstätten, a small village called Prarath (I think...)
Who? EB = Rainer, Anna, Stefan, Luci, Georg and Walter
Facis: Maggie and Matthias
Why? why not?? ;)


Ok, now you have the most important information, but what happened on these 2 days? Why is it called teambuilding and not only a trip?

After a teambuilding, you have to get to know your team better and also to take some information with you at home. You have to be able to work with these people, to have fun together and to see you as a team and not as 6 individuals trying to plan next year.

Is this what happened at our Teambuilding? have a look...

On Saturday, we met a little bit later (do not forget, there was transition party on Friday), we took 2 cars and started our teambuilding. In few minutes, I already learned something from my LCP: when you are driving through the highway, you have to take the small Austrian flags from your windows down, cause they would not survive this (you see: new info for me). After one hour, we arrived to "our" house: really big, cool, with garden!!

We started with small (but challenging) games: to hit a bottle with a soccer ball, to run between some stuff and play soccer....
But then, the real teambuilding started. Thanks to Maggie, who prepared really cool games for us, to get to know each other, to build trust between us and to see, why being one team is important for us.


The funny thing was, that exactly on this day, there was a big event in the village called: Firefighter-event/party/celebration (I dont know...). That means great healthy food, even greater music (tradition Austrian music), cool village people that know each other, so we were as aliens there :)


In the evening, we also watched the soccer game. Not all, some of us slept out the transition party, some of us made a long discussion about the color of the (sorry for this explanation guys) socks for soccer players ("Stutzen")
Afterwards we continued with teambuilding and we also played UNO and watched some funny animation movies.

On Sunday, the big day for LC Graz came. We made (started) the planning for our term.
Maybe not an easy task, but a really important one. This was also the first prove, if we are able to work together. If we are able, you will see when we present our planning :)

We went through some important points as a statement, principals and finally we decided on our goals and focus areas.

After the way home, we discussed a lot and Anna, who was sitting in a car with 3 guys also know now, how important is a good steak for our male part of EB :)
Really want to thanx to Maggie and Matthias to be facilitators and to give us their knowledge, to have fun with us and to prepare for us a cool weekend, thanx to Rainer for "raising" a cool house and to the whole EB for being there :)

And now, we - the new EB - are prepared to start our term!!

- luci -