Debrief & Report Writing (Vacation)

Debrief & Report writing
1.Theoretical Training
## The strong points is that it helps the students to interpret things better. More theory would be good, because then you have more stuff to talk about.
## The challenges is to remember everything you learn.
## I learned a lot of stuff that I used on my game drives and bush expedition.
## Improve by doing the practical directly after the theory.

2.Roster
## It helped allot in organizing the students in the workplace.
## There was no challenges regarding the roster.
## Learned to make my own roster by looking at the one given to us.
## Make the roster more simple.

3.Welcoming
## Helps to build people skills and communication skills.
## Challenges is to work with different guests and difficult guests.
## I learned lots of communicating skills and how to handle guests according to their expectations.
## Better communication between students.

4.Conservation
## Working in the bush is fun and it gives you experience on all the dangerous stuff like the brush cutters, gives you a bit more responsibility.
## Working long hours in the sun is hard.
## learned to work with brush cutters, repair the roads and control erosion.
## It sometimes feel as if we are doing cheap labour, because if you have done something and you do it again you don’t gain any experience out of it!

5.Wildlife Centre
## Working with the animals is fun.
## Getting the rhinos from one cage to the other.
## Learned how to feed the animals, make bottles for them and clean their cages.
## Give the students other things to do, and not the same stuff over and over again.

6.Guiding
## Talking to guests and giving them interesting information.
## Trying to give information to a guest that already know everything about the nature.
## To talk on game drives and to work with foreign guests.
## Give students more opportunity to do guiding and gain experience.

7. Student on Duty
## I haven’t yet had the chance to be student on duty.

8. After hours Activities
## Bring and braai is okay except if you work long hours.
## Getting the meat perfect so that the guest is satisfied.
## How to Social better with people I don’t know.
## Put more Hotel and Lodge students in that department.

9. Academy Duty.
## I haven’t yet had the chance to do Academy Duty.

10. Social
## Talking and communicating.
## Talk to complete strangers.
## Talking with strangers and getting to know them.
## Have more Socials to develop your social skills.

Gamedrives (10-11 April)

I worked on game drives this weekend and learned how to work better with the guest and how to interact with them on a vehicle.
It was lots of fun to do the tractor game drives and it is very helpful in gaining more personal skills because you have to work with a lot of people at a time and keep everyone happy.

I learned how to approach different people just by looking at their body language and looking at their field of interest.
This weekend was the end of the 1st school vacation and I think it was a great success!

Brush Cutters course 6 April

Today we had a crash course on how to handle and repair the Brush cutters,we also learned how to use them safely so that nobody gets hurt!
We also wrote a test and we are going to get a certificate to show that we are capable of handling and using brush cutters safely.
The Brush Cutter looks like a wheat eater, except that it has a steal blade infront that is used for cutting small bushes and grasses.like khaki-bush for example.