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.