Team-building
The 2nd day of Zabinki is all about team-building, meaning all kinds of team games in order to allow the participants to get to know each other and to help integrate. Campers are previously divided into groups (as nationally diversified as possible).
Attitudes towards team building activities differ: innovative, outdated, splendid, childish, boring. Let’s face it: not everyone sees the point in an obstacle race, hula-hopping, crawling on the ground, a race around the bottle – all in order to get the first prize: a Pikachu mascot. Team-building activities have always been very popular and the day on which they are held is one of the best during the camp. It is amazing to see a group of strangers who, at the end of a day filled with such diverse challenges, become a team of which all members are equally important and respectful of each other. Even the old-timers of Zabinki – those, who have gone through all these activities many times previously and are fully aware of the absurdity and triviality of some activities, join in the fun. They know it is not all about winning, but rather about getting to know people in your team, remember their names, breaking the ice. Moreover, those who go through the team-building day for the first time do enjoy it!
Later in the evening on team-building day, the campers have the opportunity of a real Zabinki experience. The teams are supposed to present on stage the results of tasks that were given to them earlier that day: constructing a raft, presenting a puppet show or a fashion show, shooting a movie (asoap opera or a horror movie), creating Zabinki song and dance, etc. The clubroom by that time is turned into a cinema (with only popcorn missing), a catwalk with models (who don’t do any worse than professionals), and a ballroom where everyone learns the steps of the dance created by one of the teams.
The originality and ingeniousness of these tasks reveal the outstanding creativity of the participants. During the construction of the raft a film is shot depicting the entire team hammering away and toiling by the sweat of their brows, and later, a rescue action in which the raft is used. The puppet theatre amazes not only with the originality of the stories told, but also the panache with which the puppets themselves are made, especially considering the scarcity of resources available. The soap opera contains a number of obligatory elements typical of a TV series. There are opening credits from „The Bold and the Beautiful”, there is background music, costumes, make-up, a storyline to match and credits at the end that include acknowledgements for sponsors of the production. Some campers managed to go down in history (and not only in the history of Zabinki!) with their brilliant stage interpretations.
In 2007, Hedwyn Nixon De Cevier from Wales (or simply Chewy), played the part of the main character in a horror movie shot during the team-building day. This role has guaranteed him a place in the oral tradition and all annals of Zabinki. See the film!
See the gallery of Team-building.
Attitudes towards team building activities differ: innovative, outdated, splendid, childish, boring. Let’s face it: not everyone sees the point in an obstacle race, hula-hopping, crawling on the ground, a race around the bottle – all in order to get the first prize: a Pikachu mascot. Team-building activities have always been very popular and the day on which they are held is one of the best during the camp. It is amazing to see a group of strangers who, at the end of a day filled with such diverse challenges, become a team of which all members are equally important and respectful of each other. Even the old-timers of Zabinki – those, who have gone through all these activities many times previously and are fully aware of the absurdity and triviality of some activities, join in the fun. They know it is not all about winning, but rather about getting to know people in your team, remember their names, breaking the ice. Moreover, those who go through the team-building day for the first time do enjoy it!
Later in the evening on team-building day, the campers have the opportunity of a real Zabinki experience. The teams are supposed to present on stage the results of tasks that were given to them earlier that day: constructing a raft, presenting a puppet show or a fashion show, shooting a movie (asoap opera or a horror movie), creating Zabinki song and dance, etc. The clubroom by that time is turned into a cinema (with only popcorn missing), a catwalk with models (who don’t do any worse than professionals), and a ballroom where everyone learns the steps of the dance created by one of the teams.
The originality and ingeniousness of these tasks reveal the outstanding creativity of the participants. During the construction of the raft a film is shot depicting the entire team hammering away and toiling by the sweat of their brows, and later, a rescue action in which the raft is used. The puppet theatre amazes not only with the originality of the stories told, but also the panache with which the puppets themselves are made, especially considering the scarcity of resources available. The soap opera contains a number of obligatory elements typical of a TV series. There are opening credits from „The Bold and the Beautiful”, there is background music, costumes, make-up, a storyline to match and credits at the end that include acknowledgements for sponsors of the production. Some campers managed to go down in history (and not only in the history of Zabinki!) with their brilliant stage interpretations.
In 2007, Hedwyn Nixon De Cevier from Wales (or simply Chewy), played the part of the main character in a horror movie shot during the team-building day. This role has guaranteed him a place in the oral tradition and all annals of Zabinki. See the film!
See the gallery of Team-building.
