Orientation – week 2 – Team building
Hi This isn’t just my first SWEAT blog but it’s my first ever blog! My first blog should be a good one because I get to write about week two of orientation! If you haven’t checked out Allie’s post about ‘Hell Week’ then make sure you do! It was a great week of team building. We joined our new friends from ‘Year of training‘ (Jubilee training centre in Maidstone). It was exciting not knowing what we were going to be doing each day. It was fun-filled week with too many activities to mention. I’ll tell you my favourites. We had to roll...
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Wow! What an introduction to S.W.E.A.T! We set off in the bus to Trencreek, near Camelford on Sunday afternoon, full of excitement and nervous intrepidation! When we arrived we met up with the Y.O.T. guys and gals from Maidstone and were given our room allocations. We were woken up “early” for our first session of Physical Training and boy did we train! We were stretched to our max in teams and individually, carrying out various exercises for a number of hours! The “black shirt” leaders were tough on us but really helped us to push ourselves to our limits with a huge...
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Hey everyone my first SWEAT blog is going to be about the second week of orientation so if you haven’t already you could take a look Bernie’s blog, which is on ‘hell week’ the first week of orientation, to get some context. So I will take you through three of the activities of this week. One of these was ‘solitary’; which entailed us spending a day as individuals in a forest, build our own shelters and get in touch with ourselves and God. For me personally I did enjoy just getting a bit of time to myself and building the shelter was fun too. Soon...
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Well, here is my 1st Blog. We actually started orientation in September. After a short journey into darkest Cornwall, we met up with our fellow students from Maidstone. On the Monday at 3am it started. We were awakened to be outside in 10mins – like good Christians we were. As the eldest on the course, and with a few medical problems I was not allowed to do too much physical exercise, but I was allowed to carry a tyre. I got attached to it in the end. The rumour was we got engaged!! Dawn it’s not true!! However, on the Tuesday night, we were sent for a wee walk at approx 11pm and...
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South West Equipping and Training (SWEAT) is a Christian run leadership training school based in Plymouth. With a focus on character development we offer a one year accredited course for people over 18 who want to further develop their leadership skills. Our heart is to bring people to the South West to train and for them to return to their places of work, churches and families as strong leaders with solid characters.