Mooncake Festival and Culture Night

     This activity brings a lot of  impacts on the development of students’ Graduate attributes. Discussion and communication can help me to develop my communication skills. My team members and my leaders can understand me and our goal could be achieved earlier if the communication skills are sharpened. I always use simple, understandable and effective sentences to deliver my major messages to keep the meeting short and reduce time consumption. My communication skills are improved especially when discussing my team members on how to plan a good program schedule. Practice makes perfect. When there is more communication and discussion with my team members, I will more understand his or her personality and practice different communication styles with different people. Mature communication skills will strengthen and improve the relationship between me and my team members. 

     During the stage of event planning and props making, I realize that problem solving is a major topic in this situation. Luckily, my thinking skills are quite good so I manage to solve lots of problems in preparing materials for the opening ceremony of the mooncake festival. At the same time, I have to create a new idea of the products making and decide on what to select on making that product or what to replace if something is missing. Things have to be completed in groups so that they can be completed faster and effectively. The task distribution and communication are good in developing leadership and teamwork skills. When I was suggesting the task distribution and helping other team members to have a clearer mindset, I am developing my leadership and teamwork skills. 

     The challenges I faced is my work-study life is not balanced and inadequate sleep. I overcome the problems by making a schedule to manage my time. This is to make sure that I have enough sleep and energetic to complete all of the assigned activities. Next, I train my mind to think positively and I believe that all of the assigned tasks could be completed on time as long as I try my best.