Norval Whaa-Whoo.

Norval is a place where most, if not all Middle School children go to do activities and stuff that you may not know about until the last second. A simple way to describe teamwork: two or more people working together in unison. Teamwork is usually a hard thing to achieve. Imagine if you are living on a unmapped island and there is no one else but you and all of your enemies. You sort of have to work together and put aside your differences if you want to survive, but that is beyond the point. If it is either someone’s life depending on you, or finishing an important project then you sort of need teamwork to do it.

I thought that Norval was just the same as Grade 7. It wasn’t that bad. It could be better in my opinion. I do have a suggestion: play sports that require teamwork and planning. Like hockey or soccer for an example. It isn’t like me saying that all the activities are horrible, they are good, except that naval ship wall that was difficult. Then there was the part where Aureon fell off the wall, that must have hurt. Overall it was ok.

One of our events that we did was the Inuit blanket toss. It was an event where we all worked together to throw someone in the air. Everyone had a turn, when I did it I was thinking that this was one of my patented “WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING???!!!!” moments. Then we did this other event where we had separate teams at ropes and we pulled and let go of the ropes to direct a person to four small balls on the ground. Then we did this naval ship wall activity I mentioned on paragraph 2, where we had to lift people over a wall. Where all we had to lift people up was ourselves. The first few people weren’t difficult, but as people got heavier it was harder.

Norval is a good place to work on team building skills. I believe that the Middle School should keep going there.

Teamwork is one of the most important things ever. So it is a great thing that we go there and practice.