Living in a Wardli

For the last 3 weeks of camp I will be living in the wardli with Jack Sullivan, Nick Karalis, Chris Karageorges, Harry Barnes, Harrison Marks and Angus crawford.

Highs
-Making new friends
-Sleeping in a bed
-Food
-Independance
-Funny moments
-Skills for future
-Freedom
-Cooking
-Warm showers
-Having a clock

Challenges
-Living with people who are lazy
-Keeping wardli clean
-Doing the washing
-Cleaning up after others
-Solving problems
-Waking up early
-Going to sleep early
-Eating what you dont like
-Not having a say
-Having to sleep with snoarers

In the wardi I see myself as a friendly guy and I am usually tidy. Somethings I would like to improve on is having shorter showers, helping my mates more, be more active and sort problems out with mates. Some habits I dont like include not opening the toilet window after using it and snoaring which doesnt let people sleep. Some skills I would like to improve during the camp is mopping which I find very difficult to do and doing the dishes which is also hard and boaring. These are the things that I would definetly need for my future benefit.

A big issue that occured in our wardli was definetely mopping. It was the hardest and longest job and no one was happy when it was their turn to do the mopping. One problem was that one individual went home sick in our wardli so someone always had to fill in for that person. We mostly argued about whos doing the mopping but we sorted this out by having one person mop and another person sweeping. Another issue included showers. Usually everybody didnt have time to have showers in the morning and their was no certain order of doing this.Usually the person first to the shower would have the privallidge while the last person missed out and had to find spare time for this. The way we solved this was we sat down with Paul and he said it would be a good idea to split the shower groupings in day and night. He suggested that 3 should go at night and 3 in the morning. Our wardli then suggested that the slower people would have their showers at night because it would be a hold up in the morining becuase we have a lot to do. Our last issue was arguing. When ever someone didnt do something correctly it always ended up in a massive arguement. Even the littlest thing turned out into a huge arguement. To solve this we had a method of sitting down and talking calmly and if only one person had a problem then it wasnt a issue, but if about three people had then we talked about it and then it was agreed. This method was very good as we all had a say in what we think didnt work and what we need to improve on.

The experience at wambana has taught me how much my mum works at the house hold at home and I have realised that I have to now do alot more at home. I also think this had benefited on our future skills because many boys this age will not have the chance to live on their own. Living with 6 other boys at this early on in our life will give us skills if we are going to share a house in the future.