Again, I must say, being a group leader is not as easy as you see... Really, it's very difficult to be a group leader for an orientation group, which we even don't know the members inside... We must remember them one by one, recognize them and their habits, be close to them, and keep them cheerful along the orientation camp...Ya, some say that being a group leader looks so easy... Group leader just need to cheer, cheer, and cheer... Yeah, right, we do lots of cheers in front you all, but you actually don't know what we have to do beyond your sight...Some say that group leaders are the stars of the show... Others worked behind the scene along the preparation and group leaders are the actors and actresses... Some may be thinking that what an easy job group leaders have, and plus, they will get recognized by all the members of their orientation groups...But, I tell you, there's something you don't understand about the 'being-a-group-leader' matter...Ya, I admit it... I know that being group leaders looks like selfishly occupying the stage for our own... We know all the freshies the most and freshies know us the most... We have the authority to decide when to cheer, when to keep silent, when to walk faster, when to slow down and take photos, what game to do next, and blablabla... We, the group leaders, have such an authority...But, besides that pride, if you want me to call it like that, the group leaders have lots of burden on their shoulders... Yeah, right... Life is not that smooth and is not that beautiful... If lots of people say, every cloud has a silver lining, in this case, I will say, every fine cloud has a chance to fire a lightning...First of all, to be a group leader, all candidates had to go through a different state of recruitment... When other portfolios just required a short interview, all group-leader-wanna-be had to go for an audition... In this audition, you needed to show to others (all the audiences) that you were worthed... You could make all eyes turned to you and you had a good voice to scream... Yeah, of course, all group-leader-wanna-be had to show that they had no more shyness...Then, all chosen group leaders had to increase their courage to be crazy, and crazy, and crazy... We had to perform some crazy things due to the fund raising of the orientation camp... And I have to tell you, in this state, I felt that I was lost... I wasn't a kind of person that could sacrifice all the image I had got... And, yeah, I felt very much burdens along this first two steps...Do you still think that being a group leader is easy?Okay, another barrier will appear soon...Maybe there were not much things to do after the fund raising, but after getting the list of freshies, we suddenly got a bunch of jobs to do... We had to gather all the group members, do an introduction (which was done for more than five times---everytime a new person came, we repeated it---Omigod), play some games in order to build a strong bond among members, teach all freshies about the cheers, think about a new and original cheers, prepare the OG introduction and junior performance, made all attributes for the group (even pay for it), and keep their spirit up about the orientation camp... Yeah, it was very hard to do, actually... For several times, I thought of resigning, quitting, or anything you call it... I was very tired, very very tired... It was very hard to arrange the time of meeting that would not affect the freshies, also would not affect the schedule of group leader's meeting...And when the day came, it seemed much harder... We, as the group leaders, had to keep the spirit of GTD firing, but, on the other hand, when we did lots of cheers, the other committees complained to us that we couldn't control our group... Oh my God, what the hell did the want actually? Then, we had a duty to keep on the time line, so we pushed our freshies to walk faster, walk faster, and walk faster... But, when we came to the post earlier, the committee said that we couldn't keep the time tracking... Oh my God, again, what thing did they deserve from us actually? And when the time line went too far, and all dragged away from the planning, we couldn't complain... we had to solve the freshies-want-to-go-home problem by ourselves... So, you can see, it looked like, all GTD problems are on group leaders' shoulders... We were not that big to accept that giant matter...
Yeah, I hope you know now, what was the thing that made us think twice to be a group leader again...
But, really, until all this long, I didn't regret about my decision... I got a more precious things than all I had sacrificed... I got love from my group...
Group leader...
It is nice to remember, but not that nice to return...
GarGOYANG...
U're the best I've ever had
~FeN~
Cupid is flying around Indo-NTU students and he is trying to shoot people's hearts...
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