Orientation 2016 in a nutshell!

     Orientation is one of those events that we've been planning for ever since the first quarter, or well at least mentioned since first quarter. This Orientation was successful, there were things we could've improved on, specifically me with my banner. Other than that it was great and speeches got better as the orientation days went on and on. The tour was solo'd by me and I was accompanied by Matthew and just in case I forgot something he would remind me, but he only had to remind me of something once and then all the other times I had it. The fashion show was amazing and pretty good, but the grease lightning timing could've been superb but it wasn't quite. 

      Highlights and Lowlights: The fact that we could show the sixth graders how Ilima is and letting them see how the school works, it was just so fun. I'd say another highlight is that with this Orientation, we're probably changing students minds about whether or not they would want to join Ilima instead of another school like Ewa Makai or even Waipahu. A lowlight is that for parent orientation, Matthew forgot to hold up Deriecka's sign and Kaya had to take his place. Another lowlight is that it was most likely our banner that was the one that couldn't be handled properly so we gotta take that as a lesson.

     Lesson learned from Orientation: In order to succeed, you must have cooperation with everyone and work together on things. This Orientation was a great way to teach us that. Everyone had a role to play in order to make this successful, and we needed everyone in this to make it work. Like the people who taught us dances, the people who had speeches and even the people who were just visible in the fashion show. We needed each of them to make this click and that's what made this so special.

     One thing that we could improve on is timing. When I say timing I don't just mean queues, I mean times leading up to this. We could've taken more time to work on the tour and finished dances and banners so much sooner than it should've been. The amount of time decreased should've been that Mr. Ing could make changes to Orientation without him having to worry about the changes being too soon and won't interfere with Orientation plans so far or it being a disaster.