13 candidates from 6 cities and 11 volunteer staff members took part in the first ever Raleigh China assessment weekend in Shanghai. Here is an update from Garrison Lu, Raleigh China's CEO:
‘We chose a training facility at the foot of Sheshan Mountain of Shanghai as our base( it is not a high hill , but it is the only hill we can find in Shanghai ), The Camp Chief , Logistics Officer and myself as the Supervisor arrived early to make logistics arrangements ,and Joe and the Admin , photographer, 2 Team Chiefs and 2 Assistant Team Chiefs along with all the candidates trekked an hour from the light rail station to the base, when they arrived, we had two big campfires which creates some kind of tough sense to welcome them, shortly after the briefing speech by me, the candidates were rushed to cook dinner for themselves in the dark, they managed to make some! We were a little surprised to find that these young Chinese do have the heart for great challenges!
In the morning, I gave them some briefings about Raleigh and Expeditions, also our Gansu project, a lot of valuable questions were raised and we provided answers for each. Then the two teams, A1 and A2 were taken into a food hunting for lunch, each team had to search for 20 plastic tags with rice, vegetables, sauce, salt etc written on them, in different assigned areas.
We also ran other small tasks, and before each task, a team leader, a motivator, a safety must came out of the team, and de-briefing time was given after each task, the team chiefs carried out their duties well, they brought to the board room quite accurate observations about each candidate, and our photographer Lannie provided Raleigh ID photos for the assessment meeting.
At the end of this 22hrs event, we gave an awarding ceremony, based on their current ability and potential, we awarded them with different certificates of venturers and volunteer staff.'
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