I survived that day… you probably wouldn’t have guess what I did. I was walking on thin wire 50 fts up on the air. No, serious…literally, I was up so high in the air and just one word I can describe it, that is “Petrified”. I visited the Odyssey course with one of our director and my other co-worker sometime ago, came to ask all the details and check out the course, and went back and convince the whole team to participate in this program as our team building activity.

 
So, what is “Team UP”? It is a high ropes course which stands 50 feet tall and stretches 360 feet long. A high ropes challenge course, that has three towers and two levels, which provides teams and groups of all kinds the opportunity to participate in teambuilding experience led by trained facilitators. I must went insane to think it would be a piece of cake for me since it didn’t look that scary from the ground. I was wrong… I will always remember THE DAY.

We started off by doing some games on the ground and got used to some team building techniques and strategy, and did the walk on the wire in the ground school. So far so good..only little glitch, while I was trying to tap on the director during the game, he fall, and I fall over him, but for some reason, most of the people thought I push him down. Bad start, the rumors soon spread quickly in the office. =P (I swear I’m innocent)

  
Then we got our gears ready and start to climb on the giant cargo net to reach the starting tree house for the first level of the rope course. My whole body froze as soon as I need to step my feet on the wire and hook my lobster claws on the wire. There were many game rules that we need to follow and we were giving no instruction about how to get across from point A to point B.. each group need to came up with a game plan to help each team mate across.. First level took us about 2 hours and all the team members survive the first level without any injury. In the afternoon, only six of us wanted to continue and finish the second level..more then 50% drop out rate.. haha.. and I think I just went mad and wanted to finish the whole course regardless how much I was afraid of height.

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I think this was a great experience for the whole group, and something very unusual that I would do once in my life time. Thanx to Team Up, it brought many of us a lot more closer and also gave us a chance to see the other side of the team.

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