Thursday, July 07, 2005

I found my treasure even before the hunt began ...

Group Dynamics workshop is the name given to the annual 4 day outdoor event for first years at SP ,usually at lonavala ,a hill station near mumbai.

Day 1 / icebreaker day : By the time we reached our lodge it was late in the afternoon.We kicked off the icebreaker in th evening. Icebreaker was nothing but coming up with three small sized groups initially and then a larger group of size 9 ,where each one shared info about their life so far : fancies,whims,hobbies .....

Day 2 Trek + Treasure hunt: The trek to duke's nose was interesting , not too tough ,but then it was my first monsoon trek,so as you can imagine we were all wet, wet and wet by the time we were done with the trek!!

Treasure hunt was fun and engages your attention,but the setting was lovely,green fields,hills in the background,slight drizzle , a small hamlet in the background,well ... , i found my treasure even before the hunt began ...
Day 3: Assault , quite a misleading name , no assault rifles included ,just a few group games ,physical,strategical,tactical stuff ...
Day 4: Last day was for shopping ,which means buying truck loads of the famous 'chikki' and 'fudge'.One thing you can't miss in lonavala is the number of people surviving on the two food stuff ,all the prime locations in the bazaar were for the chikki and fudge shops.
I was wondering, the lonavala chikki story does make an interesting case study , intangibles,premium pricing and all the little i know about micro-economics.


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