Commitment To The Group Experience

Intercultural Exchange involves a real interaction of the various elements that together form a culture: an exchange of different histories, religions, customs, traditions and languages.  “I learned how to dance spaghetti and ucho-ucho from children.  Sometimes when I dance spaghetti and ucho-ucho and I say Cebuano, they are laughing.  Most of Filipino really like dance and play and sing a song.  They look satisfy about their life eventhough they are poor and don’t have job.  It’s really impact to me.”  (Korean workcamper in December 2003, Philippines)

A part of the group experience is commitment to making decisions and solving problems together.  Orders are not issued from above, rather, the group discusses and guides, while the individuals decide.  “During the meeting time, some of campers have a good idea that so creative.  At that time I was really surprised and I learned what to do.  Every hard situation, most of campers want to try overcome.  I felt that moving heart.  Nobody complain, just they try to be adaptable.”  (Korean participant in Philippine camp 2004)

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