Susi Dariah_Reflection of MMSEL Project

Reflection of MMSEL project

For me, this MMSEL project is the most challenging project I ever done. It is because of the purpose of the project is to motivate people. The thing is we don’t only design the activity but also we have to implement and encourage the target to achieve what we designed. In fact, it was quite difficult for me. The challenges came up from both of the participant and also my project group.

Since the targets also have their own expectations, their own business, it was quite difficult to ask them join the first activity which is English Motivation Sharing. Actually, the first activity is the most important part because that is the moment in which we encourage participant to have awareness that practicing English speaking is very important for our career. In fact, we didn’t successfully encourage many target participants to be involved in this project. However, the motivation sharing was really means for me, I think whereas the participant is not as many as we targeted but the sharing was successfully motivate the participant. From the speakers, I learn many things. The first one is from the experience that Kak Namirah shared, I realize that I need to make a big effort to achieve what I want. Besides, I really like what Mrs. Yannik said in the motivation sharing, it is “if we want to do something, we will find the way to do that, but if we don’t want to do something, we will find excuses to avoiding it”. It is very nice experience for having collaborative project with Mrs. Yannik and  Kak Namirah. I am very grateful for having such family like them. They are very kind in helping us. They are really great with their competency and their humilities.

However, I feel that there are still some aspects in this project implementation that should be improved such as the communication of the group member. I feel we still lack of the effective communication. I think even though we have decided the task of each member, we still need to communicate all of things related to our project. Then, I feel that it was not going well, I found some of us taking a decision without discussing the problem with the group. Furthermore, I also feel that we still lack of self belonging to this project. Thus, it impacts to the initiative of the group member. I am not sure if the reason is because we have many project task then I feel my group is not fully focus to this project. The thing is I feel I am not doing the best in this project because I didn’t have the good cooperation with my group. However, the most important is I learn all of it from this project then I will not letting the next project becomes less of self belonging from the group member.

Besides, I am really happy because there are some participants who said that the project was really good. They said that they are motivated and the project gave them opportunities to practice their English. They are also enthusiast to continue the program. It is a nice respond and being a motivation for me to continue this project for more friends.