I.C.E. Club – Madagascar

We’ve brought some changes to the club after working on the members feedbacks during our break before the new year. We will start to apply them this coming Saturday by setting a team, from the members, to lead the meeting. Most of the changes are related to our weekly meetings, they aim at getting closer to what the members want and of course giving them chances to be up front.

From this coming Saturday then, a team, from the members will lead the whole meeting. Its mission is to find games, lead the discussion upon a topic that they normaly have chosen. We believe that belonging to a team will help a lot those who are still shy to face a whole bunch of crazy people lol. The team will have a leader and they will manage to share the works to do between them, like grown ups

The discussions will be divided into two parts. The members will be splited into small groups of 6 or 7 people. This is done to make the shy members more confident and talk. They will discuss a topic between them for 15mn and one of the leaders will make sure everybody in the group spoke. This is in the first part. In the second one, we will go back the general talk where everybody is invited to take part in.

The “presentations” already started in 2009 but we’ll have more this year. We’re scheduling three this month. Haingo, Lalah and Sambatra will respectively talk about “Travel”, “Video editing” and “How our brain works”. We will encourage all the members to make up their mind and present something they like to their peers.

The “English Saturday” will comeback and will be held every three months. We thought this frequency will give us much more time to have a better organization. And as usual we will invite other English clubs to join us during this event.

We hope will have more outings this year – something that cruelly lacked us in 2009 – but it will mainly depend on the (political) situation in Madagascar. We won’t take any risk when safety of the members is not sure.

That’s all we can say about news in the club. Other projects and proposals from the members are still on the we-are-thinking-of-it state, they need more reflexion.