Seems that my last post hit quite a nerve – Jens made his blog protected and I’ve suddenly got more KPs coming out of the woodwork. My hits have jumped heavily in the last few days too.
Hey, nothing is free from criticism. When I travelled with Up with People (or even before I started) we all faced a hell of a lot of criticism just because of UWP’s reputation and history. And there were things that could have been done better. But it was still the best time of my life. Just because something’s attracted some negativity doesn’t make it totally bad. No one’s gonna like everything.
I just wished that the feedback was more constructive. If you disagree, that’s great. (I had a friend take down a post because I disagreed with his logic and points. Nothing against him, just his rhetoric. He somehow took it as a “personal attack” and then took it down because he thought I was offended. Wha? Disagreement doesn’t mean censorship! But anyway.)
The point of my last point was that the core substance of the KaosPilots seems to be lost in between all the party pictures and the “woo, foreign country!”. If you know where the substance is, show it! Give me links, references, contacts. Tell me about the stuff you’re doing. I want to know, many others want to know too. Share that energy! We want to share in it too! But we can’t do that if we don’t see it.
In semi-related news: can anyone translate this Danish blog entry? My boyfriend, and a web translator, had a go at it and all we can work out is that this guy went to his company’s teambuilding workshop for 3 weeks, which involved a KaosPilot, and it was totally fluffy and useless. But we don’t know if that is actually what he wrote. So a Danish to English translation would be good.
La de da! The closing date for Rotterdam (not Amsterdam, Thomas) was yesterday! Let’s see how that goes. I can’t wait two weeks, visas get in the way.
Wanna Be A KP 
May 20, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Hi Tiara
Thank you fore your blog. I think it’s very inspiring that you are so passionate and know what you want to do, and that you go for it! I wish you all the best!
We meet before accaly, in Stockholm at the admission workshop last year. I’m a member of team 1 Öresund, now in Mumbai, as you know, for our Outpost.
I read you blog entry ”KaosPilots: Culturally Aware – or Not?” and I went out for a while thinking about it.
I wondered what your purpose with it is? What did you want to achieve whit those words?
I believe constructive criticism is a tool for developmen. That’s why I appreciated your latest entry.
What do you want to know? I would like to ask you to ask me questions before you judge us and me by reading personal blog entrys?
What is it that you want? Do you want http://www.kaospilot/oresund to present more information about our projects and our school in Malmö? Would you like to help us get better from your point of view? As you can see on the webpage its under development, so I ask you to have patience for a bit longer or send me an email and Ill try to answer your questions the best I can.
However, I can only speak for myself, give me feedback, ask me questions and with that help me broaden my perspective. I feel you know very little about my perspective if you don’t ask me about it.
Our, team 1 Öresund, common report about our projects and our process as a team will be available after our examination on the third of June.
As you know our blog entrys are not only in English, that’s how we wanted it to be, because “our stories” is about our subjective pictures of this time.
Sometime its about our projects, sometimes its about our personal life, sometimes its about something totally different, sometimes in English, sometimes in Swedish, but still its just story’s made of feeling.
We could have been more clearer about the purpose whit our different blogs.
Once again, thank you for you reflections. Good luck in Rotterdam, it’s truly an interesting city, with a lot of interesting peoples, like I believe it is in all parts of the world.
With love//
Jannica, Team 1 Öresund
jannica@kaospilot.se
May 21, 2008 at 2:13 am
Google is your friend:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bitterblog.dk%2F2008%2F04%2Fvrdilshed.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=da&tl=en
May 21, 2008 at 5:23 am
Jannica: Thank you so much for your thoughtful response! Small world 🙂
What I am looking for is, as you said, info about the projects you’re all up to. I am highly curious and am particularly interested in the processes – how you start the project, what challenges you go through, how you dealt with them, etc. If you’re overseas, I’d like to know how it’s like dealing with another culture.
I understand that there’s often a language barrier. I just find it a little…well, not sure if ‘sad’ is the right word, maybe ‘unfortunate’…that the parties tend to overshadow everything else. I’m not a big party person myself, and I’m in a country (Australia) where students + alcohol is super common, and it does get very tiring after a while.
More progress less party. lolol.
Kim: Machine translations don’t tend to convey messages accurately though…when we used another web translator, it was semi-gibberish.
I also don’t want to be missing important context because some words weren’t translated correctly. Big difference between lightning and lightning bug ((C) Stephen King)…
May 21, 2008 at 5:23 am
Kim: oh goodness, Google’s translation is so much better. Still missed a few words tho…
May 21, 2008 at 5:32 am
Jannica: I just read the BitterBlog translation Kim linked to. he wasn’t kidding about “bitter”
Though it does raise an interesting point – would teambuilding exercises and the like actually be productive, or are they timewasting? I suppose it depends on the culture of the company – some would be more open to it than others. But on the other hand, we have to be careful that our work has results. I go to a lot of conferences and there are many times where you’d go through some activity or meeting or other…get all excited…then at the end – nothing. Nothing’s happened from it. It’s a common conference problem – the energy is contained to that one event.
I suppose we all have to think about the purpose of our actions. Is it all just for a bit of fun? Where does it lead to?
Thanks again, good to see some discussion going 😀
May 26, 2008 at 12:48 am
Hi again Tiara
Sorry form my late responding. Tomorrow we, team 1 Öresund leave Mumbai for Öresund so the last couple of weeks has been about closing down our work, saying goodbye for now to our friends and co-workers here & write our team report, that’s going to be a book that you can download from http://www.kaospilot.se/oresund after the third of may.
The main target group is present and future employees, co-workers and clients. However, you’ll fined answers to your questions by reading this book.
All the best//
Jannica