Lady Gaara
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- Posted: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:17:47 +0000
Got your attention? Good! To see the problems.. just scroll down.. or else you'll be bored with a beginning rant
In the beginning of my junior year, I came across a poster displaying an advertisement for a club featuring the game called "Go". But it also promised a link to other anime followers..
So I managed to persuade my friends to go ahead and come with me to check out what this club was all about..
The response of attendance was good, or at least fairly good for a gathering of fellow anime lovers in any H/s.
About 30 people showed up. All for the same reason:
Anime, not "Go."
Sadly, however, it turned out to only be a minor branch of the Multicultural Club.
Plus, the faculty sponsor was already juggling many other side branches.. some that were far more larger and important than that of The Go club.
So the "Go" Club that seemed promising for anime fans pretty much went downhill.. Besides, it was already originally intended for The game "Go" and not just anime..
So There it was..
A mass bunch of people who had their hopes for a club flushed down the toilet.
After a few mornings and a few lunch breaks of talking to my friends about the idea of creating a stable Anime club.. I summed up enough courage to take the lead and create a constitution and in some way get the club started.
It took a while, but the club was officially put onto it's feet and we had a faculty sponsor who was into anime as much as we were without being clinically insane.
~So.. Here starts the problems..~
~So.. Here starts the problems..~
1.) Laziness in Club Members.. and not just regular club laziness.
The club was but a mere baby, and we sure as heck wouldn't be getting any funding from the school, so we mostly had to rely on Bake sales and Game tourneys.
The Bakesales 2/3's of the time Flopped. Why? Because of the irresponsibility of the club members.
I would make announcements for every upcoming event like a broken record..and yet when the day came for a big money making event, I often found myself as the only one who actually brought anything.
The game tourneys however were mildy successful.. but only because the gamers tended to be more helpful. ( Gee, I wonder why)
2.) The people who tend to be..
Yeah.. You have some fans who are respectable.. but then you have some that need to lay off on the anime or the attitude.
I respect the fact that many fans are intro-spective..
But when they do things just for attention.. God. *rubs face*
The stories I could tell on that alone.
3.) Club Members are jumpy to get special positions.. but they only do it for the name.
When they are actually given the job to do something.. they just don't do it..
So when the Cabinet members failed to do anything.. I blamed myself for not making any instructions and pointing out where to go to them..
But then it dawned on me..
Their jobs and what they did was already mentioned in the Constitution.. I had read it to them, given it to them, talked it over with them, and told them what they had to do before.
I was mildly ticked at myself for that one.
4.) Getting people to come to Anime club sponsored events..
Ugh, I'm not even sure where to start here. Many times I've considered doing a few things.. but the fear of it being a total flop like for example; Many bake-sales and a few tourneys, has stopped it.
It just seems like people wouldn't dare come near a hoard of misfit sponsored activities.
But anyway, this pretty much concludes this.
If anyone thinks this belongs somewhere else, please tell me. I thought that the anime section would just be the most appropriate.
Comments, bumps ( which I hope I won't need), perhaps situations like this, or your own personal problems/achievements with your anime club are greatly appreciated.
In the beginning of my junior year, I came across a poster displaying an advertisement for a club featuring the game called "Go". But it also promised a link to other anime followers..
So I managed to persuade my friends to go ahead and come with me to check out what this club was all about..
The response of attendance was good, or at least fairly good for a gathering of fellow anime lovers in any H/s.
About 30 people showed up. All for the same reason:
Anime, not "Go."
Sadly, however, it turned out to only be a minor branch of the Multicultural Club.
Plus, the faculty sponsor was already juggling many other side branches.. some that were far more larger and important than that of The Go club.
So the "Go" Club that seemed promising for anime fans pretty much went downhill.. Besides, it was already originally intended for The game "Go" and not just anime..
So There it was..
A mass bunch of people who had their hopes for a club flushed down the toilet.
After a few mornings and a few lunch breaks of talking to my friends about the idea of creating a stable Anime club.. I summed up enough courage to take the lead and create a constitution and in some way get the club started.
It took a while, but the club was officially put onto it's feet and we had a faculty sponsor who was into anime as much as we were without being clinically insane.
~So.. Here starts the problems..~
~So.. Here starts the problems..~
1.) Laziness in Club Members.. and not just regular club laziness.
The club was but a mere baby, and we sure as heck wouldn't be getting any funding from the school, so we mostly had to rely on Bake sales and Game tourneys.
The Bakesales 2/3's of the time Flopped. Why? Because of the irresponsibility of the club members.
I would make announcements for every upcoming event like a broken record..and yet when the day came for a big money making event, I often found myself as the only one who actually brought anything.
The game tourneys however were mildy successful.. but only because the gamers tended to be more helpful. ( Gee, I wonder why)
2.) The people who tend to be..
Yeah.. You have some fans who are respectable.. but then you have some that need to lay off on the anime or the attitude.
I respect the fact that many fans are intro-spective..
But when they do things just for attention.. God. *rubs face*
The stories I could tell on that alone.
3.) Club Members are jumpy to get special positions.. but they only do it for the name.
When they are actually given the job to do something.. they just don't do it..
So when the Cabinet members failed to do anything.. I blamed myself for not making any instructions and pointing out where to go to them..
But then it dawned on me..
Their jobs and what they did was already mentioned in the Constitution.. I had read it to them, given it to them, talked it over with them, and told them what they had to do before.
I was mildly ticked at myself for that one.
4.) Getting people to come to Anime club sponsored events..
Ugh, I'm not even sure where to start here. Many times I've considered doing a few things.. but the fear of it being a total flop like for example; Many bake-sales and a few tourneys, has stopped it.
It just seems like people wouldn't dare come near a hoard of misfit sponsored activities.
But anyway, this pretty much concludes this.
If anyone thinks this belongs somewhere else, please tell me. I thought that the anime section would just be the most appropriate.
Comments, bumps ( which I hope I won't need), perhaps situations like this, or your own personal problems/achievements with your anime club are greatly appreciated.
