Assignment 28: Reflecting - Sarah

1. Where have I succeeded in the Project?

Working in this project I had much fun and I succeeded in supporting the team. Everyone had their tasks in the project and also, I was working on parts of the concepts. Most successful was learning from the others and working together.

2. What kind of challenges I have encountered?

For me the challenges were the many assignments we got from the university. In some of them I saw no sense for our project and it was really hard to deal with them. Start working after doing them was a challenge of motivating myself.

3. What kind of challenges have you encountered as a group?

The biggest challenge in my opinion was the different language and the different habits of people. People with other backgrounds have another point of view. As a group, we found out what was expected from us and how we could deal with it. Because we are also from different countries we could talk together about many approaches and find a solution everyone agreed.

4. What would I do differently?

Next time I would repeat my Spanish lessons before going there. I could understand the people talking when they speak slowly, but talking was not possible for me. I was expecting that the people in hotels or bar would understand us in English.

5. Have I done something extra for the Project?

I did some research extra after we met, but it doesn’t feel like extra work. The whole group worked a lot during this three weeks. On the weekend, I explored the city what was also nice to see for the whole impression of the city.

6. What have I learned?

First, I learned a lot about the culture and the habits of the people in Alcoy. The whole atmosphere and environment is different. This leads to a different behavior. At the end of the project I can understand better why for example a car is so important for the people there. I can also see why many of the people don’t like to use the bike to move or walk to their destination. From my home town I am used to move with public transport or bike, but here it is way harder, because of the infrastructure.

I also learned more about my group members. To work with them and of course to have fun with them. In my opinion we are a good team and did a lot of good work together.