Last Day at Daladyd

#8 Write about one Icelandic leader you have met. Introduce him or her, describe the parts of the leadership system in relation to him or her.

I introduced Beggy in my last post, but I believe he was the most effective and influential leader I met on the trip. All of the work he had us do was meaningful and important - none of it was busy work. When I look back on everything the team accomplished in Iceland and who our leaders were, I always compare them to Beggy, and I know the rest of the team does, too. In the leadership system we’ve been taught, Beggy would be the leader and we are his followers, and we were connected together through service work at the petting zoo. The context we found ourselves in included cold weather and uncertainty. The uncertainty was different for each of us on the team. Some of us had never done the kind work that was needed at the petting zoo before. Also, Beggy didn’t have an exact idea of what the petting zoo would look like, but he had a feeling for what it should be. In the beginning, each of us was uncertain about the other. We wondered why he would be taking us into their home while he was probably wondering why a group of kids and their teachers from Kansas were wanting to help him build a goat playground. Despite being unsure of each other initially, we pushed through it and together we were able to build a pretty awesome goat playground. I don’t know many people who can say that on their service trip they held baby goats.Read more