Blog Post 3

Last week was a pretty good week. On Wednesday, we had our meeting in the south courtyard of West quad. I am kind of scared of one of the girls in the group cuz she’s really intense, but we had a lot of fun. I always start with the rose and thorns, which is where we say the highs and lows of our week, and a lot of had no rose but many thorns. It’s getting to that point in the semester where everything is full speed and everyone is exhausted. Then, we did an activity where we all write down something interesting/weird about ourselves and we pick up someone else’s by random and try to guess whose it is. They weren’t very into it.

I also realized this person in my Wednesday conversation group has not came to any meetings and has not replied to my last two emails. I emailed him again but I think I will continued to be ignored.

On Thursday, I got on North 20 minutes early to walk around pierpont and got lost but that’s okay because I found another place for us to have circle. It’s the reflection room for personal reflection but I doubted anyone would use it so I bought circle there after we did rose and thorns. We played human knot. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but when I play it at my summer camp, it always takes forever, but every time I try it with cafe chat/conversation circle, they solve it in like 2 minutes. Anyways, after that, we played king frog and then the game evolved to woosha, which is requires teamwork. I was on my own team because the game is more fun with more teams. It was really funny and I think they liked it. I really happy with their attendance. We had a full circle two weeks in a row which is amazing. The group deserves an attendance award I think. I hope no one ever has to use the reflection room on Thursday night so we can unofficially claim it.

I’m not sure if I plan for circle differently now that I’m starting to get to know them better. I don’t know how to be like “let’s discuss this topic” without being too awkward so I usually like to come with games. I do have a better idea of what they like though. All of us in my Thursday conversation group speak Chinese and a lot of play mahjong so I thought I could bring in my mahjong set sometime and we can all learn each other’s versions. However, that’s not a very American thing. There are a lot of Asians here. Between my two cafe chats and one conversation group, I only have one non Asian person.