I had a pretty good week with cafe chat this week. I’m starting to love all my groups more. On Wednesday, Irfanul came to visit. Although I was kinda nervous at first, he was totally cool. And we needed him because I knew only 3 would show up and I had a game planned for 4 we never got to play since 4 never show up. It’s very frustrating. One guy is plain ignoring me, another guy is half ignoring me, and a girl just has something going on every week.
Anyway, the three that showed up were awesome and we played minute to win it games with partners such as flinging marshmallows off a spoon and having your partner catch it in a cup, marshmallow ping pong with binders, bounce the balloon back and forth between you and your partner but without hands or arms..etc. Irfanul and Charlotte won because they were awesome at marshmallow ping pong. I hope they had as much fun as I did during the games. We didn’t get through all the games I played but I was totally cool with that as long as they were having fun.
On Thursday, my awesome north group was all there again except this one girl but she told me she had an exam the same time as our group like 2 weeks ago so that doesn't really count. I love their attendance. It makes me so excited every time. We did this activity where we split into two teams and we both start with the same subject at the top of the page, which was, “This is our first cafe chat after fall break” and then we have to keep going from there in our teams, For example, I went first in my group and I wrote “A lot of exams are also coming up after fall break,” then Tian wrote “I will have an exam tomorrow”, and Roy (last member of my team) “I don’t want to know how bad I did on the last exam.” Halfway through, we switched papers with the other group and continued their chain. The ending statement to the example listed above was “That’s the very reason that sometimes I would prefer to go to Briarwood.” The team that had the most statements/interesting statements won. (my team won :D).
That night, Roy, Cece, and Mandy were all going to central after circle so I had people to take the bus with. Mandy and Cece were going to the UMMA and I told them the commuter south stops by there but they had never taken it that far before so I hope I was clear enough about where to get off. I tend to get lost a lot so I know how frustrating it can be.
On Friday I had conversation circle which is not really part of this but kind of similar so I’ll write about it anyways because they are really interesting. I don’t have to plan anything for that group when Adam shows up because he basically runs the circle for me. He is super awesome I love when he’s there. We talked about differences between dating culturally, but they were talking about grown-up dating which I don’t have any experience with. I feel like they were all hinting at something around me because Adam said I’m too young to understand. I got a lot of funky glances and I didn’t have much to contribute. It was pretty awkward. Then this guy bought up how Japanese writing is between Chinese traditional and simplified, and we had a really interesting discussion about that because everyone in our group either knew Chinese or Japanese. They really want to carve a pumpkin next week but I have no idea how to carve a pumpkin or where I can get a pumpkin.
I had a really great time with you no doubt! I realized how differently we operate our sessions. While your session involves a lot more physical activity and 'movement', I on the other hand, go for a more discussion based one. I was not able to test the extent of a playful activity since the one time I did had a no-show of most of my members. Regardless, I loved the games you had and it was quite the workout. I also appreciate the certificate of achievement you gave to me and Charlotte. Glad I was able to be 'cool' :D
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