Well, here's my final blog post. The stress is so real. I really like the idea of the stress talking cafe chat, but I didn't comment on that blog because I'm not sure if I can make a whole valid comment without just talking about my stress...but the comment I made was a bit of a rant.
Anyways, this week for Cafe Chat we're making Thanksgiving turkeys. I had a bunch of different kinds I found on pinterest, more intense than the regular elementary school ones, and I let them choose which one or ones to make from 4. I've been bringing a bag of construction paper, scissors, glue sticks, and examples of the turkeys with me to the chats. My Wednesday group members really enjoyed it. We were in the multipurpose room of West Quad, and we ended up going an extra 30 minutes over but three members were really into it and didn't mind. Then, apparently west quad was having a party or something and they bought in 42 huge boxes of pizza and let us have some so we got the food experience without having to go out. (I've been reluctant to plan outings with this group because attendance is so shaky).
Today, I bought in the same activity but it didn't go as well as I thought it would. I showed them the examples and got a lot of blank looks, but once I gave them a little nudge they were into it. However, it got awkward at the end because some people were really into it and taking a long time, and others I could tell were not and weren't so happy that we ended like 20 minutes late. I had my ukulele from my Mused teacher with me, and I let them all play with it.
These past two weekish/for a while I've been feeling pretty down and not talking much to anybody. I'm just not so happy mood-wise. I know what I'm upset about certain things, but all the bad things put together don't equate my upsetness. I try really hard to put it away from cafe chat, and put on a smile for them. I think I'm doing a good job, but sometimes when plans bust I think it might be because of this. I try really hard for them though. Sometimes I talk about it with them, but more in a joking matter than in a serious matter. I don't really know what I'm doing with my stupid moods.
Back to being a functioning human being, I think for my final project I want it to have something to do with the concept of home. I want to build a house type thing because moving is like finding a second home. And sometimes we don't find our home for awhile, but when we do it makes us feel not so foreign anymore. I'm not completely sure about this yet though. I also want to somehow incorporate everything we did during cafe chat this semester. I'm not sure who the audience is supposed to be.
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