Now on my third round of chat cafe I feel confident in saying no group is the same and therefore there is no formula for the perfect group. My group is smaller again, like it was the first round and conversation flows somewhere in between my first talkative group and my last more reserved group. This is the first time I've had a midday group where members are coming from and going to classes on either end. It somewhat limits the activities I'd done in the past with groups, such as getting dinner. With only an hour its difficult to decide to go meet at a restaurant.
I do have some other things that I think will be able to fit within the time more nicely including visiting the Kelsey Museum and taking a trip to the Wellness Zone in the union.
Also doing a "game day" was fun last semester, where we played word games like Never Have I Ever and Two Truths and Lie.
One girl seemed particularly interested in talking about American culture, but she wasn't at the meeting last week. I hope we can hit on some topics to spend whole meetings talking about, so we can get really in depth in a topic, I feel like those meetings are really valuable.
My hopes for the semester beside, so far it's going well and I'm excited for the semester!
Thanks Emma! This exhibit at the Kelsey Museum looks really cool: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/less-than-perfect/events.php
ReplyDeleteIf you do make it there with your group, let us know how it goes!