Day Two!

1/24/2011
12:50am

So today was the second day at SEGL and the first full day of the semester! People did lots of different things this morning. Some people slept in, and others went on a tour around the block or to the gym. I slept in until about 9 and went downstairs with Jacob, Tyler, and our RA Lucy to hang out and be on our computers. When everyone got back, we set up for brunch at 11:30, which were bagels and locks. After eating and having interesting lunch conversations about hummus and almond milk, we got ready and left the house. When we got to the academic, we went over two lists. The first was what makes a good leader? And what makes a good follower? All of us came up with at least one thing for both questions. It was our first real learning activity with all of us together. Then we split into 2 groups. Mine consisted of Tony from Texas, Doris from Texas, Marcy from Georgia, Andy from California, Jon from Rhode Island, Jessie from New York, Tyler from Washington, and then me. Our group was amazing! We had such a fun time. First, we went upstairs to the science wing where we were with Gray, the academic dean, and we had to blindfold each person, one at a time, and guide them by using communication though the “mine field.” It was really interesting and fun and after we finished we talked about why communication was important and who the dominant leaders in the group were. Then we went downstairs to do trust falls with Robbie, which was hilarious. Tony and I were partners and he honestly made me fall so far and it was so scary but in the end we had so much fun and all trusted each other. But that was just the beginning, then we started doing trust falls of tables. It was such a good exercise! Then we did the spider web activity where each person had to climb through holes without touching the “web,” which was strings. Andy and Tony lifted me about 4 feet off the ground and passed me through one of the holes in the web. Andy is 6’4 by the way, and they passed me to Jon on the other side. It was so scary but it was all about trust in most of the activities. Plus, we were the first group in SEGL history to get everyone through the web in record time! Then we went downstairs and each wrote a goal on an index card for the semester. Then we laid down and put the cards next to where our head was when we laid down. We all stood in a small circle and had to figure out a way to get the cards. Tony basically held onto everyone while we slowly got lowered down. It was quite amusing. And while lowering Andy, Tony did a huge wipeout, which was hilarious! Then we did mini advisor meetings just to check in and to see how everything was going. We got our books for school also in that time. Then we went on a CVS run down the street. Marcy, Tyler and I honestly looked everywhere for Nutella, but no one had it! The guy at CVS didn’t even know what Nutella was. Then we had dinner of pizza and our first academic session started after that. It was our first ethics class! We watched the ten minutes leading up to the 9/11 attacks, when it happened, and about 30 minutes after it happened. Then we debriefed and had a really good conversation about how we felt, and what we remembered from that day. We also talked about how calm the reporters seemed and other thoughts we had on the video. By that time it was extremely late for us since we were all tired, even though it was only about 8:30, and we headed back to the dorm. Also on our way back, we learned that TJ is deathly afraid of ostriches due to a horrible petting zoo experience. So we printed out ostriches and hung them all over his bed. He said he isn’t sleeping tonight; oh gosh. So we came back to the dorm, had our first dorm meeting and went over dish crew, chores, and all the kinds of things about the house. Lucy set the alarm, we hung out and got our school stuff ready for tomorrow, and went to bed!

Ps- these posts wont normally be this long but thanks to everyone who read all the way to here! <3