Friday's Class

Last Friday's class was also a bit of a roller coaster for me as well. I think I have a hard time staying focused on Fridays.  During the "I am From" exercise I found it difficult for me to emotionally connect with my writing.  As I witnessed such strongly expressed emotions from my peers, which were so powerful, I started to feel self conscious that I was not experiencing the same emotions.  My writing I felt reflected how I was feeling about my life at the moment, however, it wasn't until wrapping up the sharing that I started to get emotional.  So much reflection in the past 8 weeks I feel has made me a little numb.  My personal opinions of my views, my life and myself are starting to feel generic and unreal.  I value the fact that we our program is structured around personal stories and opinions.  However, sometimes hearing others stories and experiences make me think that I have don't have enough culture or background to sympathize and understand my students to come.  Or perhaps I am not enough in touch with my emotions, which seems odd to me because I do consider myself an emotionally driven person.  I think exercise like the "I am From" are a great idea, highly therapeutic and eye-opening.  For me, I think going back to this at a different time may produce a more emotionally engaged experience.