Midway!

Last class period was the midway point where everyone switched professors for the rest of the semester!  Because no one group had any assigned activity presentations for that week, the class did a couple of impromptu activities.  These were a variation of the name game as well as an creating an activity from items in a box filled with random objects.  For the name game, my group decided that we would choose celebrities whose first name we shared and give clues about who that celebrity was to the class in order for them to guess our names.  Another group did a crossword puzzle, where the answers to the puzzle questions were their names, while others had the class spell out their group members' names with their bodies.  For the next activity that had to be created with random items from a box, my group, as well as many others, decided to come up with a relay race of sorts.  These relay races included anything from blowing up balloons, putting on hair nets and exam gloves, and balancing objects on one's head, etc.  What I learned from these activities that will help me in my professional development is how inexpensive and fun an activity can be if you just allow yourself to be creative!  Giving each activity a chance, even though it was not "polished" by a lot of prep-work was also what I did to "strive for excellence" during class, and it really paid off!  What I learned about myself this week is that I am good at working in teams, but that I need to work on my leadership skills a little bit more!  I feel that I automatically let others take the leadership  role because it looks intimidating to me, and it seems to come more naturally to them.  But, if I always do this, I will never have the chance to develop as a leader myself.