Of course this morning was fun. It was PT Circuit day! We started off with Star Hands (hold your arms straight in front of you flexing and contracting your fingers as fast as you can for 2 minutes. You’ll feel the burn!) and the rest of the morning was a blur of running and crunches. I do remember jumping around to the Cupid Shuffle which made it a little more fun.
This morning was the first group to leave for Mendocino so we got to watch tem load their AmeriVans as we ran laps around the dorm buildings. Them leaving means half my dorm is empty because we now live with Gold and Green (my unit) in one building and Silver and Blue in the other.
After PT, shower, and breakfast was the Hands of Peace workshop- an all day seminar about how to deal with each other peacefully. We started off with a name game because my team, Green 2, was paired with Green 4. We had to come up with adjectives about ourselves that started with the first letter of our name. Do you know how few adjectives there are starting with “k”?! From there we went into active listening where we paired off and person A had to talk to person B for 2 minutes about someone they admired/respected and person B couldn’t respond, and then switched. The next exercise: person A talked about a topic for 2 minutes and B could respond but only to further person A (no telling of your own story), and then switch. We discussed ways to give advice by splitting into groups of 3 where A would talk, B could listen, and C was the observer to give feedback. We played a lot of games, like Pattern Ball where a koosh ball was thrown into the circle and you had to remember who threw it to you and who you threw it to. We switched it up by going in reverse order, not calling out to the person you were throwing to, adding two other balls, and evoking a “Sacramento Shuffle” where everyone has to move to a different seat in the room. We also played “The Great Wind Blows” which is kind of like musical chairs but with no music. There is one less spot in the circle than people playing and the It person says “The great wind blows for…” and names a characteristic and everyone who fits the description has to get up and find a free spot. By far, the best game was Crocs and Frogs, a form of musical chairs. There’s one “it” person (the crocodile) who swims in the “water” (the floor) and all the others playing (the frogs) can swim around in the water until the music stops and you have to find a lily pad to stand on (a sheet of newspaper). If any part of your foot touches the water and the Croc sees it, he can tag you and you’re out. It was hilarious to see how many people we could fit on one unfolded sheet of newspaper and you really had to trust your teammates because, in one instance, my teammate Catherine held onto me so I wouldn’t fall in the water. So much fun!! We played the Tower of Babel where you’re told you will be given materials to build a structure but you don’t know what the materials are and once they are given to you, you won’t be able to talk to each other. My team decided to build a house. Turns out our materials were Tinker Toys. So we built a structure that could have been mistaken for a cube and then added the rest of the toys onto it. Haha it wasn’t quite what we had originally imagined, but it was fun.
The day was very entertaining and at the end of it we had to draft a team charter of ideas or characteristics that we promise to uphold. I don’t remember the specifics but I know we promised to GET THINGS DONE, respect the A, respect each other, and our number 10 rule was to Sing and be Jolly! I love my team. During the breaks of the Hands of Peace we had team sing-along and played telephone and guess that tune.
Tonight was my team’s first duty night. We had to clean our dorm building from top to bottom. Well not really, because there are cleaning crews to do the heavy-duty details. But we cleaned the common area, computer room, laundry room, lobby bathroom, and the lobby. Many hands make light work!
My friends Josh, Tucker, AND Shea leave with the Silver Unit tomorrow for Mendocino. That leaves just me and Ashley. What will we do?? We’re already going through pod withdrawals and that’s when they’re on the same AFB with us! What am I gonna do when they’re in a completely different part of the state!
Tomorrow is running day! Ugh. But the way the schedule is I just have to make it through PT, clean out kitchen and then I can go back to sleep until our Intro to Tools class at 1.
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