022. Swimming Day at Ati

Honestly this name is the best way to describe what happened that day. We actually started to get deeper into the thinking of our individual question. We brainstormed and make guidelines to make cleared the idea that we wanted to express. At least I discovered that I’m still a little bit addict to get guideline of the professor so I asked Bert a lot. But also discovered that I loved to work with Carmen and Grace, they are so creative and so spontaneous. Actually Grace taught me a great lesson: to be aware of others feelings during dialogue and that is better to talk than to keep you issues to yourself because they will disable to be attentive to what you are doing.

The fact that I was uneasy was because I talked with bert about the “food issue”. Well this proved to be really irritating at least for me but in the longer term good for our community. It goes something like this: When planning the trip we shared that breakfast was going to be buffé at a cost of Q35, lunch was going to be individually elected and dinner (the only available) would be Q60. Well we agreed on this but when arrived and due personal schedules for food and limited budget some people asked not to be served breakfast or dinner. So since I was the link with the hotel to make the reservation they start asking me about it and I accepted the task... So I asked the hotel and they said it was no problem... but they asked to make lists and I also accepted. This took away a lot of time of my schedule. Also Bert got annoyed by this because it would make breakfast slower but more than that it was not honoring the commitment that we did at Guate. So we brought back the allegory of the Ati Boats that change their mind. Well so this became the “food issue” and we talked about this extendedly in the afternoon.

Ohh but I forgot to tell that accepting the task of making lists proved me to be a bad choice. For example when the lunch was pizza buffé  they asked me a list and I asked all and half said yes and others said no. But then when a group realized there were no other place to eat they asked the manager to sign in when the pizzas was about to get ready! But what was worst some people that were not in the list and not even asked got into the line and eat from the pizza! So the result was a semi pizza buffé where people eated less than they paid for and a couple of angry vegetarians... since their pizza was the most abused.  Ohh well after this we had a session and agreed to make some changes and honoring our commitments. We got a solution where there were no lists we asked the hotel to put all of us for both breakfast and dinner and if someone wanted to sign out they would had to do it by themselves with the following deadlines:  breakfast at 8pm the day before and dinner before 3pm. If not they would have to bear the consecuences both being without food and hungry or not wanting the food and paying.

I also got to swim to a dock with a couple of friends in the afternoon. I also start swimming on the pages of the Autobiography of Ben Franklin. At the beginning I didn’t liked it so much but then proved me wrong and showed me how interesting it was his life.