Today in morning meeting we talked about our PR and some of the feedback that we got so far is that we do nothing! Can you believe that! OMG Carmen would say! Well today we counted with Carla’s presence so she suggested that we must tell them what we do or the books we read. Bert also suggested that before telling that we must ask: So... what do you know about us? With Diego, Alejo, Marcela and Me we shared some of the activities that we had at the SFL workshop and anounced that later we will talk about the project that we developed aka: “Le Sticky Method”.
Then Carmen shared her activity. In a piece of paper we had to write something good and that we like about the person next to me. We did it and it was awesome! I got so many good things in my paper and I loved it! I will scan the paper and put it here. When I was reading Gaby’s (It was anonymous but you could tell easily who wrote them either by handwriting, order or content =] ) I wanted to cry! This guys are so great! We even stand up and had to give us a hug! Yeah Gaby thanks for that it felt really good!
Ohhh and this week is our Cleaning roaster week! So we made coffee and cleaned the dirty china.
After we had Greek Class and I’m not afraid to say I didn’t like it today. I’m tankful to Moris but I think he is still not willing to change methodology or maybe he is still struggling to find the best way. In my opinion he still want to teach a lecture and if that is true that would explain why he is not fond of student interventions. Today he even complained with Carla about the methodology. I’m looking foward today’s diebrief to see what our points of view are in this topic.
We went with Diego Rivera to buy McRibs at lunch and we had them at the MPC. Then Diego, Alejo, Marce, Isa and me shared with the others about our Work at SFL workshop and ask them if they wanted to help us. We got feedback about how to proceed better and focus on the inquiry more than the questions. (See activities). Then we had another dialogue on Emerson’s Self-Reliance article and what I liked about this time was his focus on you being the only one who can absolve you and that by doing this you will get the suffrage of the world. We actually had some problem to define the word “suffrage” and we still look for more clarification. We also talked about being what you are instead of copying or imitating or conforming. It is better to have lower values but being honest all times that change and muting accordingly to what others think.
Then we had our Math Class and let me tell you I loved it! I had been taking a programing class at CodeAcademy.com and I really liked it. (I love you CodeAcademy!) But what I didn’t realized it was that I was learning JavaScript not Ruby (the language used at Class). So I got with a solution to the second part of our problem. [Sum the digits of 100!]. It involved changing the digit into a string, then counting the length, setting this as my limit, then with a subscript taking the individual characters of the string and then changing them back to a number. I knew the theory but not how to put it on computer language, Kyle helped me with that and we run it. I was so excited, really, really excited. Then we puted the answer in Project Euler and guess what... It didn’t worked! Ohhhh! But then Alejo pointed out that we start counting at [i] (1) instead of [i] (0) so we run it again and it worked! I was so happy! Then after a brief recess Kyle shared with us about the Pasarelli Library Project. What an amazing project is this!
Afterwards we had debriefing and I pointed out the topic of Greek! It was so good to talk about this. We realized we still are not preparing as good, that having two texts might confuse us a little, that Morris is a good but misused resource, that he is trying to change his method, that we still are talking about issues that don’t correspond to the date. So we decided to talk to him about this issues and Javier Parellada and others offer themselves to make a letter. Among the things we decided were that we might let him gave us a lecture and ask after he finishes.
Then the other part of debriefing was Gaby sharing (by Marce’s question) why she was so absent of mind today at class. She shared his frustration about not being able to cope with the requirements of the MPC curriculum and she felt bad because she feel have too many things in his plate. Also she felt she was the only one... can you believe that! Well then Javier Tabush shared that he felt the same... then others.... then others... and then others... and then me! MPCers got real! Bert acknowledge this concerns and told us that it was exactly the way we should feel like. Then he told us that it was going to get worst!!!! But that some of the goals of the MPC is for us to find out what are our strengths and weakness and departing from that point we should start building up! I totally connected this with Parker Palmer’s book! Ohh well it was an amazing day at MPC! And let me say that I’m really, but Really happy that Gaby bring this topic today. I truly believe that by doing so she showed again how much she belongs in here.
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