So from Monday to Friday I’ve been in inductions for sixth forms, Monday to Wednesday I attended Leventhorpe, and Thursday to Friday I was at St marks, the overall experience of both were good, i loved Leventhorpe and seriously considering going there, and St marks induction was okay also.
The thing that struck me the most was the whole idea of "new people", meaning if I did end up going to Leventhorpe, i would have to start from scratch, new friends, new surroundings, and new lifestyle. Kind of scary right?
I think I’ve got so set into 5 years of new ways, with the same people, the same school and same teachers that St marks has become some sort of a security blanket to me, and I think if I stay there for another 2 years, maybe I’ll get to attached and it will be even harder for me to move on to a place such as university.
During the inductions, we did "team building" a way to break the ice between strangers by getting them to do tasks in which we communicate with one another, but I felt that by drawing pictures together wasn’t the best way to become friends with someone you just met, as we would put on a fake smile pretend to like each other for the 15 minute task, and then when the task finished we would run to our old friends and clasp to them like a security blanket.
My personal outlook on it, is that I felt I became closer to a group of people who I hadn’t met before due to the fact we just sat at a table during lunch and shared some very personal and embarrassing stories, and after that I felt like I had actually accomplished some sort of ice break between people and all we did was sit with each other during lunch.
I feel we as students are stuck it concrete secure ways, that we have built barriers to keep friends we’ve known for a long time in, and now were older we have found it hard to accept others and let them melt that barrier, and if we ever want to fit in somewhere new, we need to go back to our child state of mind and become honest with people and let everyone in, and then we can pick and chose who we want to keep in the barrier, and who we don’t need so much anymore.
so bloggers if you really want to get to know someone in a day, don’t play with Lego to construct a friendship, just talk in depth with someone, and don’t be scared to be truthful, after all these are the people you could end up sharing the next two years with, might as well start on the first day right ? x
The thing that struck me the most was the whole idea of "new people", meaning if I did end up going to Leventhorpe, i would have to start from scratch, new friends, new surroundings, and new lifestyle. Kind of scary right?
I think I’ve got so set into 5 years of new ways, with the same people, the same school and same teachers that St marks has become some sort of a security blanket to me, and I think if I stay there for another 2 years, maybe I’ll get to attached and it will be even harder for me to move on to a place such as university.
During the inductions, we did "team building" a way to break the ice between strangers by getting them to do tasks in which we communicate with one another, but I felt that by drawing pictures together wasn’t the best way to become friends with someone you just met, as we would put on a fake smile pretend to like each other for the 15 minute task, and then when the task finished we would run to our old friends and clasp to them like a security blanket.
My personal outlook on it, is that I felt I became closer to a group of people who I hadn’t met before due to the fact we just sat at a table during lunch and shared some very personal and embarrassing stories, and after that I felt like I had actually accomplished some sort of ice break between people and all we did was sit with each other during lunch.
I feel we as students are stuck it concrete secure ways, that we have built barriers to keep friends we’ve known for a long time in, and now were older we have found it hard to accept others and let them melt that barrier, and if we ever want to fit in somewhere new, we need to go back to our child state of mind and become honest with people and let everyone in, and then we can pick and chose who we want to keep in the barrier, and who we don’t need so much anymore.
so bloggers if you really want to get to know someone in a day, don’t play with Lego to construct a friendship, just talk in depth with someone, and don’t be scared to be truthful, after all these are the people you could end up sharing the next two years with, might as well start on the first day right ? x
