iWeek video here!
We've been together for 19 hours out of the 35 hours of the school week and we came up with a product. A product that would be a small act of welcome to new teachers, hoping to be able to implement it in coming years. I had been told of iWeek before school started and had come up with one or two ideas, one that I thought was more useful than the other, but in the end they didn't really solve the problem we had identified. I have always done well working in groups, considering that I usually become one of the leaders, but this time it was different. I was not in my comfort zone being in front of so many people and leading them. Either way, I would have to come out of it sooner or later if I wanted to be a helpful part of this group. On Monday we had to interview teachers, the first test I would receive on coming out of my comfort zone. I once stood in front of a large group of people and tried to say that once we start to come out of our comfort zone, it gets easier each time. Mind you, I was in front of around 200 people and I did manage to mess this one sentence up royally and said quite the opposite I intended to say, but my point was understood and it was the start of me leaving this zone that was, and still is, one of my favorite places. When we first started the interviews, I was in a group of five and I was completely fine with that because it meant that there were four other people that could talk with the teachers, but we were told that it might be intimidating for the new teachers if they had five students walking up to them to talk about being new, so naturally we split into a group of two and three and I was in the group of two... with the filmer, meaning that I was going to have to speak to the new teachers. We were assigned one teacher who happened to be busy all day and I was starting to get happy about that because it meant that I was not going to have to talk to her; but we also had a problem, we couldn't go back to class with no juicy information so we went on a quest to find another teacher. We ended up in the Libru, the Early Childhood library speaking with the new librarian. When we got to the Libru, Alex approached the librarian and asked if we could interview her about her experience in Peru. She agreed and the interview started. We had 5 questions that we had come up with as a group and were supposed to ask her. At first, the interview was awkward for me because I don't really have experience doing interviews and this was supposed to feel more like a conversation than a structured interview. It was also weird because we were both getting filmed and that is something that I'm not really used to, so it was adding another level of awkwardness to the interview. At the end, the interview started to flow a little more and seemed more like a conversation but it wasn't exactly a conversation and it wasn't really what we had in mind. We finished the interview and on Wednesday we had to go back out to conduct other ones with other teachers. This time, I was less nervous than I was before but again, we couldn't find the teacher we were supposed to interview but this time I was a little frustrated about it and happily went on a quest to find other teachers. These interviews were slightly different but were also slightly easier and I realized that if I would do this more often, it would eventually become easier. Like I once tried to say before, coming out of our comfort zone is hard, but once we start doing it more often, it becomes easier and it's not so bad anymore. We all have to push ourselves, we have to grow as people and do things that challenge us no matter how hard they seem because eventually they become easy and sooner or later we find that our comfort zone has expanded and we are ready to face new challenges.
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