Journal 14
Nov. 17
8:00pm
SOOOOOOO…. it’s my groups presentation on thursday and I am stressed because my voice recording and slides are due tonight but ya girl got food poisoning! I ended up testing the girls and letting them know and they were super understanding and said for me to focus on my health and we could send in the completed slides tomorrow. Thank God for understanding partners and just genuinely kind people.
Nov. 19
9:40am
Presentation Day!!!
My group presented and we killed it!!!!! OMG everybody did so good because we hosted a watch party the night before and everyone loved it because we got to prepare for class with the movie hercules all at once. Anyway, we focused on the mentor vs mentee ideal and how that worked with Phil and Hercules. Ultimately we see a growth in character and overall leadership abilities in Hercules through his mentorship he received. I loved the discussions and thought everyone did great. To make it more aMUSEing (see what I did there?) lol anyway, we decided to call ourselves the muses since there were 5 of us and there were 5 muses that narrated the story through song the whole way through the movie.
Nov. 23
Today I prepped for class by watching brother bear and spiderman: return to the spiderverse I believe it was called.
Watching the movies connected me to my childhood all over again. The spiderman movie not so much because I wasn’t big on the cartoon versions of those but Brother Bear definitely did.
Nov. 24
9:40am
In Class
The Last Presentations!!!
Though I didn’t get to stay for class very long due to a doctor’s appointment, I thought what I heard was great and the groups presenting did really well.
In Brother Bear:
The main character, Kenai, struggles to find peace with his totem being a bear due to his brother being killed by one. He finds it hard to forgive the bear so the spirits end up turning him into one. This puts him in the place of the bear and how he feels to be hunted and scared due to his other brother trying to hunt him and him having to find a way to survive and understand the way of life and forgiveness.
The whole idea of moving past anger and learning to forgive is something that should be instilled in everyone at a young age but many grown adults still struggle with it today. I know I have my moments where I can’t imagine forgiving someone but I know I’ll never be myself or find peace in not doing so. This is a key lesson for all leaders because we will all face people that do us wrong or may bring us strife and stress but we must forgive and show people mercy so that those we may lead will do so too.
