Blog entry for July 14, 2008
At last year’s English Camp, we introduced the “Important Things in Life” free talk discussions. Using essays from the National Public Radio show, “This I Believe,” we led students in discussions related to the talks. Some of our most significant discussions happened in those discussion times and some of our ongoing relationships started there.
This year, we decided to start the “Important Things in Life” discussions during the training week. This will give us an extra week to build relationships and talk about important things. I hope that as you think about us as we have these discussions that important relationships will result.
Today we talked about an article, “Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude.” In the essay, the author talked about how she has learned to give the pizza delivery guy respect even though his job is not very respected or valued. This led to an interesting discussion about how we treat others. I was able to share the common saying, "treat other people the way you want to be treated." Close to 50 people stayed for the free talk time. No doubt that number will dwindle in coming days, but people certainly seemed to enjoy a lively discussion today. We trust that the time we spend together will have benefits for a LONG time.
