U-Facing

I have to say, being a unit facilitator was interesting. A unit facilitator is the person that basically leads a unit in the programs. They make sure that all the exchanges go smoothly, which is when we meet and talk to people involved in the issues that's being discussed, and doing the briefing if the unit and the workshop, which is sort of like a debriefing. While it seems as i many people in the program did not enjoy the position, I surprisingly did. I some how discovered that I missed working hard in a way. I'm so used to the hectic schedule and long night that I have at school, that I began missing it in a way, which I don't know if that's good or not for my sanity in the future.

As a unit facilitator we had a few extra duties then the past 2 unit facilitator groups did. We had the job right in the midst o what they we were calling the slump. The slump is the period on study abroad were most people start to go in to hiding in a way, they start to miss home and people, and because of that go through a sort of depression. This was not exactly the funnest time to be doing the job, as many people has really begun to hate the program, and in turn retaliated using passive agression. So to try to liven things up and get the group past this slump, we tried to change up the way the unit was runig for once. It seemed as though everything had gotten a little too monotonus and that because of it people were unhappy.

When I normally do these types of things, I love to really have a ineractive component to them. While at home, I'm the president of a club called Globemed that does similar things in informing the student population of northeastern, so I wanted to try and mimic some of the things that I did back home a little bit. What we came up with essentially was a water ballon fight. It was genius. The fight was done in such a way that a feelings of emotion could be envoked. We made it so that one side was the villagers, and gave them limited supplies, and limited space to move, while the other side we called the governement, or in general terms, "The Man." We gave that side a larger ammount of water balloons and oppertunities to get the other team wet. In the end the mesage was that with a certain ammount of reasources the villagers or any marginalized group has to face difficulties in order to accomplish their goals.