Emerson’s Comeback and Debriefing – D51

Today’s programming class was cancelled because Kyle is being very busy since he is about to launch his new project. Instead of having a programming class, we read Emerson’s Self-Reliance, which was very fitted to the moment we are living at the MPC. Nice comeback, Emerson! We only read like one page and a half, but had a great dialogue, inquiring into a deeper sense his ideas. One of the most important things we talked was about the importance to judge the past in order to improve our present. If we change the meaning of our past experiences by learning through those past experiences, we will be more prepared and succeed in the present and future. We related to the gratitude of the past Bert mentioned during our Thanksgiving dialogue.

The debriefing went pretty good. It feels good to have a peaceful debriefing and focus on the positive things we have been doing and did during the day. Definitely the most touched person today was Gabbi, because she had a rough start on the morning by confronting Bert and almost leaves the MPC for the day, but she came back, fixed things with Bert, and had an active participation during the Consilience dialogue, although she was on the outer circle. It’s very interesting how people can discover their potential through many ways and some are not pretty, but when you know you can positively contribute to others’ learning process of life and knowledge, and you commit yourself to become better and better, you can do wonderful things. If everyone could realize this, at least on the MPC, our culture would change dramatically. 

Gaby’s Morning Meeting? And Sharing – D50

Gaby was supposed to have facilitated today’s morning meeting, but she has been absent so far. Instead we decided to make the roster rubric so we are on the same page when a group is in charge of the chores of the week. What we came up with was the following,

Every assigned group must:

• Bring goodies, snacks, 2 pounds of coffee, 1 pound of sugar, 1 box of tea. All due on Monday.
• Clean all the common spaces.
• Open and close the windows.
• Have coffee ready at 7:45 a.m. 
• Take out the trashcan and empty it. 
• Pick up the water (garrafones) at Atención al Estudiante. 
• Check that the projector and lights are shut down before leaving.
• Charge the iPad. 

For the Agora time, we followed the sharing activities by telling everyone our linkage. Yesterday, or should I say today, at 12:00 a.m. made a Prezi presentation of my genealogical tree. It took me about an hour and a half, but I was very pleased with the result. I found a lot of fun facts, and the most interesting one for the MPC is that somehow somewhere, I’m related to Amable Sánchez, although not by blood you may say. He was married with a sister of the wife of the brother of my grandfather (of my father’s family). Cool, ha?!