Whacky Wednesdays! / Connection! * :) [7]

This week's trip to the middle school was definitely one to remember. I started off in Ms. Ryan's office. We talked about my presentation and paper, then we had a couple visits. The first was with Cody and my good friend Jeff. Ms. Ryan likes for these two to come in at the same time because they are total opposites. Cody is very negative and anti-social. Jeff is friendly and, as I learned in one of my previous visits, used to have trouble with making friends. Ms. Ryan had them do an activity on paper. The paper had the alphabet and for each letter, they had to name something that they liked about themselves. Our next visitors were Sam and Andrew. They've been having trouble with a bully. They asked Ms. Ryan to speak to the boy for them. Afterwards, Sam showed us his new hobby, oragami! His class started this, and every crane he makes is $2 for the disaster in Japan. (I was wondering why the high school doesn't do something like this. I'll get more information on this soon.) Around 2:15, Ms. Ryan and I made our way to the cafeteria for our Girls' Group. Ms. Ryan planned a "Circle of Friends" activity, but it got cut short when Mr. Strong came for a visit. He was taking pictures for a bulletin that he sends to all of the teachers. This bulletin lets them know what's going on around the middle school and gives them ideas on new things to start. The girls also did their skits for him. They were both about PEER PRESSURE and FITTING IN. I made this a huge connection to my research paper. The skits showed a girl wanting to be a part of the cooler group of girls, so when the group told her to do different things, like steal lunch money and punch someone in the face, she listened in order for them to accept her. In the end, the group completely neglected anything she did and didn't let her be a part of the group. All in all, I think this was one of the more interesting sponsor visits.