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every day it becomes sunnier and warmer I have the tech-urge less and less. I feel like days are running by in a blur of skirts, pale legs, smiles, dancing, and laughing. I love spring. Today was my first bike ride since the fall and although my bike is in dire need of a tune-up and I only biked a bit to buy milk, it felt great.
I know I'm very sensitive and at times defensive, particularly in the region of things that I care about. I'm a DREAM lover to the max, it's the best part of my college experience. At last night's meeting, certain new mentors were quick to critique the way DREAM is being run and what should be changed for next year. While I, and all of us, encourage feedback and constructive criticism and observations, I felt like our organization was being attacked the entire time. Maybe we, as older mentors, did not do our best in explaining how a lot of it works, but I was pretty sure eveyone gets the gist of it being our program, we set the swing of everything and plan and fundraise and organize it all by ourselves. Nobody received a training or a how-to guide, once you are accepted, you become part of it all, the whole package deal. It really hurt me that people were getting so negative and I know I allowed my face and a few comments to show it, but I was so shocked that people were just coming out with all of it at once in front of the whole group. When people bottle stuff up and let it explode, it can be a tricky situation. Uck, I think I want to organize the new mentors and a few older mentors together and discuss a lot of what goes into DREAM. I hope to clear up uncertainties.
I know I'm very sensitive and at times defensive, particularly in the region of things that I care about. I'm a DREAM lover to the max, it's the best part of my college experience. At last night's meeting, certain new mentors were quick to critique the way DREAM is being run and what should be changed for next year. While I, and all of us, encourage feedback and constructive criticism and observations, I felt like our organization was being attacked the entire time. Maybe we, as older mentors, did not do our best in explaining how a lot of it works, but I was pretty sure eveyone gets the gist of it being our program, we set the swing of everything and plan and fundraise and organize it all by ourselves. Nobody received a training or a how-to guide, once you are accepted, you become part of it all, the whole package deal. It really hurt me that people were getting so negative and I know I allowed my face and a few comments to show it, but I was so shocked that people were just coming out with all of it at once in front of the whole group. When people bottle stuff up and let it explode, it can be a tricky situation. Uck, I think I want to organize the new mentors and a few older mentors together and discuss a lot of what goes into DREAM. I hope to clear up uncertainties.