It's a wonderful world
Last night I went to a... meeting organized by a couple a friend and her housemate. They're meetings to 'help women be creative in a non-creative environment' and they happen every week. And I loved it. It was amazing!
We decided to tell our life stories through tableau images. So we practiced with archetypes: each girl would get into a position that represented "mother" and then something of their own choice (mine was 'euphoria') and everyone else would walk around, observe the position and make comments on it. The insite was amazing. "Her back seems arched, like she's protecting something", "Maybe there's something heavy weighing down on her". You discovered little things about yourself and the other people talking that are so insightful!
One of the girls brought her mom, a latin american woman who was nice but very shy. We invited her to get into tableaus and participate, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. At the end of the night, after we'd all opened up, she started to say her goodbyes.
"Well girls, we have to get going but thank you so much, this has been great. I love to see that Andrea and all of you girls have an outlet and the ability to express yourselves, because I come from a community where it's that's not possible, where that's not allowed." And she just began to tell us her life story! It bubbled out of her and she cried and we cried. I guess there was a lot of oestrogene in the room, but it was beautiful and amazing that after seeing us all express ourselves she just couldn't keep it in. And also that in the end she felt comfortable in the setting to open up. I was so touched and I'm SO excited to go back next week!
I knew all of the girls in the group last night, except for one, and I'm so excited to get to know them more, because I really feel that it gives you a deep connection. You learn so many secrets and form deep connections. It's like group therapy only 20 times better!
then I came home and thought "hmm, I should go to my room, do hw until 12 and go to sleep" but instead i called this guy I met in the elevator last week who lives in the second floor. We hung out for at least an hr and then we ended up making out on his couch. I don't know if that was too fast. But he's cute and things flow between us, and I kind of get the feeling he's into me. For more than just a booty call. He added me on facebook the minute he got back to his appartment, when I called him on wednesday to hang out he was at an on campus concert and he said "oh, no! Now I want to go back home!" and at the end of the night he said we should go to lunch today. I don't know what'll happen, but right now... right now... life is good.
:)
We decided to tell our life stories through tableau images. So we practiced with archetypes: each girl would get into a position that represented "mother" and then something of their own choice (mine was 'euphoria') and everyone else would walk around, observe the position and make comments on it. The insite was amazing. "Her back seems arched, like she's protecting something", "Maybe there's something heavy weighing down on her". You discovered little things about yourself and the other people talking that are so insightful!
One of the girls brought her mom, a latin american woman who was nice but very shy. We invited her to get into tableaus and participate, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. At the end of the night, after we'd all opened up, she started to say her goodbyes.
"Well girls, we have to get going but thank you so much, this has been great. I love to see that Andrea and all of you girls have an outlet and the ability to express yourselves, because I come from a community where it's that's not possible, where that's not allowed." And she just began to tell us her life story! It bubbled out of her and she cried and we cried. I guess there was a lot of oestrogene in the room, but it was beautiful and amazing that after seeing us all express ourselves she just couldn't keep it in. And also that in the end she felt comfortable in the setting to open up. I was so touched and I'm SO excited to go back next week!
I knew all of the girls in the group last night, except for one, and I'm so excited to get to know them more, because I really feel that it gives you a deep connection. You learn so many secrets and form deep connections. It's like group therapy only 20 times better!
then I came home and thought "hmm, I should go to my room, do hw until 12 and go to sleep" but instead i called this guy I met in the elevator last week who lives in the second floor. We hung out for at least an hr and then we ended up making out on his couch. I don't know if that was too fast. But he's cute and things flow between us, and I kind of get the feeling he's into me. For more than just a booty call. He added me on facebook the minute he got back to his appartment, when I called him on wednesday to hang out he was at an on campus concert and he said "oh, no! Now I want to go back home!" and at the end of the night he said we should go to lunch today. I don't know what'll happen, but right now... right now... life is good.
:)