This week was a full week of work. My group finished our books (mostly) and have a good start on our picture notes and website. Something that was unexpected was the amount of friction in my group. We're all intelligent and understanding people, but this project is testing our limits a little bit. A key ingredient in group projects is open mindedness. If you are not open minded, no work will be accomplished. There has been disagreements and a few minor arguments while trying to pick our topic and also on determining what our big question would mean to us. We're trying to be a cohesive group while holding contempt for some team members. This back and forth that we're going through is also present in the book Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo's clan is facing opposition with the missionaries that come to teach them, but many vlan members respond to these strangers with anger and aggression. The best way to work through problems like these is to talk openly and freely about what isn't working and what could work instead. We've just got to hang on and trust each other that what we're doing will eventually turn into one cohesive project. In a song called Hang On Little Tomato, there are lyrics that read; "Just hang on, hang on to the vine Stay on, soon you'll be divine If you start to cry, look up to the sky Something's coming up ahead To turn your tears to dew instead." We are little tomatoes, and we need to work together and hang on to each other and our ideas. There hasn't been anything that tomatoes haven't gone through. We can do this.
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