Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Seeing Sideways class take away

The first day of Seeing Sideways, the awesome instructor, Beth, told us that for our ten minute break, we had to stay in our chairs. Our class chairs have wheels on them, so we rode the chairs around the halls of the IT building. I'm pretty sure to everyone who saw these hoards of people in chairs coming at them was a sure sight to see because it's totally out of the ordinary, and they didn't know if we would collide with them or not. The hardest part of rolling around in the chairs was making it out the door of the classroom, and getting back into the classroom after our ten minute break. The first few people  to leave the classroom crowded the door trying to hold the door open and cross the threshold at the same time. On the floor was a bar under the door, which was our second obstacle, our first being that we couldn't leave our chairs unless going to the restroom. The rest of us lined up to get through the door., and one of them was nice enough to hold the door open for everyone else leaving the classroom. Some of us struggled a bit, but a lot of us took it with little to no trouble. I had a lot of fun rolling through the hallway in my chair because it's something I had not done before, and I felt the little kid in me start to come out. I used to spin in the chairs when I was younger, and everyone would think that there was something wrong with me. I don't think they realized I was being a kid and having tons of fun doing so, though I was slightly dizzy afterward. I spun and rolled around in the hall of the IT building feeling a bit of freedom from being trapped in a boring old school room looking at four walls, a ceiling, and a carpet floor. When we came back from break, I kind of had a bit of a struggle getting back into the room because of the bar on the floor. I had little to no trouble leaving room, so I kind of think my struggle back into the room was because I wanted to stay out in the hall and continue spinning and rolling around the hall. I love to be outdoors, and being out in the hall was like being outdoors for me, and the classroom was like being inside looking out wishing I was outside. I think how it will help me in my "journey through experimentation" is by keeping me stubborn to give up because when I had struggled at the door coming back into the classroom, I never gave up my seat to get in the room, and I tried over and over again until I made it in, being careful not to fall out of my seat.

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