Leadership Weekend

So this last weekend I volunteered to help with a Leadership weekend. It was really great. I met some great high school seniors from a variety of schools. Can I name these individuals from memory? Nope. Can I see all of their faces and recognize that I know them? YOU KNOW IT!! The weekend was great. A new friend and myself were their leaders for the weekend, basically to make sure they did not get lost. Who knew it would be me that would get lost at least once a day.

I tried to help this great individuals open up to each other and become friends by playing "The Line" game from Freedom Writers. Here is a link if you want to see what it is. The Line Game. Freedom Writers We all asked questions so each of the 11 kids, plus Kyle and myself were able to get to know each other and find out that we all have things in common. Especially since we all come from different backgrounds. We finished our leadership lesson with a final movie clip from the Freedom Writers. Link again You are the heroes everyday. It went really well. We showed that leaders do the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It was really powerful. Freedom Writers is one of my absolute FAVORITE movies. After watching it, every time I feel like I can make a difference in the world.

The rest of the weekend consisted of campus tours, dinner, skit making time, and also game/relax time and open rec at the PE building. I spent the night at the hotel with these high energy peoples making sure that they were all ready to go by the time we were to leave. That morning we did an egg drop seeing what people were most creative. It was a lot of fun. Donna Edleman the vice president of students spoke to us about what it takes to be a leader. It was very powerful, I wish I would have recorded her speech and presentation.

After the presentation we all performed our skits. Now, I made the HUGE mistake of telling my group I did not want to dance. They seemed to take it as "oh lets make Shaun dance and be front and center of the whole group". I dug myself a grave I did. Since I am showing everything else from this weekend, I should show the Skit.

The weekend was a great activity and I suggest everyone that has a chance to go to one to do it! I want to end this post with a quote from the Freedom Writers. Miep tells the students " But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenage can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room"