LEAD was about as elementary as yesterday’s lessons. When diffusing emotional situations you should make an I-statement. They include an emotion, an example and a consequence. “I am bored when we talk about I-statements for more than an hour like we did today, and I am getting bored with LEAD.” See it’s easy.
We had Cohort elections today, which was a dubious process at best. Essentially we have to elect people we may or may not have met at the various event to “lead” us for the next two years. We have a representative from each cohort on the GBC board (AKA Student Council). Then there are President, Social Chair, Community Chair, Film Chair, and Class Agent. I am vaguely familiar with the duties of each. I went to see the speeches which I thought would be entertaining. I was not disappointed. One group decided to run an entirely negative campaign, there were candy bribes, and the obligatory popularity contest. Some people really wanted to improve themselves and help the cohort, but I felt that most people wanted something to pad the resume. A fact of life…