Stepping out the comfort zone - 25/2/2014

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Today's class we went to the main building of the FMH. Our purpose of the day was to stay in the smaller groups and imitate and improvise in different places in the building. We started in a bigger group and followed one man a long time. When he noticed us, he was very amused, but continued his way to somewhere. After that we went together to the faculty's cafeteria and others started to improvise. Me and my one other classmate decided to find some other place, because in the cafeteria was too much people for us to start improvise. It was good decision, because it was more comfortable start to begin somewhere elsewhere.

Absolutely the best situation was, when we saw a group of little children sitting and waiting in the corridor. We started to throw a imaginary ball to each other and we invited children to the "game" also. They understand very soon what was happening and came along to throw the ball with us. Many of the children could throw the ball back to us, but some of them kept the ball of themselves. They were very interested and I could see that they enjoyed the imagination play, what we played with them.

All in all people took very well, when we imitate them or improvised in the building. They were amused, but many of them was also very surprised and maybe also little bit distracted. Some of them came along to throw the imagined ball but some of them didn't want to give up, when we imitate them. For example we started to follow one boy and his movements. He opened us the door and we followed his example. He was surprised that we didn't go inside and we just kept continued imitating him. Finally he pushed us inside and he was really winner of the game. Also really nice situation was when we interact with gardener. We started to take photos of him and he really started to pose in different positions, even thought he was at the same time speaking with someone in the phone.

I really, really enjoyed the class what we had today. I achieved my goal and I really started to interact, improvise and imitate more freely and with no doubts. Today I really got out of my comfort box and I'm really happy of that.