Pre-Trip toughts

Well at the moment I am at my roommates home. I will be staying here until Tuesday and then he will drive me to the San Francisco Airport early in the morning. From there I will depart to go to New Orleans. This will be my second time going to New Orleans and I am very excited about it. I look forward to working with my group, which is made up of Genevieve Klein, Amanda McNair, Krytine Yu, FatimaMohsin (she is one of the organizers of the Magnolia Project), Crista Lim, Angela Wang. Crista and I will be taking up some leadership positions for our group. For the first week she will be the team captain, and I will be the reflection leader. My responsibilities will be to facilitate discussions, and faciliate icebreakers which I have been doing some research on and have found some interesting ones. Also, with he help of Shelly, I will be be doing some exercises that will hopefully bring my group closer together. I will admit that I am nervous about faciliating discussions and doing those activities because what if they do not work, what if I mess up somehow. However, I am confident that once I start to do activities, those butterflies will go away. I am looking forward to just going down there and listeneing to more stories from the locals and helping them in whatever way I can. We will be staying in New Orleans for 3 weeks, which is a long time. It will be interesting to see what happens in that time span. I am sure some problems will arise but there will always be a way to fix them. I also hope that I can get my peers to write blogs, so that you can get a different perspective. Take care everyone and expect to hear more from me in the weeks to come.

Ebelio Mondragon