Peer-Counseling Activity

This activity was actually very fun even though it started out slightly awkward because no one had anything to say. Not only did it take up class time, we could sit there and talk about whatever it was that we wanted to (sort of). For building up friendships, the ideas started out all proper and expected like respect and trust but gradually evolved into suggestiong like Cue! and some ramen store. I don't think this activity really brought our group together though. I still don't really talk to any of the seniors and they sometimes seems a bit intimidating just because they're seniors and I'm a junior. Maybe it's just a mentality thing for me. This has happened every single year except fifth grade and eighth grade. For things that destroy friendships and prevent people from getting to know each other, I thought that our list seemed a bit cliche since our first words were dishonesty and gossip. Those are lessons we're taught since we learned how to speak. My mom always told me not to lie for as far as I can remember. The situation we were given was a bit hard to come up with a solution to though. I honestly cannot say that I would speak up and get an adult if a kid was being bullied, especially if the people bullying him had the power to make my life miserable. The scenario we were given was also hard because it could not be interpreted as whether the kid was making fists because he was angry or if he was upset. I wouldn't want to accidentally bring an adult in when he was just trying to prevent himself from crying because there had been something going on in his family or something. Life is full of really hard choices.