Day 14: What! Class on Sunday?!

May 20, 2012

Today the girls in my room woke-up to another girl yelling, “You have class in about 2 minutes.”

Miscommunication at its finest.  We thought that we didn’t have class, but our professor thought we did. So like the good students we rushed to get ready and ran over to class.

In class today, we talked about conflict. A few of the girls gave example of conflicts in their lives.

Our discussions made me think about the different conflicts I’ve had in my own life.  

Mostly I’m a drama free person, but I can think of two example of conflict in my life.

1. In high school my two best friends and I had a falling out

2. Freshman year of college one of my best friends all the sudden didn’t want to be friends anymore.

Those are not my favorite memories, but I’ve learned a lot from the conflict.

- Forgiveness is not overrated

- Talking is necessary

So now, whenever a conflict arises I go through a few steps in my head to evaluate if I’m just overacting. Then if I decided that I’m not, I take action.

I talk to the person, and then if it works out, it works out. If it doesn’t, well at least I tried.

After class we walked over the a little Baptist church that took place in the same building as the Samoan church.

This little Baptist church may have taken place in the same building as the Samoan church, but that was basically the only thing that the two had in common.

After church we went to grab a bit to eat at McDonalds.  While we were at McDonalds we talked about the different things we were going to do that day. It was decided that we would go visit a beach where a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean Four was filmed. 

Before we left for the beach we worked on some homework.

After a few hours of homework we piled in the vans and headed to the cove. On the way, we stopped for dinner. I can’t remember the name of the restaurant we went to was, it was a local restaurant. I kind of reminded me of a Paneras type of restaurant because you ordered at a counter then you the brought the food over. It was delicious.

Then we went to the beach and watched the sunset.