On the first day of class Lacy gave each of us a string and some instructions to learn how to do string games! I was really confused at first to why we were playing with string in a college english class, but as class progressed we made connections with the string to school and life in general.
The first day of class is normally extremely awkward because you don't really know anybody and you don't want to put yourself out there and talk to people that you don't know. Lacy's class is not like that at all. She always has an intro to class that is fun and makes you feel comfortable and is relevant to what we are doing that day. I am normally very quiet if I don't know you but this class allows me to be myself and step out of my comfort zone while in a school setting. When I walked in on the first day of this English 1102 class and picked up a string and began playing string games I knew I was going to be comfortable.
I was sitting in the back of the room with two of my friends and we were struggling really hard to make our cup and saucer and we were getting a kick out of ourselves. Lacy wanted us to read an article and make connections between the article and the string games. My group made a lot of connections, one in particular was how you have to be willing to take risks with your string in order to make the final product that you want. In life, you need to take risks, like talking to the kids in your class, or else you are going to live an extremely ordinary life always wondering what might have been. I know for myself, I have a hard time stepping outside of the box and taking risks because I don't want to fail and have to start from point A all over again. Since I have been at college I have definitely become a better risk taker in many different aspects of my life. I believe that everybody needs to step out of their comfort zone and experience new things.
