Six months later, here comes another bottle drive yet again.
From those sticky, Old Navy flip-flops to those newly-shaven legs soaked with drops of sparkling water, we really shouldn’t be expecting much of a difference to next week’s Bottle Drive #2. After tearing down bags and bags of bottles and realizing that the whole back area of the school had been completely full of ‘junk’, it took me six whole months to finally think about how we all worked as a team.
This may sound quite repetitive and lame to read over and over again but what can i say, it just hit me. We’ve all attended the same school for the past five years, and it is amazing how we were all brought together through this amazing program. To be honest, it is very difficult to get to know a person over the course of a year. Not to mention, a whole class over the course of six months and spend two whole weeks in a foreign country! This might be considered a challenge to everyone. However, I do have enough faith to reassure myself that by building a school in a foreign country with twenty eight other people I personally don’t know, with the exception of my so-called BFFs, that the thought of ‘not being able to get along with other people’ will forever be forgotten.
I must say, it is very difficult to deal with a situation where you feel like slapping someone for something they did. For instance, realizing that this blog entry was strictly assigned to be done yesterday. However, it is also very important to realize the fact that using physical force won’t make the situation any better.
Everyone expresses themselves differently which is probably why we have friends, and enemies. Some people may be perfectly fine with the way you deal with a problem or how you are as a person, while others may think of you as a complete annoyance. The point is not to segregate people who are different from each other, but to understand the fact that yes, we are different but we can sure get along.
We are all created with different personalities, and it gets tested when problems arise. We, of course, as human beings react. Whenever we get rubbed the wrong way, anger builds up. And this is how we’re different. Some people have full control of their emotions that dealing with anger issues is completely effortless. However, there are others who ‘lose their cool’ and may probably end up storming on someone just so they could release their emotions. We need to be able to understand this because it happens every single day and think of a good way to deal with our differences. Clearly, physical abuse nor verbal slaughter is definitely not a solution. It’s important to be aware of our differences and realize that having different personalities is never considered a problem, how we deal with problems is what makes us different.
