Progress report:
Over the last two weeks, many changes have happened, and as part of that there were a large amount of adaptations that had to happen. For starters, Mr. Salisbury had his baby, so we were unable to meet up with him at all during the last two weeks, even though we couldn’t access the gym. As a bypass for no longer having a slot at the gym, Gyu-min found a park on his walk home that was hardly ever in use and had it’s Volleyball nets up! Through this opportunity, even though we don’t have any drills to run and were unfortunately unable to have any meetings due to obvious circumstances, we still ran though basic skill games like pepper, passing back and forth, setting back and forth, and even played slightly altered 1 versus 1 games. These games are structured so that each person gets three touches on their side of the net, and if the ball touches the ground in the opponents shrunken court, then you get awarded a point. We’ve been meeting every Wednesday after getting a week of solo practice in order to play 3 games, each with 3 sets of 10 points.
Wednesday, March 3rd was my win, 2-1: The first set was close, the second set was a complete win for Gyumin with him taking two sets back to back, and the final match was a complete win for me.
Wednesday, March 10th was my win as well, 2-1: The reverse of the previous week, the first set was a complete win for Gyumin, the second set was completely my win, and the third set was very very close, with it coming down to 7-7 on the third set.
In addition to this, I also played a bit of volleyball with my brother, as demonstrated by the included video. He seems to be improving quite steadily as well, which is pretty cool.
Video: here
Parallel Thinking- the Six Hats, De Bono Lesson:
De Bono Describes a new way of dividing up different ways of thinking, called the “Six Hats.” Divided into the White hat, which means pure information, Red hat, which means raw emotion or intuition, Black hat, which means critical thinking/judgement, Yellow hat, which looks for evaluation of benefits and values, the Green hat, which searches for creative options and alternatives, and finally the Blue hat, which helps organize all the other hats as well as the conversation. We already utilize all of these different hats in day to day life, and because I haven’t met with Mr. Salisbury recently, I decided to instead transcribe a conversation between Gyu-min and I. Context: Trying to plan our first volleyball meetup of the last two weeks, I completely forgot we have online class that day, we try to organize.
Devon (Blue hat/White hat): Hey! I just realized we never really planned anything for our practice tomorrow. Should I bring the Volleyball?
Gyu-min (White hat): Oh yeah, yes. So English ends at 2:30.
Devon (Green hat): Yes. We also have the option to go before.
Gyu-min (Black hat): Nope! We have a drama class.
Devon (Red hat): Oh!
Gyu-min (Blue hat): Don’t we?
Devon (Green): Yes, yes we do. Justin (my student director) said it wouldn’t be too long of a class for me though, so it all depends on Michelle (his student director). I think. But yes probably after is better.
Gyu-min (White hat/Yellow hat): So we can just head to Glen park and play for an hour if we wanted to after English. The schedule is iffy in the mornings for me, so i don’t think [we can go after].
Devon (Blue hat): I’ll bring the ball and we can skeddadle over after class!
Gyu-min (Yellow hat): Sounds good then!
This conversation showed that Gyu-min and I kind of pitched ideas back and forth, and I tried to pitch alternative options while Gyu-min used his reasoning to decide which to choose from. We both took turns leading the conversation, and made sure to clarify what we mean when we’re talking to each other. So far, we’re making great progress! Stay tuned for the next blog post.