Role Models

       When I say role models what comes to your mind, is it your personal role models? Or is it how you can become one/better one? Or maybe its even the movie Role Models. Well personally I hope it's not the movie because that movie portrays horrible values of a mentor. While the movie is quite hilarious I hope that no one acts like that with their mentees.  While reading the chapter for this week it gave eighteen values that it thought was important to have as mentor. Not only is it important to have them, but to also try and to pass them along as well.  In class as an activity Amy and Rachel would write three of the eighteen values on the board and we had to first go to the side of the room which represented the value we thought was our strongest out of the three, afterwards we would go to the corner that was our weakest. I thought this was a really great exercise cause not only did it get you thinking about the meaning of the values, but also why you thought you were weak or strong at them. It really forced you to think within yourself and about your values and how you were strong at them or weak and how you can become better at them. I thought it was also great to see how the other mentors compared or contrasted with yourself and made me think that if I needed up on one of the values then you could always talk to them about how they got to have it as a strong value. I really thought that Rachel and Amy did a great job on leading us and can't wait to see them lead again.
       This chapter, whilst it was short, still held a lot of depth and meaning. It really is about teaching us how to become an overall better person and to reflect and teach this to our mentees. It also made us think about who we admire the most and why. What can we do to become more like them or what qualities do we already posses that make us like them. I hope everyone has a good week, it's suppose to be warmer so enjoy! Get ready for me and Jenna coming at you on Tuesday! Out!