Contributed by Claire Garcia
After much anticipation and the stress of the first few weeks of junior year WE HAD OUR FIRST DILLER COHORT 20 MEETING!
First, we got the chance to meet the many new faces of both our fellow cohort members and their wonderful families. We learned where people were from (i.e. where everyone was “reppin”), and saw that our cohort stretched from San Francisco to South Africa. We discussed the four pillars of Diller and their roles in everything we will do as a group for the next 14 months. We then finished up the snacks, said goodbye to the parental units, and celebrated our break from the confines of the room in the Jewish Community Federation and the 80 degree weather San Francisco was experiencing due to our favorite-- Global Warming!!
Once we enjoyed our pizza and fresh air, we headed back down and got our chance to finally meet as a group. We did a “Fantasy (Personality) Football” draft and wrote one strength and one challenge we'd like to work on about ourselves. Another activity we did was mapping our Jewish journey. We saw how different each person interpreted what that entailed and how they applied it to themselves.
We did an exercise with blocks where we answered questions on community, ourselves, our group dynamic, and our hopes. We then built a wall-- and thoroughly discussed the implications and meanings of that wall-- in which we showcased our blocks.
Takeaways: Well, literally, we took our wooden blocks and our notebooks. But we also got to establish relationships with each other, begin to understand each other, and feel the excitement and anticipation for what the rest of this experience has to offer.
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