Monday, November 14, 2011

Diller Baltimore 2nd Seminar!

The 2nd Diller Seminar Summary... written by Morgan Plant!

On this wonderful Sunday, the Diller Teen Fellows met at Eva Cohen's house for our second seminar. The goal of this seminar was to begin easing into our service projects. We arrived at 4:30 and began with an icebreaker in which we described an aspect of ourselves through our cell phones. We met Justin Hayet, one of our Junior Counselors, and began our first activity, a self-evaluation. I found it very impressive how focused we were and how quickly we got the evaluation done, you may not think the same. After completing the evaluation, we had dinner, in which we ate falafel pizza, and formally met Danielle Gelber, the other Junior Counselor. We then split up into groups to put together a puzzle. Discovering that there was one piece missing from all the puzzles, we discussed the challenges we have to face and that in order to succeed we must deal with that we are given and make the most out of every situation. We also discussed how this is related to our service projects and how we are helping to better the world. Upon the arrival of Cara Mazor and Neta Shwartz, two Diller alumni, we again split up into groups to discuss our service projects. We talked about each other's prospective projects, how to attract volunteers, how to overcome the troublesome time, and the grant process. In order to take a little break, we played the compliment game (please ask about what the game is all about- it's a lot of fun!). After getting off to a slow start, Leah and Reid proved to be the most worthy competitors, but Danielle lived up to expectations and was our champion. We ended the night by briefly discussing the upcoming Shabbaton and the Israeli seminar following it.

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