Self Esteem Seminar

Wednesday February 24th 2010 5:45pm

Not much happened yesterday after returning home from work. I read a little, called a couple of people, and watched some TV before calling it an early night and heading to bed around 10. Around 11, I awoke to a POW POW and the sound of explosives whizzing by over the roof. I could see out of my window that the small explosions were the results of firecrackers and small fireworks.

I slipped on my slippers, put on a decent shirt, and marched up to the roof, where I made a speech that made me sound largely like a stereotypical "old" person from some movie.

"Now you kids stop lighting off your firecrackers off of this roof, you hear? Where are your parents? Do they know you are up here playing around with fire? Some of us are trying to sleep you know, because we have to get up and go to work in the morning! Go on now! Scram! Skedaddle!"

I knew neither the words for "scram" nor "skedaddle" in Spanish, but the general "shooing" motion that I made with my arms got the message across as I said both in English.

This morning, I got up early to meet everyone in Plaza at 7:00am so that we could ride together to Monte Carmelo and be there by 8:00 for a Self Esteem Seminar. Naturally, we were all assembled and left Plaza by 8:00, and got to Monte Carmelo by 9:00.

The day was long and filled with team building exercises that had little to nothing to do with self esteem. I think I heard more discussion today on good parenting than I did about self-awareness, self-confidence, or anything relating to the general subject of self esteem.

We did do one exercise that I enjoyed where we wrote a letter to future selves. The instructor told us that these would be completely personal, and that we would not have to share them at the end of our 15 minutes of writing. 15 minutes later, we were asked to share our letters, and I recieved an uproar of "boos" from my co workers when I refused to share mine. It was personal! And I was told that I didn't have to share!

Upon reflection, I guess that it was nice to be out of the office for a change, but it was a very odd self esteem seminar that was without much talk on self esteem. I left slightly confused-which resulted in possibly lower self esteem than when I went to the seminar. Don't worry, I just got to type up about the incident where I told off those dern kids on the roof. My self esteem is right back where it needs to be.