Communication principles

This week we are continuing on our project to help kids with special needs that are going to our school. Besides that, we are learning about attitudes and exterior look that can reveal a lot about us.

People are approaching us and talking to us, and it is in great measure determined by look on our faces, our external look or by gestures we do. If you have your arms crossed or in your pockets that can mean to some people you are not in good mood to talk and they wont even try to do so. But if you have you hands next to you, or only one of them in your pocket, that can mean that you are happy and opened to talk. Our look is in great measure determined by our mood, and our look is actually opinion we have about our selfs. If we are sloppy that can mean we do not care about how we look or what is going on. If we are too dressed up tough, it can mean that we think we are the best and that we are always right.

There is no ideal behavior and people will always have ticks, or gestures or something else. But if we realize it we can try stop it when it starts happening. I think we are learning this because of our upcoming start of work with special education students, and that we should know this because to them it means a lot more than it means to us. If they do not see you are interested in them, it will not be good and even tough it is not always on purpose it can seem like that to them. So always be aware of your gestures and actions and people will have a good opinion about you.

Friendship/help project

Today one teacher that works with special education kids came to our class to talk about those kids, and how we can be engaged in process of helping them.

He explained us what are situations with every kid at this moment, and what are difficulties they meet every day. He explained what are ways of helping every kid individually and what kind of help they need. He said that it is not gonna be easy in beginning but that we have to have patience and that soon kids will like us. All in all, everything these kids need is attention. They want same things we wanted a few years ago. They won't to be able to talk to someone, instead of being rejected; they want to be included in conversations and classes because  they are able to be, it depend on us will we except them or not. And if we have any sense for people, WE WILL. Same way as we wanted to be accepted when we were on their intellectual level, now we have to accept them and try in to help them develop, both intellectually and as persons. We will continue working on this project  and soon I hope we will start working with those kids.