We had an amazing experience today. I feel culture might be healing, and Gaby was present all day. I really enjoyed that.
The dialogues were powerful, and I just felt amazed every little second. Never in my life I had cried towards a scientific reading. And this. This is what I live for. For this moments of AWE and beauty present in every second.

After the visit to the Museum Popol Vuh, we had a really bad impression of where our culture is. We noticed lack of self government, lots of pretense, and it was frustrating.

Isa, Kata and I decided to write a letter for the debrief, and we mentioned how the MPC could fail if we were just fakers, waiting for some authority telling us what to do.

People woke up with this call. Everyone had something to say, of how uncomfortable they were feeling. And for me, that was really sad. It's like being in a very hostile family, in which you just can't be real or confident. You just have to follow blindly the rules in order to not be rejected. It was really sad! 

Everyone noticed the way we were at the moment, and that awareness made a great work with our job in group. 

One thing I want to point out, dear blog reader, is that I don't give a fuck whether I get a degree or not. So, for that you'll understand that this implicates that I don't give a fuck whether the MPC is at UFM or there's a community of learners outside. I don't need to show anyone anything that I don't mean to show. No one should measure me. I will understand my standards. And that is a really good thing Alejo pointed out: I have my own standards. I don't need to compare to others.  

Isa read a letter in which she considered that our culture was going downhill. I agree. I thought I was the only one thinking that we were not caring anymore for each other, and that we were becoming alienated from others. I am really happy that we came to discover this in time. I wish we actually do something... even though some resentments were confessed in the debriefing, it was pretty sincere. We said what we felt and we agreed that we would maintain the integrity.

One thing I deeply want to avoid is that we behave differently when Bert is present. That sounds so false and destroying. So hypocrite. I am glad we spoke about this.

We decided to do debriefing at Jardin Ayau. It was sunny, but it was cool to sit down there, surrounded by the buildings, green, and the wind hitting our faces. 

I said that I didn't like my Euclid's presentations at all. A lot of people thought otherwise, but still. I have to improve my standards. I don't want people to take as a model something that isn't so good at all.  

    We debriefed twice. Once after the Plato Dialogue, and also at the end of the day.
    We noticed we didn't come quite prepared for the dialogue, and that is why the beginning was pretty tense. As the flow continued, the end of the conversation was warmer and really good questions were asked.
    At the end of the day, we discussed again of how can we stop being absent or late to classes.
From now on, the later one can be to class is a second before the assigned time.

06:59:59 for morning meeting then.

We learned that we shouldn't be extremely rude with our peers when we think we don't agree. When we disagree, in Bert's words, is because we don't completely understand.

That's a strong thing to say, but I think I agree. One can find the truth of the words of someone when they're talking seriously about a common topic.

Also, I notice that when we have guests we don't have to be show-offs. We have to be inclusive! AND clarify the purpose of the dialogue.

Because we were presenting November the 8th, we decided to start giving options and opinions of how the presentation would be divided. We agreed in certain standards (which we had been working since the morning).

Also, Ines today quit formally the MPC. I really enjoyed the time with her. She is a great human being!

So we had debriefing time after Euclid. No one came up in time, so we started the debriefing with other six of my peers. It was terrible, uncomfortable, but that is what we decided to do a week before. 

This is a video of the people, recorded by Alejo: 

So I didn't like math much. People didn't get engaged with the subject and made little group and started to gossip, while a little group was actually working in the problem. 

Kyle came into the class, and that is what he saw. So he approached us, the group that was working, and started helping us. Even though his help was really useful, I tried to make the class more inviting and tried to turn on the projector. But because it didn't work, I gave up. Also, I called some people into the small group, and even though it worked, other people was just roaming around. 

So we spoke about this at the debriefing, and people recognized that they were pretending that they knew when they didn't. This is a great step and can help us make the work better! 

Today's debrief was pretty intense. We had to meet up as always at 1.30 PM. But not everyone was there in the circle and lots of my peers were roaming around the circle carelessly. Bert talked to me, and I told him a little of the highlight of my day. Alejo and Diego were there and they asked why we started without everyone there. Then the question came to the table. Should we change the rule then? Because we used to wait for others for debriefing time. Then, we decided that people should stay out of the circle if we come in late.

It wasn't a pleasant conversation because some refused to actually listen and to try to change the rule. But, at the end we decided that we should try. Still, I think democracy doesn't work for our decisions and we should be more careful with just trying that solution when we have to choose.