Enjoying the Challenge

by Josh Diaz

Journal Prompt

Sunday’s activities introduced themes of teamwork - how to identify leadership, distribute roles, enact perseverance and flexibility, and employ encouragement in order to “win” no matter the circumstance. What did you learn about yourself from those exercises? Can you identify some roles that you are gifted in, when working on a team?

My Thoughts

There was one game where we formed the ‘Dream Team’ for volleyball. We went against the high schoolers, but the twist was we could only use our non-dominant hand. On top of that, we couldn’t tell anyone. While the rest of our team got a bit frustrated, me and Chris just enjoyed the challenge. I genuinely had fun. I didn’t care about winning that game. Having fun with the team was more important to me despite being handicapped.