Beautiful Solutions

Beautiful Solutions day 1:

We brought in three non-electronic items that we thought characterized us individually. I brought in my planner, a mug, and my clip. I used them all at least once a day everyday. For when my hair gets mess or becomes an annoyance, I just use the clip to pin the pesky hair up and the problem is solved. I use it in primarily town different ways—just to pull the long hair next to my face out of the way, or to clip all of it up in a bun type of style. I love, love, love tea, so a mug was the item that I chose to represent my love. Just as well, I bring tea to class almost everyday in my mug, so it was only fitting. My third and final item I chose to bring was my planner. My planner is my life and I take extreme pride in it. To pick a planner, I partake in a selective process that involves many different types and careful review of each. So to bring my planner to class as a part of my three objects means a lot. We displayed our three objects on our desk, placed a piece of paper, then walked around other classrooms to comment on what we thought others’ objects said about them. I saw a lot of common objects such as a pen, pencil and eraser. Those don’t say much about a person except that they forgot to bring actual objects that they consider characterizes them. When I returned to class, I found that instead of a lot of perceptions, I found more facts. For example: you have long hair, you like mint green tea (still had my teabag in my mug), you like patterns, etc. Rather disappointing actually. We then collected interviews for one of the objects and I chose my clip to be interviewed.

Here were people’s responses:

-use clips to pin up hair (x5)

-to make fun hair styles

-to pin back pages of a book

-to organize things