Today something very interesting happened in class. So obviously, it was a dress down so that was extremely fun but besides this there was a 5 hour assembly that I was talking about yesterday and if I didn't then I'm sorry. But apparently, there was this group who's name I forgot but their name had something to do with the word Virtue because that was the main focus of their speech. When everyone was getting ready for setting up me and my friend were sitting in the front row. We were surrounded by 7 and other 8th graders behind us who were talking. And it just so happened, that one of the members came over to us and asked our names.
I was immediately shocked by this but tried to not act weird and told him my name. Of course, everyone who they hears my name has to take a couple of seconds of asking me to repeat it before they can get it somewhat correct. The only people that don't do this are Tibetan people and that is because for them Rinchen is one of the Dalai Lama's who passed away a long time ago. I wonder if that's what my parents were thinking when they picked my name, I'm happy it's not Tenzin because that name is pretty common in both Nepal and Tibet culture.
But the point is, he asked us if we wanted to come up when he called our names to do Jousting. I was immediately taken by surprise but all three of my friends shared our heads and looked at one another to see if anyone said yes. I was the only one that told him personally that I was shy and didn't have the courage to come up. Anyways, for the first hour the group was trying to get everyone's energy up and they were doing things like dance battles, relay races, and much more. I thought it was pretty fun but of course didn't raise my hand to go up because that's just who I am.
This is when the really "cool" but sad things happened. There was a bunch of things that the people said but their final message was that they are not alone and that whatever problems they are facing millions of others are experiencing the same thing. And that if they can just talk about it and have people too support them then everything will be okay. That's when they said that if you see someone who you are thankful for go up to them and say sorry.
And if you have ever hurt someone who was in that room at the same time go ahead and say sorry to them. It was really emotional because a ton of kids were crying and many of their friends were hugging. I wasn't crying just because I didn't drink much water but I was sad and thinking about my high school rejections. I saw one of my friends was crying because his father was pressuring him about this education and hitting him, I heard of this story before and the guy really looked liked he needed a hug so many people including me went up to him and hugged him. What I'm trying to say is that it was very emotional and a bunch of people were telling each other that they were thankful for them. One of my friends went up the stage and said that he is thankful for his girlfriend and she literally ran up to him and they had a little moment together. It was happy and sad at the same time.
I was immediately shocked by this but tried to not act weird and told him my name. Of course, everyone who they hears my name has to take a couple of seconds of asking me to repeat it before they can get it somewhat correct. The only people that don't do this are Tibetan people and that is because for them Rinchen is one of the Dalai Lama's who passed away a long time ago. I wonder if that's what my parents were thinking when they picked my name, I'm happy it's not Tenzin because that name is pretty common in both Nepal and Tibet culture.
But the point is, he asked us if we wanted to come up when he called our names to do Jousting. I was immediately taken by surprise but all three of my friends shared our heads and looked at one another to see if anyone said yes. I was the only one that told him personally that I was shy and didn't have the courage to come up. Anyways, for the first hour the group was trying to get everyone's energy up and they were doing things like dance battles, relay races, and much more. I thought it was pretty fun but of course didn't raise my hand to go up because that's just who I am.
This is when the really "cool" but sad things happened. There was a bunch of things that the people said but their final message was that they are not alone and that whatever problems they are facing millions of others are experiencing the same thing. And that if they can just talk about it and have people too support them then everything will be okay. That's when they said that if you see someone who you are thankful for go up to them and say sorry.
And if you have ever hurt someone who was in that room at the same time go ahead and say sorry to them. It was really emotional because a ton of kids were crying and many of their friends were hugging. I wasn't crying just because I didn't drink much water but I was sad and thinking about my high school rejections. I saw one of my friends was crying because his father was pressuring him about this education and hitting him, I heard of this story before and the guy really looked liked he needed a hug so many people including me went up to him and hugged him. What I'm trying to say is that it was very emotional and a bunch of people were telling each other that they were thankful for them. One of my friends went up the stage and said that he is thankful for his girlfriend and she literally ran up to him and they had a little moment together. It was happy and sad at the same time.
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