Today was our diversity day with the Links. Penn College owns land up on this mountain and there is a cabin for people to host retreats. It has a really cool deck over looking the valley. And the temperature was nice and cool!!!
The Links had been working on a privileges journal and a few questionnaires on how diverse they are prior to going up there. During the day, we had several activities to help them recognize their own privileges and diversity. In many of the activities we (or maybe just I) found out a lot of things I did not know about people. My hopes were probably a little high for the talk I thought we would have. Some people opened up, some didn't. I tried to open up some gates by talking about my own experience but that worked to an extent. I think they are still a little nervous talking about those subjects around each other, afraid of saying the wrong thing. That's ok though. I was probably the same way when I was 20-22 years of age. I did have a pretty awesome conversation with Bryann Bingaman about Fraternity.
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