Personal Narrative: My Life Changing Seminar
Life Changing Seminar
Spending 3 days with total strangers made a bigger impact on me than I thought it would ever. At the end of sophomore year, I was given an opportunity to attend a seminar called Missouri Leadership Seminar (MLS). This seminar was just for one sophomore from schools all across Missouri. The seminar took place at the University of Central Missouri not too far from home, but it was a good distance.
Going into this seminar I had not an idea to expect. I just thought this was going be something with a bunch of strangers. I was expecting everyone was most likely going to be closed off, but I was wrong. As I pulled to the college, there was a building where all of the students would get dropped off, as my mother and I drove …show more content…
Once I finish with that putting my stuff in my room, I was lead to where the rest of the sophomores who had arrived were at. When I first walked into the gym, I look around and it was about 200 students here all ready and about 100 more coming. The very first guest speaker was a man and he studies, anthropology, but he did tell us this at first. He gave a sheet of paper that read “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”. As the group of people, I was sitting with and I read it, it was about a culture obsessed with rituals and the human body as a whole. They did many things that in America we would like were not “normal”. As we finish his told us who this culture was about, it was about modern American. Nacirema is American spelled backward. Once I read all of it again, I began to see the characteristics of North America. In just the first 1 hour of the seminar, I was already shocked. This writing piece “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” shows how you can view other cultures and how other cultures would view us, that even though it may be odd or foreign it is still their way of life.After we reflected on the article we got our groups that we would be with for the rest of the weekend. After a couple minutes in our groups, we got our warm fuzzies which those are things that
Spending 3 days with total strangers made a bigger impact on me than I thought it would ever. At the end of sophomore year, I was given an opportunity to attend a seminar called Missouri Leadership Seminar (MLS). This seminar was just for one sophomore from schools all across Missouri. The seminar took place at the University of Central Missouri not too far from home, but it was a good distance.
Going into this seminar I had not an idea to expect. I just thought this was going be something with a bunch of strangers. I was expecting everyone was most likely going to be closed off, but I was wrong. As I pulled to the college, there was a building where all of the students would get dropped off, as my mother and I drove …show more content…
Once I finish with that putting my stuff in my room, I was lead to where the rest of the sophomores who had arrived were at. When I first walked into the gym, I look around and it was about 200 students here all ready and about 100 more coming. The very first guest speaker was a man and he studies, anthropology, but he did tell us this at first. He gave a sheet of paper that read “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”. As the group of people, I was sitting with and I read it, it was about a culture obsessed with rituals and the human body as a whole. They did many things that in America we would like were not “normal”. As we finish his told us who this culture was about, it was about modern American. Nacirema is American spelled backward. Once I read all of it again, I began to see the characteristics of North America. In just the first 1 hour of the seminar, I was already shocked. This writing piece “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” shows how you can view other cultures and how other cultures would view us, that even though it may be odd or foreign it is still their way of life.After we reflected on the article we got our groups that we would be with for the rest of the weekend. After a couple minutes in our groups, we got our warm fuzzies which those are things that