A day in the heat
It is AnyTown time again, and the delegates have made their point- they are there to learn. I will spare myself the long rant about the arrival attitudes in past years, so I need to skip ahead to the really great group this time around. The counselors are excellent, mainly because they are closely bonded to the delegates with just a little professional distance. That is a great place to have the counselors.
The delegates are so sincere and eager to make friends that the exercises and nightly adventures have gone very well with only minimum effort. Besides, the director has hammered the schedule and content options down to a lower energy level that actually works. Everyone has much less to do so things simply flow smoother. That is as important as the quality of the counselors I mentioned first.
Tonight is the cultural presentations, and I am doing the presentation I hate most. I am the Buddhist culture group. I am sure I will do something genius when I think of it, but for now I am just going to give a very brief overview of the faith and some cultural references to fill in the blanks. As a closer, I will teach them to count to ten in Japanese and give the number calligraphy away. Easy so far.
The part I like best is that I know how bad an encyclopedic presentation is, and I will go out of my way to make sure my group is not just a boring guy-and-his-flag in cultural drag show. Even if it were, I think it would still be fabulous! It is the one man shows that are the most personal presentations anyway. Take it, my sisters and brothers…..