The Holistic Nomads

Whenever a professor says “Lets get together, group project time”, all of my neurons die. I hate working with a group because I’ve had some bad experience. The most recent one was that I had to do the work all by myself because my fellow companions didn’t want to do anything and I didn’t want to get an F. I hate getting a bad grade on something that I can do really good. This happens all the time but there’s also when the people of my group don’t know the material of the presentation so they read all of the slides from Power Point. This proves to the professor that we weren’t at all ready when in reality I was but the rest of them were just plainly irresponsible. So of course it got to my head that maybe I’m just not good enough to work in a group project and all of these bad experience unmotivated me. There’s also the fact that I’m really shy and I don’t like with people that I don’t know because I feel that I can’t be myself. So when my English professor said that we were going to do a group project for her class, I groaned internally. But this turned out to be the the best thing of this class.

When the professor began to assigned the students for the group, I became really nervous thinking that I was going to get to stuck in a horrible group. Turns out that it was all the opposite of my thoughts because I was put in a group with the most funniest and down to earth people that I have ever met. My group is called “The Holistic Nomads” and it consists of Sergio, Anthony, Miguel(Scott), Isabel, Alondra and me. For the first assignment, we had to write our numbers, emails and the part the we were going to take in the group. I was the researcher seeing that I’m always with my computer. We immediately hit it off that we didn’t finished the assignment on time.  For all the assignments, we were the only group that you could hear laughing but that didn’t mean that we weren’t doing any of the work. That’s the best thing about this group, we knew how to have fun with each other and also do work. Throughout all of the hell that was this semester, I was always looking forward to working with these amazing people because they would brighten my day with all of their craziness. This is the first group project that I enjoyed and loved doing it. So I guess that maybe group projects aren’t really all that bad. It just depends on the people that are in it and if you’re lucky like me, pray that you get great ones. I’m goanna miss seeing my group every Tuesday and Thursday but I know that we will see each other on the university and remember all the great times that we had. It was a privilege working with the Holistic Nomads and to them I want to say: “Thank you for making this trimester fun and I hope to continue this friendship with all of you”