2nd week of school 9.4.18
First post of my 2nd blog. Letâs go.
Itâs 9:12 PM and I just finished typing up my last post on my first blog.Â
I wasnât supposed to buy food after school today, but I did anyway. I ate before I arrived at school and after doing research at my schoolâs library, I felt like I deserved a drink so I drove to a local bakery and bought an iced black tea. It wasnât as good as milk tea, but better than most drinks Iâve tried this year. And because of a YT video I watched earlier today,I decided to see how much food I could buy for $10. My tea and mooncake cost me a little over five dollars and my other purchase at a Japanese grocery store cost me almost six dollars.
I went over budget, but the quality of the food justified the price. Japanese food is still my least favorite type of food, but the drinks and the rice balls to me are products of the best value. Btw, the Japanese grocery store closest to me that I thought sold a certain alcohol does not sell it. Oh well. Although this grocery store is my second favorite,I found products that meet my expectations: rice balls and calorie free yogurt drinks.Â
In the past, I realized shopping for food and eating it feels better when classes are done for that week, but I felt like I deserved it because the research I did for my team project after class took a lot of effort which brings me to my main rant of tonight.
MY TEAM DOES NOT CARE ABOUT OUR TEAM PROJECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again, I am taking initiative for my team by doing the research to get us started on the project. First, I brought up the idea for the company to study. They agreed on it, but we still needed to select a country to expand the company in. I brought up one idea, but I said we still needed to do research. That was last Wednesday. With Labor Day, we had a long four day weekend off from school and within that time, the only thing we accomplished was getting our original team back together and adding one more member. Tomorrow is an appropriate time to finalize our choices for the company and country to study, but it seems Iâm the only one who is researching for this. Part of me wanted to assume they were going to text me an idea or tell me tomorrow, but from past experiences, I think theyâre assuming Iâll handle it without their assistance. BUT COME ON!!!!!!!!!
THERE ARE SIX OF US ON THE TEAM AND NOT ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO HELP ME OR ,AT THE VERY LEAST, ASK ME IF I NEED ASSISTANCE? IN THEIR SPARE TIME, ARE THEY ALL THINKINGÂ âI DONT NEED TO WORK ON OUR PROJECT BECAUSE IâM SURE SOMEONE ELSE ON THE TEAM IS AND THAT PERSON IS GOING TO GET US AN Aâ ?.Â
I mean, before the semester started, I said I would be fine working on the team project like it was my own project and wouldnât mind if the other teammates didnât assist me or take initiative. BUT, there was a girl on my team who gave me hope and who I thought would take on leadership if I wasnât being the leader, BUT, she has not done that. At this point, it looks like my team relies on me to come up with the ideas and divide up the labor.
Sidenote: This expectation of teammates taking initiative or leadership roles came from studying management during my first semester at the school. One type of management strategy was that there was no definite leader in a team; the expectation was that anyone in the team would step up and lead to avoid any hierarchy because of resentment towards the leader or boss. I always give way for anyone to become leader because Iâve been in teams where one person asserted themselves as leader and we had operated smoothly with focus. BUT, for the most part, Iâve had to get the ball rolling.Â
Ugh, research is kind of a nightmare because I want to get this right. If we donât chose the right country, then weâre going to be struggling through out the semester.Â
I have to go back to researching. Itâs 11 pm now.
Last note: I realized as I watched one of Elliotâs videos that he directed, filmed, and edited in the past...If he was interested in me, why didnât he bother selling himself? Why didnât he bother telling me what he does in his spare time or what heâs good at? Or maybe he doesnât want to talk about that because he doesnât do that anymore? Or maybe because he was drunk and didn't know what to say?
Or maybe he thought he could just talk to me and expect me to hook up with him? Boy! Why didnât he at least try to impress me? WTF?