Wednesday brought with it more lectures and group activities. Denzil Crooke, a Kittitian Businessman, spoke about culture and customs on St. Kitts. He tried to explain to the students that we are visitors to this place, and should not try to change the people to make them more like us. Instead we should try to integrate ourselves as best we can while maintaining our personal safety.
We had a campus living lecture, rules and regs about living on campus. Nothing new. Then we reviewed the group's "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" Personality Assessments. According to my report:
The four categories describe key areas that combine to form the basis of a person's personality
as follows:
· Where you focus your attention — Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I) — My result was Introversion: People who prefer Introversion tend to focus their attention on the inner world of ideas I and impressions.
· The way you take in information — Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) — Intuition People who prefer Intuition tend to take in information from patterns and the big picture and focus on future possibilities.
· The way you make decisions — Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) — Feeling: People who prefer Feeling tend to make decisions based primarily on values and on subjective evaluation of person-centered concerns.
· How you deal with the outer world — Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) — Judging: People who prefer Judging tend to like a planned and organized approach to life and prefer to have things settled.
Overall Description of the INFJ group:
· Insightful, creative, and visionary, with a deep faith in personal insights
· Sensitive, compassionate, and deeply committed to personal values
· Loyal to people and institutions that exemplify their personal values
· Guided by their personal values in decision making
· Motivated to seek meaning and purpose in work and relationships
· Likely to value harmony and cooperation; interested in possibilities for people
· Usually seen by others as private, intense, and highly individualistic
So, everybody had to take this little psych test and bring their results. First we split the room by the first category, introverts (31 students) vs. extroverts (64 students). Then we split again by the second category, sensing and intuition. In my group, Introversion/Intuition, we had only 8 people. At this point they split us into groups of 10 (or in our case 8), and gave us an assignment. We were to pretend that our group would be opening an animal shelter on the island, and we had to put everything we would do down on the big sheet of paper they gave us. We were supposed to plan the budget, building/site specs, etc. Then we had to present our ideas/plan in front of everyone.
The point of this exercise was not, of course, the actual planning of a shelter. Instead it was in seeing just how differently our four quadrants of groups worked together in achieving that goal. The first noticeable thing was when they called for a volunteer to present, the Extroversion/Sensing groups jumped at the chance to go first. The introverts were all trying to sink in their chairs. Next, the actual paper presentation of the project was very interesting: extroverts wrote all over the sheet, with graphics and notes in margins and crazy organization; however the introverts wrote everything in neatly ordered lines, and all in the corner so that 3/4 of the page was empty. Verbally, the extroverts were energetic and projective, while the introverts stayed focused and got done as fast as possible. This exercise was really helpful in understanding how to use personality types to pick successful partners in the future.
Enough serious stuff, on to the rest of the day! We headed over to the beach for some fun in the sun for the rest of the afternoon.
We had a campus living lecture, rules and regs about living on campus. Nothing new. Then we reviewed the group's "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" Personality Assessments. According to my report:
The four categories describe key areas that combine to form the basis of a person's personality
as follows:
· Where you focus your attention — Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I) — My result was Introversion: People who prefer Introversion tend to focus their attention on the inner world of ideas I and impressions.
· The way you take in information — Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) — Intuition People who prefer Intuition tend to take in information from patterns and the big picture and focus on future possibilities.
· The way you make decisions — Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) — Feeling: People who prefer Feeling tend to make decisions based primarily on values and on subjective evaluation of person-centered concerns.
· How you deal with the outer world — Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) — Judging: People who prefer Judging tend to like a planned and organized approach to life and prefer to have things settled.
Overall Description of the INFJ group:
· Insightful, creative, and visionary, with a deep faith in personal insights
· Sensitive, compassionate, and deeply committed to personal values
· Loyal to people and institutions that exemplify their personal values
· Guided by their personal values in decision making
· Motivated to seek meaning and purpose in work and relationships
· Likely to value harmony and cooperation; interested in possibilities for people
· Usually seen by others as private, intense, and highly individualistic
So, everybody had to take this little psych test and bring their results. First we split the room by the first category, introverts (31 students) vs. extroverts (64 students). Then we split again by the second category, sensing and intuition. In my group, Introversion/Intuition, we had only 8 people. At this point they split us into groups of 10 (or in our case 8), and gave us an assignment. We were to pretend that our group would be opening an animal shelter on the island, and we had to put everything we would do down on the big sheet of paper they gave us. We were supposed to plan the budget, building/site specs, etc. Then we had to present our ideas/plan in front of everyone.
The point of this exercise was not, of course, the actual planning of a shelter. Instead it was in seeing just how differently our four quadrants of groups worked together in achieving that goal. The first noticeable thing was when they called for a volunteer to present, the Extroversion/Sensing groups jumped at the chance to go first. The introverts were all trying to sink in their chairs. Next, the actual paper presentation of the project was very interesting: extroverts wrote all over the sheet, with graphics and notes in margins and crazy organization; however the introverts wrote everything in neatly ordered lines, and all in the corner so that 3/4 of the page was empty. Verbally, the extroverts were energetic and projective, while the introverts stayed focused and got done as fast as possible. This exercise was really helpful in understanding how to use personality types to pick successful partners in the future.
Enough serious stuff, on to the rest of the day! We headed over to the beach for some fun in the sun for the rest of the afternoon.
View from the road on the way to the beach.
View from the road of the peninsula and Nevis.
Natural salt pond formed by the peninsula.
Random goats and cows wander the side of the road.
As we got closer to the end of the peninsula, we saw more goats and cows. They don't appear to be owned, however we are assured they are. Most are in poor general health, some are even tied to stakes in the group to prevent them from roaming too far, and it is very hard to see them quietly milling about with no available water source. But that is part of integrating yourself instead of changing others; you have to quash your instincts and accept (at least to some extent) your surroundings.
Today's beach was really out of the way, no homes or villages anywhere near it. There are two beach bars, one on each end of the strip. The one where the catamarans were parked is owned by the husband of a Ross professor (parasitology, I believe?). There wasn't much shade here, unfortunately, so we spent most of our time in the water keeping cool.
Kristen #2, Me, and Chris. Kinda looks like that cell phone commercial, huh? More bars in St. Kitts.....
A few photos of the underwater life off Shipwreck Beach (not the best for snorkeling, too much current) courtesy of my friend Kristin #1. She's got a fabulous underwater digital camera, Olympus, 7.8 megapixels...in case anyone is interested in a nice 30th birthday gift idea (pops...). :)
Bar in the distance owned by professor's husband.
They were having a private party, hence the fabulous boats.
Other bar on the beach. Not nearly as exciting.
Kristin #1, who takes just as many if not more pictures as I do.
Another random cow escorting us home. They sometimes go into the road, sort of like living speed bumps.
This is road we took to get out to the peninsula, very steep up the side of the mountain. Not one for people who are a bit shaky on manual drive.
Marriott's golf course. Promised Paul I'd take a pic for him. :)
And I leave you with one more fabulous picture of roaming cows. I'm partial to the black and white ones.
1 people had something to say:
Hey---sort of got the personality exam. Interesting you had to design an animal shelter. Did you draw on your own experiences??
Sorry about the cost of toilet paper. But, I think it is best not to run out. At least you are not buying any gas.
Good luck tommorrow,
joanne
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