Odyssey

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week we all participated in an event called Odyssey.  It is a program that helps students fill their requirements for fine arts classes by brining in a lot of people to teach us new and exciting things!  During Odyssey you are given your schedule the day of and you are put into classes with people you don't know from all different grade levels.  Personally, this experience makes me nervous because I like to be surrounded by people that I am familiar with and teachers that I am familiar with.  This week in class we talked about macro and micro sociology.  Macro sociology is the study of the different groups that people are a part of that influence them and Micro sociology is the study of how the different groups interact face-to-face.  Also in micro sociology you study who the leader is, who talks loud and who talks soft, and which people participate.  This can be seen through the classes at Odyssey because we are all put into new situations which forces a leader to emerge.  Micro sociology can be studied very easily through things like Odyssey or anywhere that people don't know each other because you can see how new people interact with each other.  Throughout my Odyssey experience I was laid back and quiet most of the time and I wasn't a leader.  Now thinking back on my experience, it was interesting to remember how the people in my groups interacted.   

-Liv