Lifetime Rec Journey Week 4

This week was hard for especially when I got sick towards the end of the week. I had lock myself in my room to rest and recuperate for two days. I came out after I started feeling better and checked in on all my residents and then invited all of them to go to the girl's volleyball game later that evening. Fifteen of them came along to support and we all ended up having a movie night afterwards. I just feel that during that two day period I had to take myself out of the daily on goings to get better and I knew that if I got together with my residents once I was feeling better that would show them that I would be there for them but they need to understand that I needed to take care of myself. 

One of the failures that I had experienced earlier in the week was a similar issue that Prasana had last week. In the eight man suite, there is a poster of Megan Fox in a lack of attire. During one of our floor meetings with the RA, I had asked the residents how they felt about the poster and how they would think other people would feel about the poster if they came into the room.  Since that is the largest room on our floor, our community is in there a lot so I was just curious to see what their thought processes were about the poster. Majority of them said that it was fine because they were "guys" and no one would see offensiveness with that poster. The rest did not comment on the poster and I did not want to drag them into an uncomfortable position of support or not supporting the poster. I felt that at the end of that floor meeting, they all reassured themselves that it was okay for them to have the poster up. The next day when I went into the room, the poster was taken down from the one wall but then placed in a different position where it was easier to see the poster. I don't think that I necessarily failed in terms of getting the poster down but more in terms of having my residents truly think of the meaning of the poster. I am planning on bringing it up again later in the month to see what their thoughts are now about the poster. This experience even sparked an idea for a Table Talk Wednesday..