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 Our presentation was supposed to be an improvised recreation of the class.  Which was both....difficult and surprisingly easy.

I think, in many ways, we captured the feel of the class.  The arguments that were impassioned and even nonsensical (at times) but also really intelligent and pushed us to rethink a lot of what we'd spent years solidifying and developing.  We looked at topics in ways that were new or different even if the topic itself wasn't necessarily new or different.  Eva already posted up the script.  I thought what Carolina said was interesting...that it was difficult to capture the real thing.  I agree, but what I found more difficult was to capture the people involved, which was part of our project.  I had an idea of how certain people would feel on certain topics, but to capture *them* was far more difficult.  It was either a caracature or wasn't actually them.  I guess that goes to show that we can really only be ourselves and known ourselves.

The assignment also made me think a lot about my role in the class.  Did I have a distinct personality or view point and how did I contribute to discussions?  How did I alter the environment?  The culture?  Did I do that at all?  Creating the project was a really self-aware experience and I found it interesting to examine the class dynamic after we'd stepped away from it.  (Even though we'd done so very briefly.)  

It was a really wonderful class dynamic and I really enjoyed doing the project even when we weren't necessarily working on it and just spending time together.  I'm gonna miss this class.