Personal Narrative: My Team Journey

From my point of view, our team process was a journey, and in some ways, it felt like a marathon instead of what I thought would be an easy sprint. Early on in class when we were all introduced to this Leadership in Movies Project I thought it would be a fun way to work in close collaboration with classmates with classmates whom I had never known before. The task of finding a movie was the beginning of how our group started to bond. In hindsight, this assignment could be considered our icebreaker.

Once we picked a movie, I was so excited to watch it. The first movie we chose was rejected. Then we had to find another movie, so we did. The second movie we picked had Melissa McCarthy since she is one of my favorite actresses I was excited to watch that too. In all honesty, once that move was rejected too my motivation was hindered. I had watched two movies previously and since I’m not a movie watcher in general, watching a third movie did not excite …show more content…
After that was finally figured out we were all assigned parts of the paper to write. Looking back on it, I think it would have been easier for me to write the Team Process part rather than the part I wrote. I honestly feel like I understood the movie yet I feel like there was so much more to the movie than what I understood. I wonder if we chose a movie was one that I had already seen if that would have helped me in the long run.

Days after I had my asthma attack I genuinely considered giving up on the entire semester. Being that medicated and only getting a couple of hours of sleep a night was getting to me. The day of my asthma attack was on very early Monday morning. I was sent home from the emergency room around four a.m. and was exhausted. I had let my group know early on that I was not going to attend that night’s class. After my text went out each member except for one, announced they were not going to come to class that night