For this week’s collaboration, the huge obstacle happened on the communication, which is a result of different personality, different cultural background and language barrier. I had a mental breakdown because of that. And I am quite sure I am not the only one. But things are working out within one day like a miracle. We reached to an agreement on how to communicate with each other and the role in the teamwork. Thanks to all of the effort that our course leader, tutor, friends, my teammates and I put in to make things better. Frankly speaking, for this week, I consider the communication part is more difficult than the project itself. So I am really proud of myself and thankful to others because we did an amazing start for the collaboration unit. Everyone is putting effort to create a more positive space for each other to express themselves.
This reading of the week helped me with the speculated future. Actually, this is the first time for me to be in a reading group sharing readings with others. I found that I am more interested in visual things, so for this week, what impressed me most is a short video named The Mailbox. I think the structure of this video is very clear. I had new inspirations not only from the story of the time travel aspect, but also a way to form a story. So I think for the speculated future, my thinking process should also have a very clear structure.
Meanwhile, we also discussed the general idea and the place for sightseeing. The general idea is still developing. My teammates raised the topic of HOME, which is interesting, and we also discussed about working happily, which I am more interested into. But either way I am happy to discover. And for the place for sightseeing, everyone is looking into it by primary research and secondary research. As for now it is an individual research phrase, I visited the google building as it is very near to our campus. On the internet, it is said that Google’s new London headquarters in King’s Cross is set to be completed in 2024. This is the first, wholly owned and designed Google building outside the US. As I am a fresher to London, I do not know if it is very newly opened. But from my own experience, I noticed that on the second floor (maybe) of the building, there is a gym in which some employees are exercising. Personally, I would prefer a company that give me space to do exercise, it makes more energetic. And inside of the building, I can see some very colorful paintings, it makes feel dynamic. And I attached some pictures to make it more visual for you to understand.
All in all, this week is a fresh start towards many new things, new unit, new teammates, new timetable, new reading group, new experience towards conflict, etc. I think I already learned a valuable lesson of collaboration.
