It is a training/learning opportunity and women's conference by the company, 3 Key Elements.
But, in addition to being trained all weekend, there were some funny/embarrassing/baffling parts of the weekend, too. :)
#1 For one activity, words to a song were passed out, and we sang together. It was a song that I was not familiar with, had never heard. The title is, "Princess" as sung by Galen Crew. In the song, there's a sentence where the lyrics pause....pause...pause while music is playing softly, then the final words of the sentence are sung after the pause.
So, here's my disclaimer: if you didn't know the song (like I didn't) and were only looking at the printed words on our paper, you might not get the tune/tempo/timing right, at first.
As we were all standing and singing as a group, the leader/mentor (who was wired with a mike) was walking through the crowd, and would touch our arm, signaling she wanted us to sing with her (and louder?!) Well, she came up to me, and at that moment, it happened to be that one part of the song with the pause! So, I'm all singing with her (kinda louder than I had been) and I totally jumped the gun on those lyrics that were suppose to come AFTER the pause, and I sang out strong (near her mike) during the pause! Woops! It was heard by many! AND the thing is; my premature entrance on my singing caused her to follow and sing at the wrong time, too! hahaha.
#2 For another activity, we walked around the room and mingled with as many other women as we could in a designated period of time. We were suppose to go up to someone and say, "What do you see in me?" And then, they were suppose to just look at us, and go with their feelings/intuition and say the first word that came to their mind. We would then switch roles, and the other person would ask us the same question, and we would tell them what we "saw." We were suppose to write down what everyone said, so that at the end, we had a whole list of attributes about us.
So, I'm going along doing the activity, and had already talked to many when I come to a new [younger] woman and I asked, "What do you see in me?"
And she replied, "Dumb S_ _ _"
Taken back, I asked, "Pardon?"
"Dumb S_ _ _," she said again.
By now I'm thinking, Is she REALLY saying that about me? Or is this the new "compliment" amongst the younger crowd these days?
But, just to be sure, I repeated back to her, "Did you say 'dumb s_ _ _?'"
And she said, "NO. Dumb s_ _ _."
Well, I was relieved she said, "No" but I was still hearing the same word that followed.
She must've seen my perplexed face because then she repeated it more slowly so I could understand this time, "Gumption."
"Oh, gumption!?!" I responded.
"Yes," she answered.
Whew! I'll take it! Following what I'd just thought I heard, that was the best word ever! Gumption: initiative, resourcefulness, ingenuity, sense, backbone, courage, spunk.
#3 On one of our breaks, I had to go to the bathroom, and so I headed to it. There was another lady entering the bathroom ahead of me, and the door was closed about half-way when I reached it, so I pushed it open so I could go in after her. The lady turned and stood in front of the door opening and blocked me from going any further.
"This is a one-person bathroom," she informed me.
Huh?!? How many bathrooms don't have multiple stalls these days? I just assumed......
Well, you know what they say about assuming.....
As soon as I realized what was going on, I apologized profusely. Poor lady.....she probably thought I wanted to "share" in her using the facilities experience that day - which I totally didn't!
Oh, dear. Just a sampling of the cringeworthy things that happen to me on a regular basis! ;)
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