Amanda- Journal Entry October 27th 2020

As the first trimester of our senior year rolled in, the 12th grade class has forgotten about the IB profile qualities due to the stressing process that writing and creating IAs can bring. For this reason I was happy my teammates in the Youth Taking Action group were enthusiastic about my proposal of creating a space for anyone in the Chirripo community to be open and talk about their emotions and struggles with online school and life in quarantine in general. Now it was the marketing step that followed it for which Kati and I announced in morning meeting to anyone interested in coming to our therapy session. We decided that 8pm on a Friday was the best time in that way everyone is relaxed and has already had dinner. In that way we can take the leading role of communicators inside of our community while following safety measures and made sure our caring and reflective attributes were getting used. Although not many people came, we still had lots of fun and decided to do a couple of activities in order to share our emotions such as giving a rose, a bud and a thorn so far for this trimestre. Then we continued to talk about struggles in our life outside of school and gave each other tips on how to improve our physical and mental health. For this reason, we decided to make another therapy session through zoom schedules for this friday October 30th with the aim of bringing more people in through better and more effective marketing strategies.