Confession, day one.

I really enjoyed a lot of today's confessions, so it was hard for me to pick one to elaborate how strong I thought one really was over the others.  However, I have to say that Andrea's piece was really beautiful and really touched my heart.  At first, I looked at the table with her confession set up and did not understand what each piece was supposed to stand for.  I love that she beautifully wrapped the letter around the knife and fork as sort of an idea for solution, a healthier way of living for her father.  I love that she chose to light the candles, giving the table a glow, clearly symbolizing something that she held intimately to her heart.  And on the topic of hearts, the bell pepper.  She clearly put a lot of thought and effort into her piece as well as emotional input.  It was so bold of her to get up in front of the class and confess this issue that is really difficult for her to express and even showed her attachment through her tears.  I think it was a good expression for her to read it out loud as a kind of shout out to her father, who she has not yet read it to.  It was shown to have touched a lot of people through the tears others shared with her, including myself.  So good job Andrea! I want to shout out to the girls that were in my first discussion group as well, Erika, Kate, and Britta all did an amazing job executing their projects and I'm really proud of them all.  Although I do not want to put anyone down, we are asked to do a comment upon the project we thought was a bit weak as well.  Although I like the idea of Walter's poster board, and relate to the escapement of singing in the car, I did not love the way it was presented.  It may have been meant to feel childish, but I thought it was a bit too cartoonish.  It took away from some of the meaning of his escapement and didn't really touch me in the way I think he hoped it would have.  The message was not too clear as well, I thought he was going to talk maybe about a runaway experience and how he escaped everything surrounding the center.  I also did not feel it was much of a confession rather than a statement of fact.  I'm not sure how, but I wish he would have executed it in another way.  Excited for Thursday's confessions!