We moved like the
elements! I was terribly bad at earth—Earth is not my element at all—but wind
was so much fun. I started thinking about wind and personifying it in ways I haven’t before. I thought of myself as one
gust of wind, one wind-person, and when I was by myself I was a gentle breeze,
playing through windows and over smells. When I collected in a large group with
other wind-people though, the power was exhilarating. As a huge group we had so
much power, the ability to move and destroy and rampage! It wasn’t malicious,
though, and it wasn’t sad to separate from the group, just different. If the
wind had that power all the time, we’d be in real trouble.
Water I was already suspicious of because we had to do that
in the journey of the neutral mask with Thomas, and that was an awful, awful
experience. I know I learned a lot, but doing the journey was stressful for all
of us and we all felt like we were doing something really, really wrong…we saw
him do it, and he did a good job, but if that was the payoff than it wasn’t
something I felt like I wanted to invest my time in, really.
Fire was a lot of fun, though. Crackling and popping with my
body was entertaining. I know you said no other group had ever made noise like
that, but I never made noise the whole time and it kind of aggravated me when
the other people in the class did. Maybe it was okay, but I felt like it
defeated the purpose. If you have noise to help you, you can be lazy with your
body and people will still understand.
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