For the empathy lego workshop, do you believe that it’s my first time playing lego?! My partner Ribirth and I had a lot of fun and worked together as a team very well. We both speak Chinese, in this case, we used Chinese to communicate. The object she built was a symmetrical robot. She also made her instruction very clear for me to understand. So it’s easy for me to follow her instruction and build an exactly same robot. What impressed me is the result of this little game. Me and Ribirth never talked to each other before this workshop. However, right after this few minutes’ game, I felt much closer to her. (I don’t know what she thought.)
After the game, we did a final project workshop. (I will definitely feel less comfortable or confident if I have to share with Ribirth about my final project idea without the empathy game.) The workshop was broken into several parts to help us take one step at each time to come up with new potential ideas or solutions to our partner’s project. The short amount of time and clear goal of each step really helped me to focus on what I was doing: reading, researching, brainstorming and communicating. We both gave each other very useful and mind-blowing advice. I especially want to thank Ribirth for providing those amazing ideas for my project.