July 20th

Jay Greening came in and spoke to the class at the start. Jay represents our district and I know him well. I found it interesting that his demeanor was upbeat and I could tell he enjoyed speaking to the class. He made several good points but the one that hit home was doing your homework prior to negotiations. This became evident in our simulation that took part later in the day. We had a misunderstanding and to be truthful it was more of a mistake. I am glad it happened because our group wasn't taking the exercise too serious. We were doing the work and all but we were not real into it and focused. The mistake was something we were willing to do anyway but just not at that time. I have to get props to Joe for calling us on it they were obviously much more in tune to it than we were. It just really hammered home Jay's point about doing your homework and being prepared.