End of assessment.... thank goodness.

Our sessions ended at 3:00 today, 6 hours earlier than they've been ending; glory be! Instead of feeling like 2 days, today only felt like 1 and 1/2. We've made it through assessment in one piece and are all still getting along with each other. I can't remember whether or not I've mentioned this and I'm too lazy to go back through my other blogs and see, but it's been a blessing being a part of a group of singles because we can share the joys and hardships of our single status together. After completing our last task as a team, we, the singles of the group, went out for sushi and enjoyed relaxing and not feeling like every second of our time was planned out for us.
As far as the actual assessment for today goes, the tone was different from the previous 1 and a 1/2 days (have we really only been doing assessment for that short a period??). During the morning, we had to prepare and complete our final task in between interviews. That part was stressful as we felt the time crunch towards the end, but the interviews I really enjoyed. I enjoy face-to-face, one-on-one interaction with people. I went through two interviews, one with Dezma and Linda, and the other with Bill, someone from the Center for Organizational Ministry and Development (something along those lines anyway). The first went by really quickly. Linda and Desma both had a lot of questions that we didn't have nearly enough time to get through. At the end they both said they were having a really hard time because they were wanting to identify with me as they're both introverted, but they have to be objective in their analysis.

The second interview was something I'd been curious about all week. I have a rather odd obsession with personality tests (I take the Greek saying "know thyself" very seriously... or something). Hearing somebody repeat back to me what goes on in my head in a way that made sense in English was a little weird; and that was basically what happened. I'd taken the actual test back in September and really had been wondering about what kind of freak I'd turn out to be. Apparently I'm a weird one, but that's ok. I think we're all a little weird. Some of the highlights of that interview were my irrational fears of people, my love for intellectual challenges and how my desire for intellectual challenges makes me get bored and want to move on when I get stuck in one thing (ADD basically), how I love art and music and beauty and all of those things help me focus on something outside of myself, how I deal with conflict by diffusing it with humor and how sometimes I shouldn't do that. It all gave me a lot to think about and helped me see some of my strengths and weaknesses and how they play for and against each other. It was more in depth than I'd expected, and by far the most accurate explanation to me of myself.

After that, we completed our "task" and were free for the rest of the afternoon. Funny that I wait until 11 to finish my blog for the day...