Lilli's YDEV Journey

I’m 15 years old, and I am about three weeks into my first year of high school, I went to my first club meeting. This club was called SADD or Student Against Destructive Decisions. The advisor of this program was Mrs. Rowley. She works at my high school and is the advisor to the club. I knew one person and I was very uncomfortable in the situation. She invited me to come and sit with her during the meeting, and I became comfortable in the situation. Three years later, I became the president of the organization that became a large part of my life in high school. Mrs. Rowley built me up into a leader that helped me realize that I could change the world in my own way. Mrs. Rowley’s office was the one place in the high school that I felt safe and that I could be myself. She would let me do homework with her, even stay in my It was my senior year, and Mrs. Rowley became one of my largest role models. She supported me in every decision that I made towards my future. There was one point...

In Jenkins reading of Shall We Play , there are 6 P's these include, Permission, Process, Passion, Productivity, Participation, and Pleasure. Permission is essentially that there is this concept of a "magic circle", that is, "A mental bracket which we put around our activities which changes their affect, their meaning, and most of all their consequences. Process is essentially how the play occurs. Passion entails that what they are doing they should enjoy, or have a passion for. Play should be "open-ended, free flowing, self-determined, and thus as something which is experienced as a site of freedom and passion". Productivity is that there is something coming out of the play, there is something productive, essentially there is learning within our play. Participation is in the word, we should be able to participate in the fun whether it is watching or doing what ever is categorized as "play" for us. Pleasure is essentially the byproduct of play, i...