Blog Post 3

I've always liked having people around me. I don't like being alone, and I especially don't like being alone in a room full of people. Because of this, I tend to try to make others happy before I make myself happy, which is why I feel like my social role in my group is the supporter/encourager. I enjoy making people feel good about themselves, and giving them satisfaction for completing a difficult task or coming up with a good idea, or even just for being a part of the group. I feel like I can relate the Quackling, in the folktale Quackling, because on his journey to get his money back from the King, he meets new people and says, "One can never have too many friends," to each one, even when he has barely any space left in his sack for new friends. He is kind and supporting to each one, and I feel like I can be that to the other members of my group.
I also like to help people get to the point they need to get to, which is why the task roles I consider myself to be are the information giver and the opinion giver. I like to try to help others come up with ideas by saying something that might help us get to the answer, it might not, but maybe it will point us in the right direction. I also like to give my opinion because it helps the group figure out a way to best do things that everyone will agree with. I can relate myself with the baker in The Baker's Dozen, who at first gives his customers exactly what they pay for, no more, no less, but when a lady comes in and asks for a dozen and says she wants 13 in the dozen instead of 12, he refuses and she curses him. For a year he becomes very poor and then realizes that he should give more to his customers. He then is generous and the townspeople find out he gives out 13 cookies in a dozen. The baker is generous with his cookies, and in return he feels better about himself and becomes more rich, but for me, being more rich is helping others and seeing a group project come together peacefully.