With a smaller group than usual, we had a more informal House meeting. We chatted about everything in general, the past few days, the wellbeing projects, the plans for the break.

The difference between “peer pressure” and ” encouraging” was the topic to a small debate which allowed Aryan to learn the meaning of the word “connotation” 🙂

It was easy to find a consensus… in general, peer pressure is linked to something negative whilst encouraging is normally out of a good intention.

In Portugal we have a saying… “Conversations are like cherries”; you have one, and another one, and another one… and it was this way that we ended up doing a quick briefing on how these first weeks after the break have been. Ghassan confessed that it was taking him time to get back to his normal weekly pace but he was feeling more “focused” now.

These moments are quite invaluable, random conversations can be a source of appeasement and it’s good to share with the people who you live with.