We started out with more people, interacted with many, but at the core there were maybe 9 of us.
We came from different places and stages in life and met in the first webinar-workshop held twice a week for 3 months and lead by The Educator. After that, we stayed in-touch with each other, while some of us did more webinars facilitated by The Educator.
The original workshop started out teaching us how to establish and run our own businesses, and then we went way on from there. Our discussions always had insightful points which kept our intellectual wheels enthusiastically turning.
We learnt things from other people, and we taught things to each other; everything from verbal explanations to drawings on a White Board.
We heard from Guest Speakers who shared their experiences and learnings as they began, and then managed their own business.
We laughed.
A lot.
We made many things funny during our times together.
During those web-meetings, we could forget the bizarre experiences of 2020 and being apart from family, friends and an interactive world. Those days were ways to handle our individual fears, and to pass time as we all waited for next.
I once joked,
“By the time 2020 is done, we will be qualified in every, single, thing!”
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One of our fellow 2020 Crewmembers graduated from another establishment, so maybe 8 of us attended her Zoom-Graduation-Presentation. The presentations were set up in different groups and rooms. When our fellow 2020 Crewmember was unexpectedly zapped-out from 1 virtual-room into another in mid-presentation, the 8 of us virtually signed out of the then current virtual-room, and ‘followed’ her into the other. It was the funniest experience.
Zoom-following a person through different virtual rooms.
One minute the person is in a room presenting, the next thing the person is gone. And if that alone was not surreal enough, then the 8 of us proceeded to sign ourselves out of the original room, to virtually follow our classmate, Zoom tracking behind her. Nobody had seen anything like. It was all too funny.
Star Trek had nothing on us.
No one could stop laughing.
Our fellow 2020 Crewmember gained celebrity status, rocked her presentation, had an awesome display of her products, and all with a vibrant and aggressive groupie following.
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Another 2020 Crewmember encouraged us to each make Vision Boards. She taught us how to do it using technology, if we were so inclined. We took 2 weeks to make our boards and then virtually presented them to each other.
And here we were sharing our dreams.
I was still bumpy in the technology world since I lost my computer skills, so I did my Vision Board the old fashion way - on paper with magazine pictures.
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My eyes were still interesting, and I was one of those people who sat way too close to the computer camera and my face took up the entire screen and appeared to be looking into a fishbowl.
Fast forward 3 years and my eyes are better settled, and I can now sit back in my chair to look at the computer screen and I can see the funny mess I was then. More reason for The 2020 Crew to laugh.
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The 2020 Crew was instrumental in helping me through that interesting year. A time when I was physically alone, also in a new state, far away from physical love, hugs and familiarity.
The 2020 Crew helped me clarify many things with myself post injury, helped me to stay calm, and gave me the ‘kick’ to begin teaching myself many things.
Then the 2020 year gave me uninterrupted time to try different things and to stay focused on myself without diversions or detractions.
Thank you to The 2020 Crew and to the year itself. I managed to come out on the other side with new friends and strong sense of purpose.
Each of us are yet to meet in-person, and I do know that a certain 2020 Crewmember promised me a cake, regardless that her business has since expanded to another state and still far from mine. Just saying.