Ex Class Day 3: Group Meetings

I have to say that I always dread meeting my groups, mostly due to the fact that I always find myself with a mixed bag.  I always get some people who wanna work, some who don't, and others who couldn't care less. I seem to have gotten a pretty good group so far, although we did find it odd that our fifth member showed up for class and yet left as soon as the class broke into groups.  The rest of Group 2 sat down and started discussing how we were going to tackle this skit and presentation.  To be honest, I hadn't finished the section we were presenting on yet, and relied on the others in my group to fill me in.  Having now finished the paper, I can still say that I have no idea what we are going to talk about.  As I said in my last blog, the characters in the book seem very stereotypically French. I find that while I have an easier time reading this book compared to others like Kant.  I really found myself having a hard time caring about the characters in the book, seeing as they didn't really seem to care about the world around them.  And that was the problem for our group.  It really didn't seem philosophical at all.  Most of the book was about a dude getting up, having a smoke, and going to his mother's funeral.  So our group got together and made some notes using the notes we had from the teacher, and made some preliminary conclusions about the book and about our skit.  I felt we did well, but could have done more with all the group members.  I hope that this next week will be more productive and that we can tackle our assignment with a better frame of mind.