Mentoring Session: A Social Gathering over Steaming Tea and Delicious Dumplings
Every Wednesday for an hour, I and my eight mentees meet in my cubicle to discuss and share an update on our individual roadmaps. Last week, Tshering Choki, one of the new mentees in my mentoring group, casually mentioned her friends in other mentoring groups are going out of the college campus and engaging in other social activities. She said, "We should also enjoy and plan interesting activities in our mentoring group." I was extremely happy to see my mentees coming forward with different ideas to make our mentoring session interactive as I was, honest to God, running out of ideas to break the monotony of discussing and updating our individual roadmaps. It has been over a month since we geared our discussion mainly on the individual roadmap. I quickly scanned through the overt expressions of my mentees in the room and I could see a few heads nodding in agreement with Tshering's words. I asked for views and opinions from the remaining seven mentees. They spoke the same l