True Colors

I think Yasmin is definitely orange.  She even said herself that she loves competition and hates to lose anything.  Yasmin doesn't seem to like authority and that reflects in her not really doing anything around camp.  She doesn't like to be told what to do.  Yasmin is a strong person and does well in the challenges though.  She can be a team player when she wants to be.  Yasmin is also negative though.  She didn't like the fact that they were talking about voting her off and she also interacted negatively with the members from the other tribe.  I don't think Shambo should have shared the clues with Eric.  I feel like she's made many mistakes already, and if she doesn't perform well in a challenge they may vote her off then.  Because Eric found the immunity idol, I don't think he would be willing to give it to her if it was her fault they didn't do well.  I think this takes her power away and gives more power to Eric because he is already a strong competitor in the competition. 

Tame that ID!

In the challenge, several of the Survivors were using cheap shots to try and beat the other team.  Ben kicked and tripped Russell right after Jeff explained that if he saw one again, they would be sitting out of the challenge.  It demonstrates the ID because Ben knew not to, but did it anyway so he could help his team.  Russell H. also demonstrated use of the ID when he came up with the alliances to get others voted off.  He creates these because he wants to win, and in order to win he feels that his alliances will work.  Another example was from many of them.  It goes along with the reason Jeff had to interrupt the challenge because others were not playing fairly.  Everyone just wanted to win and would do whatever to win even if it wasn't right.

Defense Mechanisms

When Ben was yelling at Yasmin, he was using the defense mechanisms of regression.  Ben called her "ghetto trash" and other names too.  I feel that younger people call each other names, and when you grow up it should stop.  But when Ben got angry and was being yelled at, he resorted to name calling to fight back.  This defense mechanism hurt Ben because it made a lot of his tribe members mad at him, especially Jaison because he was offended by the things Ben said to Yasmin.  Ben ended up getting voted off on the last episode, and I feel that it was because he was immature in the way he handled not only the situation with Yasmin, but with Jaison as well.

Second Impressions

After watching the second episode, I'm not so sure how I feel about John.  He was picked as the strongest swimmer, but he didn't really do that good.  It was like he gave up after Jaison beat him to the key.  When he came out of the water, instead of running he pretty much walked.  I still feel the same about him, except I don't think his chances of winning are as high.  John doesn't really seem to be a team player, and tries to do everything statistically and plan everything out first.  He's obviously the pretty boy on the team, and I think the others are starting to notice.  I think we judge people so quickly because it's human nature.  I think people feel inadequate about their selves, so they're quick to judge other people first.  People seem to know they are being judged, so they do the same thing back.  I like watching Survivor in class.  You get to see how others respond to being on a team, but competing individually and with a team.  Russell makes it clear that it is a game of emotions, and he used that as his strategy to try and win. I think it's an effective way to see how people respond to situations like this.

First Impressions

My survivor contestant is John.  I think he seems like a nice guy, but also very conceited and cocky. He feels that because he's a rocket scientist that he has a big chance of winning this game.  I feel he does have a good chance.  He was a semi-pro soccer player, so he's probably in good shape, he's only 25, and he's obviously very smart because he is a rocket scientist.