[mr rochester]

Originally Posted by Jezzy

Both she AND Mark have a lot to learn about socialisation out of their (peer) groups.

I think this is a particularly wise and very well spotted observation indeed.

I really admired Fatima's empathy with the others and the way she encouraged them all during the first day - I was disappointed in the way she just would not let the argument drop last night though - I think she seemed to want to be right more than she wanted to consider the bad effect it was having on the rest of their group.

As for Mark - I think he is trying very hard indeed to try to reinvent himself as a nice person (this is a good thing to do for anyone) and perhaps sometimes he is coming under fire for it ...I sense he may be feeling out of his depth with the others (in Essex he is the big fish - here he probably isn't compared to the likes of Stephanie etc.)

It's proving an extremely interesting social experiment. I really don't think Fatima is aware of the effect she has on others as she seems genuinely surprised by how they react to her. Perhaps this will be what she learns from her journey - who can tell...