Global Leadership Convention today. We took a train intending to go to Lidcombe, but a worker we asked told us to board a train that didn’t end up stopping there. So we had to take an extra train. Thankfully we were not late, no thanks to him.
We did three activities throughout the day. The first one was general knowledge, with a personality test, a riddle and a tower-building activity. We got straws and newspaper, and our tower failed. The Red Team (Angic) were the upper class and got special treatment, including breakfast (that she didn’t eat). They got a laptop to search for answers and basically, they cheated. All activities were for fun and not intended to be a competition, really. It was displaying inequality and how we feel about it.
We had some guest speakers and then we played another game wherein we had to work to earn money for our ‘family’. We folded origami elephants and got $1 for every 10, and once we only got $3 for 28. We had coloured bands (green was healthy, yellow was inadequate, orange was dying, and black was dead) and we had to buy health tokens that kept going up in price. It did not increase our nutrition, rather, it kept us from becoming completely malnourished. We could also contract Malaria.
One of the guys that ran the GLC was English, which I found amusing seeing as I was about to speak in a British accent the whole day. He kept making jokes and Angic and I were laughing so hard at every one. Especially that ‘the Chad is great’ joke. He was just like Natalie, rofl.
Here are some pictures of Angic concentrating as she is hard at work (finally getting some exercise):
June 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Look at my stockings. I’m in the upper class with a hole in my stockings yeaaah. :) Ahaha too soon? Ahaha stupid mean boss LOL.