Ms. Tracy's Lesson-12/13/10

Today, Ms. Tracy divided us to 3 groups. The main idea was to divide us and give us a sheet of paper which tells about a culture and then in the end the judges see how they interact with each other. In my group I had Marijn, Nemke, Robert, Lana, Oguz, and me. Actually, there were 2 MAIN groups. The 3rd one were the judges. The judges were Remer and Stefan. She handed our group a sheet of paper. It said to pretend to be a Pandya ( a culture). It was a very unusual culture because it said they should not begin a conversation, they should only speak when its necessary. It also said for men to not talk directly to women from other culture. They have to tell the chaperon what you wanted to tell her. It was a very unique culture for me. We were practicing how to talk with the other cultures. After, she called us in. She said to pretend the chispas ( their culture) invited the Pandyas' to a party. When we started, it was fun to interact and pretend. But then, I got confused when I said  "Hello ma'm!" and then she said " I liked to be called by my name!". A little while later, after interacting with everyone, we discussed with the judges what they observed during interacting with each other. Finally, we told what Pandya's culture was. The chispas was much more better than the Pandyas. They were friendly, liked to be called by first names, and very social. The main thing was to experience what its like to be open-minded.