So today was tuesday and in Year 9 there was a game called the Trade Game. This was running through periods ( lessons) 1-3, it was basically a game where we all were split in to groups and we all became representatives of a country picked at random. Ironically.....I was the United Kingdom. :) So our aim was to distribute as much of a product as possible in order to earn as much profit we could. We had to cut shapes and send them to the bank, collect profit, buy new appliances to make shapes, trade with other countries and pay taxes all to come up with a total of (our group earned).................$24,754!!!!! YEY however we were i think about 3rd or 4th...:( BUt It was fun. And then afterwards we moved on to advertising so we had to make a jingle and a poster to advertise our 'British Shape Company' (its all a bit ridiculous...but hey) to the public meaning our fellow classmates. We creatively came up with 'Jingle Shapes' lol; so we sung jingle bells but swapped bells for shapes so It worked out well in the end :) The whole point of this is to convince us year nine's to take accounting, economics or Business studies next year...
It was quite a good start to my day back to school from illness :/ We continued our day and had normal lessons throughout school. After School I attended MUN ( Model United Nations) which was Ok, I need to attend again to make sure I like it....but I am now representing Peru in that and am currently researching on Peru's take on Nuclear Disarmament! Personally one of the main reasons I took MUN is because i NEED to read the news and start to know about global issues so I decided to take part even if It is not my favorite ( I could always resolve to reading BBC online if i want though :) Anyways in many subjects like History, Geography, Drama, English, MUN we are doing a lot of World NEWS related activities like Flooding in Brisbane and then trade around Europe so this is probably why I have based this post on all of this! I then have learnt of Fair Trade and I support it 100%! :D
I have not had a horse riding lesson for AGES! Simply because of bad luck.....the first time It was raining, second time i was sick, 3rd time dad was working......HOPEFULLY i have gained something from this experience. (Captain Optimism)
Anyways I believe I should go do something like sleep because it is officially 8:16 pm over here In Brunei :)
See you later
Amelia x