NOT! Alright, imagine this. A game where a small amount of people stand in a circle, one person holding an easy-to-catch ball. The person throws the ball to any person in the circle, excluding the person directly beside them. Then the person sits down. The first group to have everybody sitting down wins.
How simple.
The original game was to have one big group instead of two little ones and have nine objects instead of one. Four green beanbags, four orange beanbags and the ball. We also had to catch them in a a certain sequence - green, orange, green, orange, ball, and vice versa. But we had to modify it to make it simpler because we were so terrible! AND GUESS WHAT? The actual point of the game wasn't the catching, it as remembering the sequence! All over the place, people were mucking up. Standing with their hands in their pockets staring vaguely at a computer and getting hit in the face as a result. People screaming other people's names like lunatics and not being able to hear because everybody starts doing the same as a result. People forgetting to sit down and catching the ball twice in a row which ends the game as a result. And people DROPPING DROPPING DROPPING and ending the game as a result.
(Whining): Well, you try it then, smarty-pants!
Seriously. Try it, and put a comment on this post telling me your result! (Still whining)
P.S: Trick or treat!
Today we played the same game as last week, called All Or Nothing. It's one of those things that sounds really confusing if somebody tries (and fails) to explain it to you, but when you do it, it's actually fun and easy.
All Or Nothing is exactly like that, so you'll probably get bored of this blog post pretty easily. But, go away, get some glue... waiting, waiting... right, got your glue? Good. Now open the lid - no, clockwise, dingbat, not anti-clockwise... good, now squirt glue on your eyes - don't grizzle like that, you'll thank me later - then put your eyeballs up against the screen. Come on, it's not that hard. A million dollars is yours if you successfully glue your eyes to the computer screen! Right, done it?
JUST KIDDING!
Forget the million dollars, and read carefully. Oh, that's right - you don't have a choice! Ha-ha! Now, I'm going to tell you how to play All or Nothing...
Alright, so a big group is split up into two or more reasonably even teams (we played with three.)
Then, each group lines up in a line, side by side. One you've done that, put four hoops in a vertical line in front of each team. Right, once you've done that, place a little rubbish tin in the first hoop, the hoop closest to the first person in line. Each person first in line must be holding a small, soft object - E.G: A mini beanbag.
OK, you're all set for your game.
The first person in line, the one holding the beanbag, must aim to through the beanbag in the rubbish tin, which is in the first hoop. If they fail, then they must run back and hand the beanbag to the next person in line. If they succeed, then they must move the rubbish tin into the second hoop, stand behind the second hoop with the beanbag, and throw the beanbag to the next person in line. If they catch it, then the person who caught it must try to get the beanbag in the rubbish tin which is now inside the second hoop. If they drop it, then they must move the rubbish tin back to the first hoop.
The game carries on like this until somebody has gotten the beanbag in the rubbish tin which is in the fourth hoop, stands behind the fourth hoop and throws it to the next person in line. If they catch it, they WIN!!! (Victory dance!) But, if the person drops it, then the rubbish tin is moved back to the first hoop, as you already know.
This game will frustrate and agonise you - a very good way of entertaining yourself!
What is sustainability anyway? Yes, it's the name of my blog post, but what does it actually mean? Here's the dictionary definition:
Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
Which, basically means, the ability to sustain something or keep something going. Now, why exactly am I rabbiting on about the ability to keep something going in the middle of a blog post at Enrich, a school for the gifted, in Invercargill, New Zealand? Well, before you think I'm mad, today, as part of looking at the topic of environment, we looked at four kinds of sustainability's - social sustainability, economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, and cultural sustainability.
Ha-ha, you have no idea what I'm talking (or typing) about, do you!? Well, economic sustainability is all to do with money. We had a big, long, complicated talk, mostly between Darryn, one of the teachers, and Hutch, one of the students, about Greece and how they're going into a riot because they have gone bankrupt. That just proves that when you're going broke, don't trot down to the shops and buy yourself a nice red-and-white polka-dot bow tie that costs an arm and a leg. That's how everything that's going on in Greece has happened - they have spent more money than they could afford. To put it in human language, economic sustainability is the sustainability of your money. Oh, by the way, or more information on the riot in Greece, click on this link:
http://rt.com/news/greece-strike-demonstration-athens-011/
Now, what is environment sustainability? I'll tell you what it is - that's if you haven't already become bored of this blog post and gone to watch the grass grow.
Environment sustainability is keeping the environment the same, as it should be, not changing it to make it worse. We actually didn't do much on environment sustainability. Leave that to the hippies.
The next one we did was social sustainability. Which quite simply means mostly "relationships" and being friends and sustaining that and - oh, well, you can sort of tell what it's about from what it's called, sustaining social relationships between cultures and countries, and even best friends.
And, last of all, we did culture sustainability, which means respecting other's cultures, not offending other's cultures, etc., etc.
Have you noticed something that I would never noticed if Hutch hadn't pointed it out? That's right - all these kinds of sustainability's are linked in some way! I'll leave you to ponder how they're linked - maybe I'll fill you in on my next blog post. Tell you what. If you think you know how they're linked, then post a comment on this post telling me what you think, then in my next post I'll tell you who was right, if anybody actually got it right, and if I actually got any answers. And remember to check out that link about the Greece riots.
