Today we went to see a ballet performance called ‘White Lies’ in the LLAC. It was more of a contemporary ballet, and was a bit like hip-hop. It was a lot of fun and I hope we can go see more performances like this in future!
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Yesterday was interesting because I got to see what my classmates are like when given authority or when they are being bossed around. Ms Sandul asked each of us to pick between a red sticker, a blue sticker, and a yellow sticker. Because it is my favorite color, I chose blue. Then Ms gave us all a piece of paper according to the color we chose. For instance, if you pick Sandul ed yellow you got a yellow sheet, and if you picked blue you got a blue sheet. The red sheets were actually orange because we didn’t have any red paper! On the sheet was a list of rules and tasks. When Ms Sandul read out all three different sheets, it became obvious what they had done: We had to complete the tasks while yellow was lower-class, blue was middle-class, and red was upper-class. The rules for blue were you can ask yellows to do small jobs for you, you can’t work with the yellows or the reds, you can’t use your computer, and you have to sit where you are told. The reds spent all their time on their computers because they were the only ones who were allowed to, while all the other blues bossed the yellows around. I think it was quite interesting because you got to see how the freedom given to them really changed the way they behaved. Well, eventually the yellows went on strike, which was annoying because I was being nice to them. To make matters worse, the blues had to stay sitting down, so we had to scoot around on our chairs! I think it would have been interesting to do over break because you would have really seen the change in the social structure.
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