Day 7: I’m Dead!

Day seven marked the beginning of my project with Tete. We educated the students on leadership and and had them make a video about what they think leadership is. We put a very tight time limit on them to make them prioritize and when the time came for the first part to be completed, none of them were prepared. It worked perfectly, because we wanted to make them realize that in life, deadlines are not always flexible and in the real world, when a task is due for your job, university, or other responsibilities, it needs to be turned in on time in order for others to complete their work.
During the afternoon we played a game called Kill. It is kind of like dodgeball, and it’s really fun. I was surprised to see that one of my team members, Zuska (the really quiet one who is so nice!), was out on the field—all alone, dodging every single ball that was thrown at her. She amazed me! Who would’ve thought this little girl could be so quick and agile! Eventually she got hit, but the game wasn’t over! The team captains finish the game with 3 lives and our team captain, Frank, brought us back from Loserville to win the game! It was a great game.
After the games, we had the students get together with the facis for a session on what it is like to choose a university, how we figured out our universities, and what it’s like to adapt to university life and everything. We answered all the questions. I was kind of boring because I knew what I wanted to do, where I wanted to go, and everything before I went to college, but typically, many people change majors or cannot decide where to go to get their degree. I focused mostly on taking advantage of every opportunity that comes your way. I had the chance to go to Europe before starting college—so I did. I had the opportunity to learn Chinese—so I did. I had the chance to go to China, Japan and Hong Kong—so I did. I had the chance to come to Prague—so I did. Life doesn’t serve things to you on a silver platter, but life will certainly let you choose from the buffet.
After the workshop and dinner, the facis prepared a special night event called Clue. In this game, we acted out a Clue plot, where I was the one who was mysteriously poisoned the day before my wedding. Was it Tete, my fiancée, who found out I was having an affair? Was it Lessya, my secret lover and fiancee’s best friend—who just couldn’t stand the fact that I was getting married to someone other than her? Or was it my father Martin, who was upset I wasn’t taking on the family business? Maybe it was his 3rd wife (my stepmother), Ekta, who was angry that I was receiving the inheritance money instead of her? Or it could have been my soon to be mother-in-law Aysegul, Tete’s mother, who invited us to her house that night and served the drinks to us? It could have been Tete’s brother, Harrison, who owes my family lots of money because of his addiction to our “black market” products! The students really had a blast. All of us facis acted out scenes around the camp and the students moved from one scene to the next trying to put the pieces together. Our acting must’ve been pretty terrible because none of them got it was Ekta who killed me to get the inheritance money. Oh well, maybe next camp!
After the Clue game, we attempted to watch a movie again. We had played a movie the previous night, but without subtitles, the students got lost and disinterested, so this time, we chose one with subtitles. My movie selection on my computer isn’t that great, and actually most of my movies are downloaded from the internet, so they don’t have subtitles. I did have one movie, that I purchased in China, with subtitles on my computer. We decided to watch that movie, which was kind of uninteresting to the students, but at least we had a few stay until the end. I guess next camp we know what not to do!