Today was definately not as early of a day as Yesterday. We all accidentally slept in 40 minutes, but I think God knew we all needed to sleep in. Not a whole lot of activity today, we had another simulation where we split into 2 teams: the Alpha’s and the Beta’s. The purpose of the simulation was cross-cultural examination. We each played separate games and each team had to guess how to play the opposite team’s game worked. My team (the Beta’s) played a game called BAFA BAFA, it was a lot of fun. Hopefully I’ll remember how to play! For breakfast, we had a simulation about bartering in India. It was very interesting, hard, but fun. Some guy stole my apple.
After that we had more lectures, then we returned to get ready for the commencement service that night. But first another simulation took place (yes I know, there were a lot of simulations). It was dinner time and we were all split into 3 uneven groups. The first group was called “First Class” the second group “Middle Class” and the last group “Lower Class”. I was in Lower Class. First class people ate at a table with nice silverware, plenty of food, servers and all sorts of luxuries. Middle class sat in folding chairs with paper/plastic utensils to eat cooked rice and beans, they also had clean water. Lower Class sat on the ground with no utensils except for dixie cups, we had leftover rice and beans but even that was taken from us sometimes. We had to ask the other classes to give us food, but they weren’t always allowed to give it to us. So that was our dinner: rice and kidney beans. But it was okay, we got to eat ice cream later that night for a birthday party, so it was good. We had the commencement service and finally got to see our parents after what felt like 3 weeks already. God relieved all of our hearts from the culture shock and revived our spirits and our bodies to leave for Germany tomorrow simply from seeing our families. It was a much-needed day.
