After breakfast we went to our first Peace Education session, this mornings topic was "What does peace mean to you?" We did a lot of fun activities. One of them was we saw a slide show of different pictures of different circumstances and we had to try and figure out what Peace meant to the people or animals in the picture. The first few were rhinoceros chasing a man and a lion standing outside a man's tent. The first ones were just for fun, but after a while there was more serious ones, like what was peace for two little children standing beside soldiers with guns. We thought peace for them was no more war and maybe some food. And we also made collage about what we thought peace was out of pictures or words from magazines. And we also had to draw and write on a separate piece of paper we thought peace was.Some people's pictures were very nice and had deep meanings.
After the Peace Education was over, we went to have lunch. We had a short break after lunch and then meet outside our cabins for a afternoon game called Orienteering. The point of the game is to find little flag post things with with hole punches beside them. Each team of two got a score card, a map, and a compass. We got about three hours to walk around the campsite and try and find the flag posts. My partner was from Korea but she had lived in China or 3 years so she could speak Chinese, so we used Chinese to communicate. When we had found all of them, we ran as fast as we could to the classroom that we were using to see if we had gotten all of the hole punches right, but we had gotten 3 mixed up. So we quickly went back out to correct them. When we finally got back our legs were all covered in little cuts because of the grass in the bushes that we had to climb through to get to the flag posts. After the three hours were up, we found out that we had successfully found all the flag posts, we were very happy.
After everyone had gotten back from the Orienteering, we went back to our cabins to have a good shower, but the cuts on my legs stung a lot. After my shower, since I was still very tired from the late nights, I had a very short nap while we were waiting for supper.
When supper was over, we had our evening activity which was playing the drums. There were 4 different types of drums, there were the wooden plates, a car hubcap (or at least I think that is what it was), an empty soy sauce jug, and an empty jug. I was one of the people playing the water jug. We learned a few simple beats, and it was a lot of fun. I found out that I am better at drums than I thought I was. When that was finished, it was almost 10:30, but we still had to have a country reflection time, which is where we had to split into our country groups and talk about what we learned that day. Then finally at 11 we got to go to bed. It was a fun day. My favourite activity was the the drums, and the Orienteering was fun too.
