FUN FUN FUN

Hello! It's already week 6 and I found this class refreshes me a lot from a very exhausting week of assignments and classes. This time, I will fully share about our class activity this week. We usually have our class on Mondays, but this week we also had a make-up class on Thursday, and I think this week is one of the most exciting week from the whole 6 week of classes. Especially also because projects always done in team of 5-6 people.

So last week, we were assigned to list 50 dishes which is made from 2 ingredient that we randomly given, and we have to decide one dish for starter, one dish for main course, and one dish for dessert for our menu. This Monday we have done our menu with side dishes and drinks, and submitted! It's kind of funny because the ingredients that we have are durian and soy sauce, which is actually very strange to make a dish with. Here is our completed main menu;

                  

                     A rather simple cover for our book

Our starter dish

                  

                        Our main course dish

Our dessert dish (I made this one!)

So beside submitting this menus, we were also told to bring a marshmallow per group (one of my team member brought the whole package), and our teacher gave us a small bunch of glue tack and 15 long spaghetti sticks. From those ingredients, we were challenged to.. build a tower using spaghetti sticks as tall as possible with a marshmallow attached on top of it.

          

           

So we made the tower, and it was really unstable. We found troubles all over and fixed them, and found another problems, and fixed them again, and somehow it goes on and on, until finally it stands by its own.

Our survived tower (yeay!)

But well, life is not that easy. After all of the group's tower done, we were challenged to the most unwanted and disastrous thing for our group. It is to take out the marshmallow with only a person's one shot bite, with hands on the back. I was like screaming in my heart and my group was holding their breath. The purpose is to test how well it was made and how strong it was. Well, our group knows the answer for our own tower.

My team member, Ben, pulling the marshmallow

Yeah it broke. But we have so much fun and we laugh all the way through. It was really fun.

So we move on Thursday, new day, new groups too. We were told to submit our mock up product of various themes, and our group choose "future defense mechanism". So we meet up before class outside school, and we made a sort of futuristic gun with drink package, can, water bottle, branch, anything that we can found there. We haven't plan the gun's details, but it is going well as we found new materials on the process and we were quite satisfied with the final result.

With the same group, after a brief presentation of the product, we were faced another challenge, which is another fun waits. So we were given a story plot, which is told that we were trapped in a spooky island. Before dark, we have 1 hour to dress ourselves as similar as the monsters in the island, who eats humans, which have 3 fingers, half of the body covered by black mud, have a very long hair,  doesn't have any eyes in the face, and have egg trays attached in their part of body. We brought the materials per group, which is things like trash bags, cellophane papers, egg trays, large papers, masking tapes, and many other things.

So we choose a model from our group to dressed up with. We start from covering her with the black trash bag and begin to make the extra long hair. After that, we cover her eyes with a hat and begin to make eyes behind her head. Attaching here and there, finally we added additional things like wings or so called horns on her.

And after done, I take pictures of what other groups doing with their models, which I found all are very interesting and unique.

So after every group done with their models, it's time for a very brief presentation of what they are wearing. I would say that every team's monster were all different even though has a same instruction, which is look very interesting when all completed.

Our teacher, Ms.Tan, with the monsters.

The 5 team's unique models!

While seeing and experiencing so much fun in this class, I also learn many things. I learn how to corporate with my team members, how to gather idea with them, how to express thoughts, how to work and completing things with them. I also learn how different perspective of other teams are actually exciting to combine. This way, I learn how to accept differences and I learn how to actually working together with people that we don't used to work with. No matter the result was, bad or good, I feel that the more important thing is how to solve problems with others and how we make and feel things into a fun way to learn. I found these mini challenges and projects develops me into a better person in environment and also to encourage me to be a more creative person, seeing how unique and creative my friends are. I would love to have more fun with them while learning more about them.