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June 17, 2008
How my kids spend their free time:
We played a game in high school history class, junior year, called "The World Game."* Did anyone else play this? We broke into teams and created countries. We earned points by creating different pieces of information for our countries, such as: climate details, history, government, constitution, national flag/anthem, educational system, etc. You can make treaties with other countries; natural disasters happen. In the end ...in the end you don't have to go to war, but my understanding is that our teacher never had a class that didn't. Jeff and I were in the same class. His group contained the two class overachievers. Mine did not. My country had a flag, an anthem, a complete history, and a fully-described educational system. His country had a constitution, and a fully-described military. My country fared badly in the world war.
Connor has spent this evening making a country for the world game. He's drawn up the basic geographical map and climate overview. He's chosen to give everything Arabic names, and has looked them all up to make sure he has the meanings he wants. Now, I think he's off designing the military vehicles.
Aidan, on the other hand, spent his evening making an Alien nest out of clay, complete with colonists in different states of being ... used ... by the Aliens.
*Yep, that was junior year history at my school. American history.
Posted by lynx at June 17, 2008 10:52 PM
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My junior year, I was in AP US History, ***BUT*** I was in Model U.N. That was a blast. My team represented Trinidad and Tobago at the Security Council. All I can remember is that we finished 2nd, but we did our resolution passed by the Security Council to charge the French with war crimes for their atrocities against our people.
Posted by: geek at June 18, 2008 12:32 AM
You cannot argue that Aidan lacks creativity or imagination.
Posted by: Jeff Medcalf at June 18, 2008 7:53 AM
Have you seen this:
http://www.nationstates.net/
Very fun!
Posted by: Amy loves Bud at June 18, 2008 1:26 PM
I've seen the nationstates site, many moons ago. At the time (don't know if it's changed), it was very obviously weighted so that you could only do well by picking a European socialist model, and everything else resulted in bad outcomes. I lost interest very quickly. Good idea; poor attempt at simulation.
Posted by: Jeff Medcalf at June 19, 2008 7:59 PM
Okay I am just impressed Lynx that you remembered that. I don't remember that game at all. We had the same teacher that year....I guess you were probably in the Honors Am Hist class, and I wasn't. You and Jeff both know what I remember about that teacher. LMAO!
Posted by: Jewels at June 25, 2008 12:55 PM