Day Three

1/25/11
1:08am

Today was the first full school day at SEGL. While most people woke up at 7:30 or around then, my roommate Olivia and I woke up at 8:10, and we leave for the Metro at 8:15. We got dressed and met everyone downstairs who was waiting in the foyer. We headed out and walked about five-seven minutes to the Metro at Union Station. Walk for Life was today so when we arrived at the Metro, it was extremely crowded and the train was delayed 10 minutes. When we got on it was insane with people everywhere. So I decided to make it fun and Metro surf! We walked about five minutes to the academic and went into the big room in the front for Ethics and Leadership. We did a skittles activity where we each began with a certain number of skittles (in my case, I started out with 0, others with 4 or 5) and we had to run around the house in order to find skittles. The point is that we were doing a simulation in which we are the only survivors of a nuclear holocaust and each skittle represents a resource. It seems pretty easy, but along the way you will get cards from Noah. For example, I got the “now you are allergic to orange skittles,” so I couldn’t eat those. Or some people would have cards that said if you are blind, eat five skittles and you can see again. We did this simulation for about an hour. There were some particularly interesting parts including when Tony “broke his leg” and couldn’t move from the stairs, so Andy carried him all the way down the stairs into the big room. Yet even though he had a “broken leg” he still crawled around using only his arms to find more skittles, which surprisingly, he did. When the simulation was over, we discussed out strategies and how well they worked out with Noah, then learned about Aristotle, Kant, and Mills. After that, I had my first class, Precalc, with TJ, Andy, Quinn, and Yiwa. It was quite an interesting class and we got a lot of homework for the first night which most of us were rusty on. Then we had lunch of this Indian food that I have no idea the name of, but it was really good. Then I had two free periods in a row where I worked on math for the first one, and then just hung out with everyone during the second free. Then I had US History with Gray, and it was really cool to see where everyone is in his or her classes at home and things like that. We did a mini-evaluation quiz to see how much we remember and know about US history. After that I had Latin with Mr. James Warren. It was the most intimidating thing of my life, but he’s a really cool teacher who knows a ton about Latin. Plus, he’s British. That went until about five pm, and then we left for the Metro ride back home. We went back home, helped unpack foods from the car, including Nutella!!!!, and then we got our clothes for the gym. We went to the Washington Sport Clubs gym for a little while with Andy, TJ, Tony, Jon, Marcy, Erica, Sara, and me. We stayed there until about 7:15, came home, and had pasta, meatballs, and garlic bread for dinner, which was delicious. We got out our homework, and began our first night of homework at SEGL. It was hard to get things done at first but it all worked out okay! Then we had hot brownies and went upstairs for check-in. It was an eventful day, and so much fun. I’m so glad I’m here.