After a lovely relaxing weekend, it was back to work at LTI-Brazil-land. We started off with a recap of ASA, this time with two calls going at the same time; it was actually pretty interesting seeing how people responded to this extra challenge - especially since a couple of people hadn't gotten the rules quite down yet. Next, the 20 students broke up into 3 groups that would later lead an energizer and activity that none of the students had experienced yet - mentors helped students plan and organize their activities so that the curriculum would stay within the time frame alloted to them. Meanwhile, Tina and I set up for the Maze Activity by winding white yarn around trees and lampposts in the lower courtyard - quite the death trap when you think about it, but at least the students were blindfolded before entering the maze. As there was no actual beginning and end of the maze, the only way to exit was to raise your hand and ask for help - which all of the students came to understand. A very long discussion afterwards brought out some useful conclusions before breaking off for snacks.
After our snack break, Tina gave a thorough presentation on how to Make the Experience - including some very interesting pictures of Disneyland v. KiddieLand and other ways to make LTI look like a legitimate organization. Next, Dave separated the students into groups of guys and girls for the Masculine v. Feminine activity where students arrange adjectives into a "masculine" and "feminine" category to highlight the stereotypes that society places on gender roles. This very swiftly led into a discussion regarding the validity of such stereotypes, and a very heated debate and interesting conclusions made by some students that, let's just say, weren't quite politically correct.
Even though today was full of many discussions with very heavy topics, nothing was to compare with the elections process for the future directors of LTI-Brasil. The mentors from MIT decided to structure the exec board into 2 Managing Directors and 4 Committee Directors who would be ultimately responsible for all of the things that LTI-Brasil was going to accomplish. Congratulations to Arnobio and Paulo (the 2 Managing Directors), Ricardo (Programming Director), and Mateus (Public Relations Director) - we'll definitely be keeping in touch with you, don't you worry.
That's all for now!
Love from Brasil =]
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