2015 05 26

This morning at school, we played the game predator for the first block which was 80 minutes. The four classes that was in our second floor grade 7 pod all joined the game, even the teachers. The teachers were disasters, Fire, Hunter, Flood, Rabies and something else that I could not remember. For Fire, Rabies and the something else, took away one life if they touched you. For Hunter, you lost 1 life if you were seen by it. For flood, if it saw you from a higher location to where you were, you lost 1 life. The students were divided into Hawks, Snakes and Rabbits. Hawks were the strongest, they could kill anyone, but they only had 2 lives. Snakes could only kill rabbits, and they had 5 lives. Rabbits had 10 lives, but could kill no one. We were given a bag of beans according to what we were. The number of beans represented your lives. If you killed someone, they had to give you one of their beans and they got 30 seconds to run away. For hawks, we wore yellow wrist bands. For snakes, they wore blue, green for black wrist bands. Rabbits had no wrist bands. There were a large amount of rabbits, about 50 students were snakes, and only 7 people were hawks. I was among one of the hawks. The purpose of the game was to let us understand how it was like to live in the world of predators and prays.

I spent about half of the class running. For most of the time that I ran, I was hunting down my prays. The other times were trying to get away from the disasters. I hunted down 19 people, caught by the disasters twice but was healed once. I got the most kills in the whole game other than the teachers. I had to protect my friends from the other hawks or snakes, while trying to hunt down other prays. The biggest number of people I had to protect was 8. It was not easy. That game was fun, it was one of the best pod games we had ever done in the year. We would do that again next week.

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