Egg man

What happens when you drop an egg on the floor?

                             

In our last PPD session miss Sarasi  took three eggs and A4 sheets with her. We all wondered why? Does she plan to have an omelette? No, she divided us in to 3 groups and gave each an egg ,a sellotape and 5 sheet of papers. What we had to do was make any kind of a thing using those which will protect the egg shell when it drop from a very high place about 10 feets.

At first I thought "oh no we can't achieve this.How can we protect an egg shell from these things?".

So then I turned to my friends. Discussing and listening to others ideas are essential when we come across team works. We gathered and talked to make a plan.Our main point was to make something which can absorb the pressure that makes when it touches the floor.So we made a cylinder and put the egg inside and placed it in the middle.Then we put some papers on the top and bottom of the cylinder and covered it with sellotape.

After that we thought of a way to protect the sides of the egg.Then we realized we can only protect the egg shell if we avoid the contact of the egg shell and ground with a high pressure. So we made rods using papers and placed them around the egg so that can avoid the contact of egg shell with ground.Finally we made our humpty dumpty by decorating the egg.

                                             

We went outside and found a place to drop eggs.Teddy is the tallest student in our class and miss Sarasi asked him to drop each egg. It was really a heart breaking incident to see when eggs hit the ground.Then we unwrapped the eggs.The egg of our group didn't had any crack while eggs of the other two groups cracked.

What we learnt from this were we should think and plan before doing something. Good communication between team members also an important thing. Understanding the issues and the targets correctly also play important roles. Here, first we should find the reason why an egg get cracked when it touches the ground. Then we have to find the solution. We should think differently and beyond the box.

We passed a lava river. So hot and melting. Can you imagine such kind of a thing? But guys Some friends felt on to the lava. It was so sad to see.

Are you crying guys? No no it was just a game, just a challenge. Hikz. We did not cross a real lava river.It was an imaginary one.  Have you heard about the games lava river? Stand on the paper?

We were grouped in to 3 groups and given a sheet of paper which was little bit larger than a bristle board. What we had to do was to step on the paper with the miss Sarasi's command and stand on it until she says out. We cannot step out of the paper, if any one stepped out all the group was removed. So while keeping our own feet on the paper we had to help others and make space to keep their feet and to keep their balance. There were few rounds and in each round paper was teared in to smaller size than before. When the paper get smaller it was really hard to step on it by our own without taking the help of the other team members. 

Then we had another task. That was to cross an imaginary lava river using 4 sheets of card boards or tiles. We cannot touch lava or cannot loose any human touch with  tiles. If  any tile loosed human touch that tile was taken away. The group which passes all the team members with the minimum time was considered as the winners.

You may think that what an easy task. But guys believe me it is not that easy if we do not have team spirit , good planning, trust on others. Every team used their own plans and strategies. They were different from team to team.

At first we were asked to overseas one by one. But all the teams lost their cards. Then we were asked to cross the river with all the team members. And there were 50 and 20 marks signed places on the floor. If we crossed through that places that marks were added to the group.

We learnt many more things with this activity. Victory is not something that comes just with a small a try and a wish. We have to work hard on it. We should have a way or a strategy to go for it. Sometimes we cannot achieve our task by our own. We need help of the others. We have to keep trust on others. And time management also an important thing. Is it worth if we cannot achieve something on time? Think in a different way. Learn from failures.Failures are the ladders to the success. Do not fear for challenges. Face those bravely. Keep your target in your mind. Do not hesitate to take help from others when we want it. Think about others. Give them your hand. Communicate with right people at right time. When we walk to the victory we get extra benefits if we change the path that we were walking. For an example the 50 and 20 marks. At such kind of situations we must think bravely and choose the correct path.

So think about these things and add those to your life. Life is long journey to go. We cannot predict what kind of challenges will appear in front of our face. So as the young generation we have to do our best to improve our selves.