Saturday, May 2, 2015

ALSO Week Blog

On Thursday April 28th I got the opportunity to go participate in a poverty simulation at the Cameco head quarters. When we arrived at Cameco we were greeted by security and brought back to a conference room were United Way, the group who was in charge of setting up and running the simulation had set up this "town." In the room there were many different shops, families, and roles for us to play. Everyone in my group had many different roles in order to make the simulation run smoothly. Some of us were apart of different families, some people were shop owners, and others just ran different organizations. The simulation ran for about an hour with four fifteen minute weeks. After the simulation we talked for about an hour with everyone who participated in the simulation about what we thought about the simulation, then we left. This simulation was a big eye opener as to what life is like when you live in poverty. Later that afternoon we went back to RJC and met up with the other group we left on our journey to Camp Kinasao. KInasao was a great time to reflect on our week, and really just take some tie to relax after our busy week.

Abby