Surviving

As soon as our class got the assignment to try to "survive" with no grownups after our plane crashed, we all got really excited.  We had no grown ups to tell us what to do and no rules that we had to follow.  We all started talking about what we should do and how we should function.  We split unintentionally into thirds.  One third was a monarchy, one third was a democracy, and one third was a "kingdom" with four rulers.  Everyone was talking at once.  It was hard to know what was really going on.  Nobody had complete control over everybody else, and no official disision were made.  Also, we never thought about what we needed.  We fist started thinking about what type of government we would have, then we started thinking about rulers, and then we started thinking about fantasy football.  None of us ever even thought about food or water or shelter.  We never thought about what we would need to survive.  At the moment, that was ok, but in the long run, that could become a problem and cause us to have trouble surviving.  We really needed to think more about the essentials to survival rather than football and take care of those first, and then we could worry about entertainment.



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