Yesterday, April 22nd, we started on our "Triton 16% Plan" projects. We created our own accounts on a Smithsonian website to earn badges from doing quests. What we do will be seen by a group of experts who will judge our work and give us recognition.
Today, April 23rd, we did a few activities to see what life in a sod-house would be like. We smelled sod, planned out how people would sleep and eat in a sod house, and tried to stay still as long as possible to see what old-fashioned pictures would be like. Near the end of class, we turned off the lights (there are no windows in the classroom) and put a campfire image on the projector to simulate what being in a sod house would be like. These activities were a fun way to imagine what life would have been like. Living in a soddie would be difficult. There would be little light and little space. The smell could affect you, or you might get used to it. There would also be a lot of hard work to do for farming. I probably wouldn't last too long. I like to read most of the time, which I would need to go outside to do and only if the weather was nice. Being outside in the open and seeing the various animals would be fun for a time, but there is only so far you can go in a day, and only so much to see. We might have been able to make up games, but those would eventually get tiring, as would the view. I probably would have stayed in the city, depending on how well my family was doing economically. If we were really struggling and needed the cheap land, then I might have gone, though.
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