The values workshop that we had last Tuesday afternoon was an eyeopener to say the least.

The room of twenty-odd people was split into four groups. Each group was given a large envelope with contents inside. Opening up the envelope my group found a pencil, blue tac, three paperclips and a rubber band. We were told to create something that we could give to new Education students to help them with their adjustment into university. My group decided to make a map of campus.

We used the large envelope as the map and we used the blue tac and paperclips to point out the most important buildings for Education students; Dalhousie building, Library, and the Union. We used the pencil to draw the map and the rubber band to indicate where a roundabout was. My group thoroughly enjoyed the task, we had a lot of fun in the making the map and we were quite chuffed with our end project.

When it got to each group showing off their project, we watched every group present something much better than what we created. However, the difference being was that every other group was given more materials to use than we were. Not only that, they were awarded higher points than my group were. We understood the higher marks as each of their projects were exceptionally more elaborate than ours but we didn’t understand why we weren’t as lucky as the other groups. Why didn’t we have as many materials and why were we discriminated considering we done our upmost best with what we had?

The moral of the project was to show you that not everyone will have the same opportunities as we do. Some families have next to nothing to live off of and other families have too much to live off of.

My group had fun (probably the most fun out of all the groups) because we knew that we had done our best and we didn’t know that we were missing out on more and better materials. Unfortunately, not noticing what you don’t have is a very unlikely case. In schools children will watch their classmates get everything they wanted for Christmas and Birthdays while they get very little compared. This also goes for homework projects, you can’t discriminate because you have no idea what any child is facing at home and what he/she has to offer.