[sl] Third of Mariel's Voices of Youth, Global Kids Related Post
We had posted a week ago Mariel's second blog post about the UNICEF Voices of Youth program. Now she has posted a third one to summarize the various activities that took place leading up to the Award Ceremony on Friday, December 22, 2006.
In the World Fit for Children Festival on TSL, we’ve had a few events going on…
Workshop
First of all, the workshops. At least one participant in each team (though the workshop was open to anyone who wanted to join it) had to be present in one of them. I attended one as well, and I had a lot of fun. For two hours, we had interactive activities related to the objective to the contest. In one we had to make our own pictures to represent one of the four issues, and the others would have to guess it when we saw it. Also, there was a scavenger hunt with prizes.
Daily events
Everyday, we all gather on Global Kids’ Island on TSL for the daily event. In it, people who won the scavenger hunt (the ones who found most eggs and answered the questions correctly) were given their awards. Also, the most popular building of the day is announced. TSL residents can vote for each building in the vote boxes.
Monday panel on Voices of Youth
After the daily event on Monday, I had the honour to be in a sort of panel to tell TSL residents a bit about our beloved Voices of Youth ^^ I just answered a couple of questions and told them about what we do on here and how it’s changed our lives, hehe.
Party with Henry Jenkins from MIT o.O
Well – to me, this one is unbelievable still. For an assignment/project at school, I quoted a couple of his works, which gave me an idea on how to put it all together. His works are my main source there. I found that out until I was shown one of his works, and then told he’d be on TSL to talk to us. I’m still amazed, hehe. The party rocked, Alpha Zaius was great as a DJ, and Henry Jenkins answered some of our questions ^^ (I still feel ashamed, though – poor Barry, who was hosting the event, must have been secretly wishing for me to stop asking so many questions. How obnoxious can I get? Sorry!)
Well – even if it doesn’t sound like so much, this week’s been very hectic and exciting. We are less than 24 hours away from the deadline, and I can’t wait to see the results…
In my next post, I will tell you a bit about other people’s opinions, the projects themselves and the final events and results. Thanks to all the teams who have posted - I'm looking forward to reading more about your projects!
Greetings from Mexico!
Mariel –Voyunicef-
