"she's going to change the world"
Tonight, Meredith hosted a Global Simulation Workshop from o.s. Earth, and it was quite possibly one of the most amazing experiences I have ever encountered. As a group of about 40 students and a few faculty members, we were divided into categories of Organizations, Corporations, and Regions-the powerful forces who have control of the world. Each person or team of people was given certain wealth and responsibilities, the goal of Corporations and Organizations was to provide services and 'solutions', while the goal of each Region was to move up the ladder of development by gaining these services and regions, each categorie used their wealth to conduct trade and facilitate progression. I was on the Education Organization team, my partner and I were working to provide educational solutions to each region, while also managing the fiscal side of such an operation. As an organization, we could only buy more solution cards with money, yet we could sell solutions for both money and Regional resources to gain wealth; it was an interesting balance between trying to provide a fair deal to each region depending on their status, yet also maintaining some level of competetive wealth. The major obstacle we faced as a world was the crisis phase, in which we were all responsible for donating enough money, resources, and solutions to prevent a disaster. We missed the donation mark by two points, yet our group was the first in the history of the Simulations to have donations from every single sector. One girl commented, "Welcome to Meredith" which is truly indicative of this school, on the whole we are a generous and benevolent group of women who are committed to the act of giving, in whatever form possible. Meredith's goal of creating responsible world citizens is something I am incredibly grateful for, I just wish that more people could adopt this attitude, as it is so important for our lives in the future. My new mantra has become: Get involved, make a difference.

I'm exhausted, but in a good way. Its different than feeling tired and being in a bad mood, I'm still extremely tired, but I've accomplished so much in the past few days. My project got finished, thankfully, and I got a 95 on it! The bad news is that Carol moved up the deadline on our wheel project so that it is due next Tuesday instead of after Thanksgiving break which means this weekend I not only have to write my 7 page research paper, do my 30 page style journal, but I also have to throw two pieces on the wheel. I'm very tempted to just not turn it in. I have an A in that class and at this point I don't care. I may try and persuade my History of Costume professor to give me an extension on my journal though, that would help a lot. We went to the NCMA this afternoon in Ceramics after our critique and got to look at two really amazing exhibits, one of North Carolina pottery and the other was called Cross Currents and was an exhibit featuring artists from all over the state who worked in various media. They had some really incredibly pieces in both shows, one woman had built this huge serpentine wall out of salt blocks that had been eroded by ocean waves-it was really cool. This day seems like it started forever ago, I can' t wait for next week, Tuesday night I'm going to just crash and probably not move until Rachel picks me up on Wednesday to go to Wilmington. CAN'T WAIT.

~Rachel