Aiming to be the tallest!

Are you the tallest? Do you want to be one?

You may never become the tallest in the world, but you can make the tallest tower! And, with speghetti!

This class, we were devided into small groups, each group having a bunch of speghetti and a marshmallow which was to be placed on the top of the tower. We've made towers out of newspapers, but speghetti, with its crispy and fragile texture, would be such a challenge...After we were told to start, Cathy, Ray and I immediately set down to our work. At first, we were running quite fast, as the base and part of the body completed. But when it came to the top, we were always thinking we could make the tower taller, so we kept adding more anbd more speghetti to it, letting the tower grow longer and longer. However, after a while, when Cathy tried to let go of the tower, we found that the tower couldn't stand on its own! Unwilling to sacrifice its "height", the only thing we did was strengthen the foundation, but no matter how hard we had tried, this naughty tower still resisted to stand still...

Finally time was up. Looking up at other goups, I found almost all the towers were different from the rest. Some towers were extremely artistic, like the one from Happy's group---

Some were quite "elastic", like Steve's "feeding machine"---(The marshmallow is already in his mouth!)
There are also some awesome ones, being both tall and stable. However, ours could only be called a "tower" with my hands holding it...

Such a tower-making activity seems simple, but actually we can derive many reflections from it. From the variation of the shape of towers, I saw how differently people think when faced with the same problem; from the failure of our group, I realized how important the foundation is; from the success of Helen's group, I had to admit that professional knowledge did help a lot because they had two engineering students. It also came to me that human mind is indeed creative---even speghetti can be used in such a way!

After this team-building activity, we had a chance to say "thank you" to HC classmates, as many as possible! In the five minutes' time, I wrote five thank-you notes to different people, which was better than last time, but I was still not satisfied. To my great delight, I received six in turn!!! Reading the notes my dear classmates sent to me was really a comfort. Most of the notes said "thank you" to me for organizing the BBQ, which may be the biggest reward for all what I did. Since I was too busy sending my thanks to my classmates, I didn't have time to write one to Pro. Udani, but I'm sure that everyone of us want to say THANK YOU aloud to him, who has made so many efforts to bring us together as a sweet family :) Thanks sooo0 much!

After several cuisines, our class ended with a perfect dessert. I mean, real dessert! Thanks to Echo, she baked another cake for us. Looked delicious, right? It tasted even more delicious!