We woke up at 7 this morning, doing the ‘Hasse dance’, had our first morning quiz, presentation, and our first lesson of 7 habbits. Later, we had our breakfast then head to the Houston farm, we’ve saw lots of chickens running around (because some of us were chasing after them…). We also get to see other animals such as pigs, cattles (longhorns) and horses (for the cowboys!)
We spend our lunch there. After that, we had a lesson on a cowboy history where we learnt how the cowboys take their cattles on a long drive for 3 to 5 months. It was a difficult task. We as a group had to play the roles of a trial leader (Pohan), a cook (Penny), a swamper (Andy), a scout (Ms. Frankie), a scribe (Me!), cowboys and cattles for the rest of the group. We learnt that a head per each cattle cost 9 dollars, 200 dollars for all theh supplies including a bag of brown sugar, a bag of salt, 3 riffles, 2 bags of ammo, a bag of lard, a bag of tabacco, a bag of coffee, a bag of potato, and cooking utensils.
We also learnt that there were all kinds of difficulties along the way, for example, dead deer in the water, poision water by the land owner; trade with land owner for crossing the land in a short time. (We trade with a rifle and a bag of ammo.) Last but not least, we faced were the red river. The cowboys were afraid of swimming therefore they need to get some help - the horses who are natural swimmer. We’ve lost 50 cattles due to lacking of concertration of the cowboys. And finally, we lost 10 more cattles due to the great fire, the smoke which caused a stampede. It was hard for a cowboy to make profit because the trail boss also hd to pay 15 dollars per each ccowboy, the scout, the swamper, and the scribe. He himself got 60 dollars per month. As for the cook, she got 100 dollars per month. We had 3000 cattle for start, we lost 60 in total, but we did make some profit!
After dinner, we went to see the NBA which was a madness!! It was crazy! (though we hardly knew the rules of the game!) The place was chaotic! I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s program which was a lesson from the broadway. Apparently we’re going to learn a piece from High School Musical. I hope that my teammates would give me supports, I would like to give them help as long as they need me! I would like to give out more ideas for my teammates. In conclusion, I would like to thanks my parents for this wonderful opportunity, and also I want to say thanks to all the teachers from Hasse, thank you for giving us this amazing, unique program.
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