Torture

Today in class we made a pyramid in pairs. I worked with Rosemary.  It was called "Pyramid Challenge." At first I thought it would be easy, but trust me, it's not.  Basically, you have to go through all the steps in the game, and if you mess something up you have to start everything over.  EVERYTHING!  You needed to have the perfect workforce, a quarter of craftsmen to farmers and no slaves because there was none in Egypt (why was that a choice?), the right things to give your workers, etc.  And in the middle of the game, there was this stupid boat thing you had to do, which we failed every time.  I didn't realize that you could just hit "finish game" and it would go right to the harbor.  (Mr. Schick told us after we failed it 5 times). The whole game was torture! I hated every minute of it.  I am never doing this again.

The grading was worse.  Mr. Schick said that the first two people that make it get an A, the next two get a B, the next people get a C, and whoever doesn't finish it in class gets a 0. Thankfully, we finished, but we got a C.  I was about to cry.  It was so stressful and I hated it.  Probably the worst day I've ever experienced in Western Civ.