howie’s halfpipe

Tonight Bevis and I went off to a inter-school social justice forum. We had to run a workshop on poverty and responding to it. Pretty much pitch TEAR a bit and try and give these young people a glimpse of what life can be like in different situations.

There was about 250 young people at the forum and they all got to pick 2 workshops they wanted to do. I think there was about 7 or 8 organisations running workshops. and they all ran twice.

Our first group was really good, it was all girls and 2 boys. They got into the little simulation that bevis ran and asked questions and took info, they listned whil i rattled off a bunch of resources and things they could be part of.

Then we broke for dinner.

workshop 2 however went to the dogs, it was a nightmare. no one listened. the boys spent the whole time flirting with the girls. They didnt take the simulation serioulsy at all. they spoke and even shouted over steve and no one listened to me. which in it self isnt bad cause young people enjoy a bit of fun. the anoying part was that they chose to be at this event but had no desire to interact or even listen to the material presented. and to make matters worse the member of staff that we had in the room just sat up the back totally silent. she sat there smiling.

time for sleeping have to be up early for a staff meeting in glebe