Peace and Planes at the Eisner Museum
Hi Everyone,
I have some great news, we have just added four new students to the CESAR program. This brings are numbers to 7. Since we do not yet have a central meeting location many of the activities have occurred in my apartment. It is going to get a little crowded soon but I hope enjoyable for everyone none the less :)
The new kids will start in February and I have some pretty exciting activities planned which all of you will hear about on this blog so please keeping coming back.
Adding ideas for peace
Last week we went to the Eisner Museum in downtown Milwaukee. The Eisner is an advertising museum that had an exhibit on peace. We talked about how one act of kindness can turn anyone's day, week or life around and how peace can impact not just the people you know. We talked about two famous peace leaders, Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi. As you might expect they knew more about Martin Luther King Jr because he was was in the US but they enjoyed hearing about Gandhi as well.
Flight simulation to help ease the nerves of first time flyers
There was also another reason why we went to the museum. Since we will be flying to Mexico in June and none of the CESAR students have ever been on a plane before, we pretended that we were taking a trip on an airline exhibit :) I made everyone strap in and I was the lovely flight attendant who makes the hand gestures while the captain is talking before flight. We went through takeoff and landing procedures, what can happen while we are in flight, such at turbulence and ears popping and how it feels to land. The overall experience for them was good. They had lots of questions about how the plane stays up (one I couldn't answer right away), did planes have bathrooms since it was a short flight to Mexico City? (I assured them that the larger ones which we would be on did have bathrooms), did it feel funny to walk on a plane (Said it felt like ground to me). Well, I am sure you understand where this is all leading. Overall I am happy that we had our preflight simulation.
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