spring!

The sun came out today while I was walking from the parking lot to class, after a week of rain, and it felt HOT! Spring is finally here.
We did some cultural exercises that were pretty interesting in class today. With a sticker of a country (unknown to us) on our foreheads, we had to have conversations with classmates and guess our countries from their remarks. At first it seemed silly and rediculous, but by the end, we all seemed to see the value in the exercise from the perspective of cultural understanding.
The second one involved us writing down desciptions of our own heritage, then classmates read them and tried to guess the country we were describing. Again, a little awkward in the process, but ended up being kind of fun and intersting. Another valuable tool and idea to use for student's cultural awareness. I was thinking that I could possibly use a smaller version of this one, narrow it down to focus on the music from different countries/backgrounds as a way to study world music.