A week before Halloween my friends and I decided to do something fun and different then we normally do on a Saturday night. Yeah, you guessed it, we had a Toga Party. And yes, you guessed it again, wearing a toga was a must. The main purpose of this party was not actually having a party, it was more like a game. My friends and I split up into 4 groups of 4 people and we had a list of things we had to do, some were on the stupid side, but most of them were an act of kindness that most of us wouldn't do on a normal basis. For example, one of the tasks was to help an old lady cross the street. We had to video tape us doing the task for "points" that would be added up at the end of the game. Oh, did I mention we were wearing togas this whole time? It was strange, especially for the guys. We kept getting weird stares/looks from random people about the guys wearing the togas. To me it was just funny, but I thought it tied into what Sal was talking about in class today. When he showed us a piece of clothing that a guy had to wear for an Egyptian Wedding, just got me thinking about the guys that were wearing the togas and how "out of the norm" it is for that to happen around here. Another task we had to do was to help someone out with bags or a large object that they were carrying. This, I considered a positive deviance. Even though it was something to cure our boredom I felt good about myself after going out of my way just to help someone which i normally wouldn't do, obviously.
P.S. My Team won ;)
your "dare night" relates so much to what were learning in sociology! it sounds like a really fun way to use our sociological mindfulness outside the class
ReplyDeleteThat actually sounds so cool. I usually thought of dare nights to be 100% embaressing things but doing your events as "acts of kindness" seems so cool!
ReplyDeletewow.. that is so funny!
ReplyDeletemy friends and i are definitely not that creative to think of a game like that. i like how you had to bring yourself out of social norms to win the game, who won?
my team won, obviously. haha and yes it was so much fun!!
ReplyDeleteWow, Sal couldn't have picked a more perfect time to talk about social deviance... thats awesome!
ReplyDeleteReally funny. What a great way to have fun and stay sober. You guys are funny.
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