Sidewalk Chalk

Last Wednesday, all of the kids in second hour e9 were numbered from 1-14 and put into a group that went with their designated number. You know what that means? If you said "There is a very likely chance that you won't be with people you know/ you won't be with your friends/ That you would be shoved into a group full of people that seem foreign to you.", then you are correct. I was placed in group 2, aka a group filled with decently laid back and quiet dudes. I mean, I didn't mind. But I also wasn't appealed to the idea. When I say they were quiet; I mean, they were quiet. I was as well, but that's because no one spoke until the day we had to put our design on concrete. Which, by the way, was hectic. Before we had to transfer our ideas into the "real world", we got 30 minutes to finalize our thoughts and symbols and neaten everything up. It was fond of the teachers to do so, but instead of finalizing our big symbol mashup, my group took this time to actually talk about what the heck was about to go down. We used these blissful 30 minutes to create the ultimate mashup of a snake, a lion, a sun and moon yin yang, and a shield. Once our half hour was up, we rolled on down to the courtyard and found a nice slab of concrete that was shaded from the sun by a part of our school. Although we had our design planned out, we didn't start immediately; Minor complications were in the way. Minor things as in "Where are we gonna put the snake?" and "Should we color the shield? If so, then what color?" Really figuring everything out and getting situated took us 7-10 minutes of work time. But once we started agreeing and working together, we were on fire! Everyone was doing what they were assigned to do, and in no time we finished our masterpiece. Er, I'm using the term "finished" lightly. Due to some miscommunication, one of the members started to color in the shield even though we agreed not to. We did have the time to complete it, but we quickly ran out of the chalk we were using. I went on a hunt to find that specific color once more, but no one seemed to bear such a color. Though this misfortunate event happened, we trooped on and acted as if it was meant to be like that. My reasoning was that it was a representation of life. I quote, "It shows how, even when you have a shield, you are in your most vulnerable form." Anyways, that's all for now!