We had a group of about 40 BYU Advertising students from the Communication Dept. come this morning. They’re on a 7 week study abroad program going through Europe. We met with them at about 11:00. Dinis explained who we are and what we do. We divided them into 2 groups and gave them a 1 hour tour of the building, then we had pizza brought in for lunch.
After that the WSR folks organized a humanitarian project–decorating canvas bags with fabric pens that were then filled with hygiene items for new mothers–shampoo, lotion, soap, a burp cloth and some baby wipes.
Then some more Q&A with Ralf and an interesting game he did with them where 3 or 4 were taken out of the room and the rest spread out in the cafeteria. The instruction was that no one could speak at all. Each had to randomly pick 2 people in the group and then situate themselves in an equilateral triangle to those 2 people. Then the 3 or 4 were brought in and he said GO, and the others moved into position. Everyone was in motion for some time until finally everyone settled into a triangle with their 2 people and stopped. The 3 or 4 had to guess what made people move and why. They couldn’t figure it out.
Ralf finally explained what we were doing, then he said it’s like the communication world–everything you say and do affects someone else and it’s a constant movement of saying the right thing to the right people–the message is different for everyone, so there is constant change. It was an interesting analogy.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 