Today we watched the fifth kid nation. The episode started with one of the yellpw team members trying to geet the other members to wake up and work and then it is revealed that the blues are having the same problem.. Later the council reads the town book and tells everyone that they are having re-elctions for the council. some of the children who are running is Zack who is part of the yellow team the green team however is happy with there leader. Later a meeting is called and most of the council leaders want to be re-elected. One member of the red team named Gaylan is running, another in the blue.I see this as a social network because because all of these groups are working together.
Later Zach makes his speach and wants to impeach the yellow leader. After this chalenge time begins and as a group they have to bust open pinyatas which have pictures of past presidents then put the presidents in order. Green finished first but was wrong and after them yellow won and after this green got 2nd as laborers and after them red got cooks in 3rd and finally blue got 4th as laborers. Many people are definately angry that yellow won as they have the worst leader. I saw a lot of conflict in this contest more than any of the others because all the children were fighting and arguing with fellow teams to know which presidents go in order to defeat the other teams.
When it was time to choose a prize the children had to choose between a barbecue or toothbrushes and tooth paste and choose the tooth paste and the tooth brushes.When election day finally came all the children who were running for the council came under great stress and tried to convince as many people as they could to vote for them by setting up posters and making speeches but also by talking to people individualy. Lots of fights broke out over people protesting and tearing down posters. This caused even more stress on the kids. I definately see this as an in group, out group sort of situation because all the children are teaming up in different groups and are targeting each other to in this case get them on there side.
When before the elections began Greg, who has been frustrating about htis threw the whole show, finally won the gold star. When elections started the winners were Laurel from green who was re-elcted, Anjay who was re-elected, Gaylan for the red, and finally Zack for yellow. All the children who were elected amde there speeches and it actually seemed like the children who lost the vote were ok with it at least a bit. After one more speech the children go back to there bunks. Greg later on calls his mom who freaks out over him winning his gold star.
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