Start of term examination.
Answer the following questions. Take all the time you need. You may start writing/talking/thinking now.
1. Imagine you have just been born, not as a baby but with all the sensory and mental faculties and knowledge/experience/wisdom/foolishness you have now. Human lives last for exactly ten years and then people die. What will you do with your life?
2. You receive a letter that includes a cheque for the amount of 200,000 pounds (sterling). Great Aunt Regina, of whose existence you have hitherto been unaware, gave instructions in her will that the cheque should be sent to you after her death. However, she also instructed that there were only two ways in which you could use the money. These are:
a) buying a holiday home in Britsville on the Costa Blanca near Alicante in Spain
b) donating the money to a well-building project in Meribara, a small village near Kadugli in Sudan, where villagers (average life span 45 years) presently suffer from a host of waterborne diseases, many of which could be combated with the construction of the wells.
You may also tear the cheque up.
3. Write your obituary (no more than 150 words). It should NOT read like a CV.
4. The partner of your cousin, with whom you have had no contact for nearly ten years, arrives on your doorstep. She is in a desperate state because of her relationship with your cousin, who has a worsening problem of heroin addiction. She is calling for your help because the other members of his and her families have either turned their backs or do not want to get involved. Do you help? If so, how and to what extent?
5. What do you really need?
Answer the following questions. Take all the time you need. You may start writing/talking/thinking now.
1. Imagine you have just been born, not as a baby but with all the sensory and mental faculties and knowledge/experience/wisdom/foolishness you have now. Human lives last for exactly ten years and then people die. What will you do with your life?
2. You receive a letter that includes a cheque for the amount of 200,000 pounds (sterling). Great Aunt Regina, of whose existence you have hitherto been unaware, gave instructions in her will that the cheque should be sent to you after her death. However, she also instructed that there were only two ways in which you could use the money. These are:
a) buying a holiday home in Britsville on the Costa Blanca near Alicante in Spain
b) donating the money to a well-building project in Meribara, a small village near Kadugli in Sudan, where villagers (average life span 45 years) presently suffer from a host of waterborne diseases, many of which could be combated with the construction of the wells.
You may also tear the cheque up.
3. Write your obituary (no more than 150 words). It should NOT read like a CV.
4. The partner of your cousin, with whom you have had no contact for nearly ten years, arrives on your doorstep. She is in a desperate state because of her relationship with your cousin, who has a worsening problem of heroin addiction. She is calling for your help because the other members of his and her families have either turned their backs or do not want to get involved. Do you help? If so, how and to what extent?
5. What do you really need?
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Hi
Thanks for your comment over on my blog. Much appreciated. My answers to your questions:
1. If I knew I had exactly ten years, and I didn't need to worry about such things as reproducing and providing for my offspring, I would try to fill it with as many different types of experience as I could. I would also want that after I died there were people who felt that the world was a better place for my being in it. It wouldn't have to be many, just a few.
2. Option B beyond any doubt. The Spanish Costa's are my idea of hell on earth.
3. I have always wanted my obituary to read "He did everything he set out to do."
4. I would try to help them both to whatever extent was possible.
5. Food and warmth. Everything else is a bonus.
Thanks for your answers
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