Reflections and a lame game i just made up (blog post 24, Annie Deitz) (*winner of my game gets a dollar* woo play)

This blog post is unnecessarily lengthy and not super exciting, I spend half of the time droning on about myself and the other half making up this strange and irrelevant game. 10/10 would not read. I'm so so so sorry it's so long. I would appreciate it if you played the game though, I would love to see what you all come up with.

If anyone does want to just skip to my game, go to the purple part. It's not a game in the sense that... you can just see for yourself if you want.

When I originally read the assignment title, I was terrified that you'd make us write about our goals for the future. But you only partially did, so thanks for that. I'm probably not going to do that. We'll see how this goes.

Junior year has been okay. That was a lie. It was worse than freshman year. It was worse than sixth grade when I had absolutely no friends and ran a ten minute mile and just played monopoly ALONE for most of the time. But I also don't want to talk about why it wasn't super awesome, because that's boring. Most people have sucky junior years. That's just the nature of the American public education system, and I'm fine with that.

Now that I've spent eleven sentences discussing things I wished not to discuss, I'll discuss things I do want to discuss, slightly out of order nonetheless.

Mistakes Made? Hells to the yeah. Do I regret making them? Hells to the yeah. Have I learned from them? Other than the seemingly useless "maybe you should not do that again?" Not in particular. Maybe I have yet to discover that I've learned anything, but rather than teaching me, my mistakes decided to lodge themselves into my stomach as rocks of guilt, anxiety, and sadness. fUN :)


Risks Taken: very few. The ones I have taken have ultimately either led to the mistakes discussed briefly earlier or completely led nowhere.

OKAY I PROMISED YOU A GAME. This year, I feel like I've learned a lot more about biases and seeing the world through different lenses. We all acknowledge that we have biases and different points of view, but we never think enough about how this affects our interactions with other people on a deep enough level. Or at least I rarely did prior too my "lesson learned," or more fully developed over the course of the year. I'm expecting 0 people besides myself to play this game, especially considering this is the absolute worst time of year timewise, but I would be really interested in seeing what you all have to say.
Basically, I'm going to assign you a few different traits, based on your birthday and shirt color and such. From there, you have to write your views on a specific topic BASED ONLY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS I GIVE YOU. YOU CANNOT BE SATIRICAL, YOU CANNOT PORTRAY WRITE IN A WAY THAT CAN BE SEEN AS OFFENSIVE, YOU CANNOT ALLOW YOUR OWN BIASES TO CLOUD YOUR WRITING. As I wrote the second point I realize that this could end poorly. Please please please do not write in a way that can be seen as offensive to a group of people you are representing.
Leave them in the comments. I guess the best one will win a dollar. I cannot emphasize how little I want to start a political altercation, so please leave all of your instinctual biases and political stigmas in the pockets of your not-writing pants, and put your positive attitude and PC diction in your writing-pants.
Topic: let's see... Medicare.... okay yeah Medicaid.

Choose Your Ethnicity Via Your Birthday Month (as opposed to equally dividing you all into majority AND minority ethnic groups, there will be a few with multiple months)
-White- January, May, August, October, November
-Black- July, September, December
-Hispanic- February, March, November
-Asian- April, June

Choose your Gender Via Your Eye Color
-Male- Blue
-Female- Brown
-Other- Green

Choose your Religion Via Your Hair Color (I acknowledge that there are more than four, you all just have little variance in hair color)
-Christianity- dark brown
-Islam- black
-Judaism- blonde
-Atheist- light brown

Choose Your Socioeconomic Class Via Your Favorite Subject
Upper- social studies
Upper Middle- math
Middle- art
Lower Middle- English
Lower- science

Choose the Region of the US in which you live Via your Favorite Season
Northeast- Winter
South- Spring
Midwest- Summer
West- Fall

Choose Your Age Via the color shirt you're currently wearing
12-18 Red/Pink
19-29 Blue/ Purple
30-40 Green/ Yellow
41-60 Black/ Grey
61-100 Any others

Choose Your Political Ideology Via The Middle Letter of your Middle Name
A-F- extremely conservative
G-M- moderately conservative
N-S- moderately liberal
T-Z-extremely liberal

I think that's it, I'll do an example in the comments. I'd really appreciate it if you all played. You would just need to write a few sentences. It would be a lot of fun. Not really. But do not forget that this was not intended to start fights about political ideologies, I solely wanted to experiment in the idea of biases and points of view.

If you have stuck around this long, thanks I am impressed. I hope the rest of your week is absolutely fabulous.