Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Candy Stock Market

I remember meeting Mr. Kapptie outside of his classroom wondering what I was about to go through. At first I figured it would be some sort of activity that was about the stock market, but after listening to Mr. Kapptie talk about how hot it was inside and saw that the lights were off I started to second guess myself. When he first opened the door I noticed there was candy laying every where. At first I started grabbing handfuls of candy not knowing what I was really doing, but then the money laying on the floor caught my eye and instead of grabbing candy I resorted to grabbing all of the money I could find. After the chaos of cleaning the floor was over I looked around and realized I had a lot less candy than most people, but I also realized that I had a lot more money than everybody else in the room. At first when Mr. Kapptie started writing values on the board for different things I didn't really know what to do. After waiting for about five or six minutes of not buying or selling anything I decided to move all my candy to the middle of the room where people might see it. Right after moving my stuff to a new table Mr. Kapptie told me that sweet tarts were overrated, so I immediately started selling my sweet tarts. I had never learned anything about the stock market (aside from what I learned in class) before playing this game, and so I figured that to do we'll I would have to start buying more stuff. I started buying all the stuff that was lower money on the bored like tootsie pops, twizzlers, Heath bars, and laffy taffy. I had stored up a decent number of each item so at the end they really helped me. At the beginning of the game I grabbed four packs of nerds and couldn't sell them which worked out to my advantage because they split at the very end. After all of this chaos we were told to calculate our total value. I practically spent all my money by the end of the game which turned out to be a good thing I think I finished with a total around 5,000 something dollars.

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