Describe your experience. Tell us about the highs and the lows.  What were your major take-aways? What did you learn? How did you like it?  

In this experience, I was the administrative assistant. This meant that I made sure that everyone wrote down their homework in their assignment notebook. I liked this job because it was fairly easy and it had skills that I feel that I’m good at. These skills include being responsible and efficient. I made $400 a week for doing this job. For my bills, I had to pay a total of $174.25 every week. I have done a good job I think of managing my money. I know this because I have a lot of money leftover. Don’t worry, I got paid and paid bills in fake money. Something that I would have changed is that I would have tried to get a new job (even though I liked my job) but just to try something new. Something that I learned is that you should try to pay the lower price at first(when you don’t have so much money), and then work your way up to the nicer products. This way you feel more accomplished because you work your way up to the top.

How did your character’s role/situation in the game affect your ability to take care of yourself? 

I feel that my character’s situation was very fortunate and I was able to take care of myself well without getting into debt, having loans, and I was very healthy. This is because I had enough money to pay my bills and to get healthy food so I wouldn’t get sick from eating unhealthy food. In addition, I had leftover money that I could save for any other additional expenses I didn’t know would come up.

What aspects of your character’s life encouraged success?  What aspects of your character’s life brought about failure?  

The aspects that encouraged success in my characters life was that my character was very responsible, efficient, and helpful. I also got a good pay. The aspects that brought failure into my characters life was that I feel that I could have maybe tried and applied to a new job and try something new even if I was successful at my current job.

What attempts did you make to improve your character’s life?  How successful were these attempts? How difficult were those attempts and why?

I feel that I didn’t try to make any attempts to make my life better because it seemed to be going well. In the future, if I were to do this again, I would have tried to apply for a new job and try something new even if I was successful at my current job.

Write a list of what you learned about poverty from this activity.  

• It is very hard to get out of the cycle of poverty, once in it(because you need to catch up on bills and then you get even more behind due to needing to pay more bills)
• Life isn’t fair/Life is hard(some people have more success than others)
• It is hard to balance your money especially when you don’t have a lot(because you need to pay bills, yet still have some leftovers in case anything happens that you need money for)
• Sometimes people will help you if you need it(people gave other people’s loans so they could pay their bills on time)