Biotile

Before packing up for Shad, each and every single one of us received a package of notes from Shad Queens. On the back of this package, in a clearly identified black outlined box, a pre-program challenge is given - Biotile.

Basically, according to the instruction, a biotile is to serve the function of describing an individual Shad within an 20 x 20 cm square tile. This assignment was successfully completed by almost all Shads as expected before arriving to the camp, except ... (cough cough)

On the second day of the arrival, we were instructed to bring our biotiles down to the Chernoff Hall (normal lecture hall). It is time to present each piece of our masterful creation.

Looking around, pieces of tiles were laid neatly along the side of the lecture hall. Being a lazy viewer from the seats, looking down, quite frankly, they all look no different than one another, but then of course, with exceptions. We see a sun there, a soccer ball, and oh, wow, a flower.

Before we took our eyes off of the awesome tiles, the staff spoke and recommended that we were to take a random tile, and introduce ANOTHER shad instead of ourselves. Now this idea, is epic. We started to hear: "So...umm...there's a picture of bleg(censored) with his friend, so...yea, wow, he has friends, that's nice...", or things like "This tile seems to be of a background color of green, so I guess bleg(censored) likes the color green." but only to receive a momentary silence and a squeaky reply of "Nal".

Conclusion - we found out that some people have friends, some people maybe lying about not liking the color green, or, maybe, the biotiles kinda helped us to break the ice and got us to know more about each us and offered a great conversation piece.

Haakim meticulously studying the biotile in a very shadly manner.

Micheal: That's your twin bro right?
Justin: Err...that's kinda my buddy there...