Wooden Ball

On thursday afternoon, Steph, Pete, Qentin and I took the wooden ball into Schine student center. We entered at different times to disguise the fact that we knew each other, then, starting with pete. We kicked the ball around and attempted to inerest others in the game.

As soon as Pete put the ball on the ground, people started to look at him strangely. There were two guys standing in the corner. Two girls sitting on a bench. And one girl walking around. Pete started by kicking it to the guys standing and talking. They attempted to ignore him and let the ball rest at their feet. Awkwardly, Pete walked over and scooped the ball back with his feet and kicked it to Steph who kicked it to the girl walking by. She was also unresponsive. But the more we failed, and the more commotion we made, the more we drew people's attention. The two girls sitting down, who were also the farthest from the action, became very interested. When I finally kicked the ball over to them they recieved it well, and kicked it back to me. Using them as a jumping off point, we slowly got 3 or 4 other people to join in. Even the two guys talking who had completely ignored us, eventually kicked it around with us. Unfortunately they seemed more bothered than amused. I think our location was a difficult one because it was not a place where people normally had a reason to sit around and wait. Most people were just passing through. And the people who were just sitting around were reading or talking and wanted to keep it that way.