SECRET FRIEND
As a task during our week in Finland, we were given the name of a person who was part of the exchange group. This was all done in secret and so the name of the person you got was known as your 'secret friend'. You had to keep your secret friend completely to yourself. Your secret friend was someone from either side, for example, an Irish person got a Finnish secret friend and vice versa. For this person you had to do nice gestures and give them compliments. I asked, in secret, what everyone has done for their secret friend so far and record it here!
People who took part in this task did lots of different things in secret. A popular example was to take time and make friendship bracelets, which was a very nice idea, but the task became harder as you couldn't just hand the bracelet to your secret friend as then your secret friend would no longer be a secret and you couldn't give it to a friend to give to your secret friend as then they would then know who your secret friend was. So, one person started the idea of sticking a friendship bracelet and a nice letter to their secret friend's dorm door or somewhere where their secret friend would see it. Once people heard of this idea others started to do the same.
I interviewed a few others and they told me that they had wanted to do something that nobody had done yet. When I asked what they had ended up doing they named things that other people had in fact already done! This included giving their secret friend a small gift which was put in an envelope made out of an A4 sheet of paper and left it outside their secret friend's door. Another person gave their secret friend a bar of chocolate which could have been perceived as just being nice.
Other examples of the things that people did were:
Sending their secret friend a postcard
Saying nice things to their secret friend
Spending extra time with their secret friends
Giving compliments to their secret friend
Leaving poems for their secret friend
I think the secret friend task was a very good thing to have going on as we built secret friendships and didn't even know it.
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