Campaigning
Campaiging goes on for a couple of weeks. Every day at lunch time the students come in and do a little campaign speech for a few classes. They take turns so that everyone in the school has heard every speech. The candidates always take a friend with him/her. The friend also gives a little testamonial about his/her friend. This is all very serious. They wear banners across their chest and stand at the entrance of the school in the morning saying "vote for me" for a few days before elections. There are posters on the walls. I asked some of the students who they were going to vote for or who they thought would win and got some blank looks. Little did I know that everyone who ran for office got elected! surprise, surprise.