Dear Tam,
Today at lessons we had to play a really hard game. There was a box of white rocks and a box of black rocks, and an empty box which was small. Master Vissen said we had to choose what rocks to put in the box, and then say why. Some people chose all white rocks, some people chose all black, (because they were prettiest) and some chose all small (more in the box) and some chose all big.
Then Master Vissen said that the ones that we had put in the box would 'live' and the rest would 'not', and that as Jedi, one day we may have to choose like that, and to consider our choices.
Luda (who is a tw'ilek and a real bantha-butt sometimes) said "Who cares, they are just a bunch of dumb old rocks anyway!" And Master Vissen shook his head, and waved his hand and raised a big jar of water and spilled it on them. All at once the 'rocks' opened up and grew little legs and started wriggling around, lapping up the water into little mouths! Luda (who is also a big 'fraidy!) squealed like a silly bird, but the rest of us just made 'ooh' noises. Master Vissen just smiled and nodded at us.
After a while, Master Vissen had us all (including 'fraidy Luda) pick them up and put them back into the fountain, and we watched them play around until Lesson time was done.
Love,
Pem