This week in my Foreign Policy Decision Making class, we are doing a simulation game. We are in teams as different major countries. My team is North Korea, but we are playing against countries such as Iraq, Iran, the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, Pakistan, France, Turkey, etc…For research, we have been reading newspaper articles from our countries, translated by the CIA and put onto a database called World News Connection to which Ohio State subscribes. This has been an eye-opener to see what other countries think….especially what North Korea thinks of us (it’s not good). We are going to the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, part of OSU campus, for the “game�, which will last four days. We will be given the scenario of the world today, with some adjustments and advancements, and we must decide what our country would do. I’m excited for this, and I love that we actually get to apply what we’ve learned to something, but I have no idea what to expect. It should definitely make for an interesting blog next week.