Diplomacy and more...

So we happened to try the game. Interesting...
It ended up perhaps worse, than some had anticipated, yet much better than I had (the moment when there were two people at the time we should have started).
It made me think. Not about the game itself. Rather about organizing things. I already know in some innate way that the more organized usually mean overall worse. Unfortunately, in the real life, I often don't follow this fact. This was the case. Vosta came up with the idea, I liked it. Fine, and I was really eager to try it. So I started convincing a lot of other people (as we needed at least seven players). And I didn't realize, or maybe I didn't want to see, they are not really interested in this kind of amusement. Ala wrote it to me straightly: she has bad memories of board games from her early childhood :-)
That's not to say it's impossible to play such a game. But one must tell people who really want to. Who don't need being convinced. I sometimes organize e.g. some sleepovers or teashop visits and that sort of actions. But it's not really organizing. I just let the people carry out their own wishes. They'd like to participate. They just aren't used to setting it up - like saying where, when and so... But it's not like organizing something. It's just about setting the "frame" and letting the people "let out" their wishes - to talk, to play something, to go in the nature, whatever, it just depends what you do with who. People in most groups have these wants, just somewhere they lack the people who set the frames (I see this in some other classes in our school).
But this action, the game, it was really about organizing. I was trying to force the people (maybe except for Vosta, Meldath, maybe Maf) to playing something they didn't really want to play (and in fact I knew it, I was just too keen to try it). After all most of them enjoyed it at least a bit, but it was not good...
Around midnight most people got just too bored, so we ended. Lan and David M. had already left. So there were two groups - Maf, Meldath and Vosta were moaning about how the others terribly ended their nice game. Bzochi, Ann, Kriza and Laupi started to gossip about men's bad nature. After a while, the three came and started to play Talisman. I joined the four. Laupi fell asleep after a while and we got in kind of weird mood. We were talking really strangely. The others say it was mostly me, but I'd say Kriza and Bzochi wasn't much better. Ann was just staring at us, sometimes laughing about the pure madness of the words said. We went to sleep slightly before 4.00.