Scenarios: Katarina

Scenario 1: The Shitty Kids Project

Katarina spent several hours last night preparing for the tour she is going to lead later today. She knows kids that age will have a hard time concentrating when with their classmates at a place filled with new stuff to explore. Therefore preparation is vital for Katarina’s success.

When the time for the tour has come the kids are, just like she anticipated, all over the place. Hyperactive little buggers, they run around screaming and not paying any attention. If she had something more physical to show them, something that felt real and cool, maybe they would be interested. She knows that they could be, it’s a museum about war. But instead she drags them from room to room, the teacher meandering along at the back of the group staring at his Iphone. Finally, she is done. The kids go away and she drinks half a pot of coffee.

Scenario 2: The walking silent dead

It’s an evening group, and those consist of random people. This makes her job harder, since she’s not able to prepare a specialized tour. Instead she must try to figure out as she goes what the group finds interesting. The problem is that no one in the group is asking any questions, or answering hers. It’s difficult to tell if they’re uninterested or just quiet. When they stop at the room of trophy room, there is finally some life in one of the ladies, as she knows for sure what county has a symbol of two crossed arrows. After this things go a bit smoother, but it is still much more quiet than Katarina prefers. Having gone through her regular tour at least ten minutes faster than usual it is done. One or two of the visitors linger, asking a few questions they could very well have asked during the actual tour. She goes home to an empty apartment and a frozen pizza, still not knowing if the people were bored, or just quiet.