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Success and failure - would you react like the housemates?
There have been plenty of successes and failures in the Teen Big Brother House.
The most obvious success the gang faced was getting into the House in the first place. All the housemates seemed to feel a great sense of achievement at being picked. Despite initial nerves, everyone was upbeat and positive when first entering those hallowed doors.
And they all dealt with it well. There were shrieks of: "I can't believe it! Big Brother!" But despite their incredulity, all appeared happy and proud of their success.
The first real failure in the House involved the simulated flight task, when Caroline crashed the imaginary aeroplane nose first into the tarmac of Birmingham airport. How did she cope?
Caroline told Big Brother she felt "bad" about it, but was really more concerned with how the others felt. In a conversation with Tracey, she quizzed the Runcorn girl about what everyone else was saying.
Happy that no one seemed to blame her for a reduced shopping budget, Caroline put her failure behind her, and it was never mentioned within the group again. In fact, Caroline only let her true emotions out in the Diary Room, using it as a "confessional" rather than dumping guilt on her fellow housemates.
Was this a game plan on her part? Not at all. Caroline dealt with her failure extremely well. She knew failing the task had cost the housemates a decent budget, but she didn't dwell on it and soon put the whole incident behind her.
Being up for eviction can be seen as a sign of failure too. Hasan and Shaneen faced this early on, as they were both nominated to leave. Not exactly off to a flying start!
The pair both reacted very differently when they were nominated. Shaneen took it extremely personally, while Hasan seemed more philosophical about it, shrugging his shoulders and not letting it spoil his experience in the House.
Shaneen was very vocal about her nomination. She began to grate on the others' nerves by talking about it at length to her housemates and also being extremely negative.
It remains to be seen whether she will be the first housemate evicted, but her failure to cope with her nomination doesn't bode well.
As well as coping with the failure of the flight task, later in the week Caroline also had to deal with winning a task.
Beating her fellow incumbents to win a prize, the Ashford student did exactly the right thing - playing it cool.
When Big Brother announced she'd won, the blonde smiled happily, but left the jeering and whooping to the others, letting them celebrate her success rather than jumping up and down at her own triumph.
As part of her prize Caroline was to be exempt from the next set of nominations. As everyone wanted to stay in the House, and no one liked nominating, this part of the prize was probably the most important.
But Caroline mentioned it after bigging up the first part of the prize with a casual, "Oh, by the way," before looking around the gang with a "shucks" look on her face.
Caroline was by far and away the most capable housemate when it came to dealing with success and failure. She kept her cool, didn't let her emotions rule the House, used the Diary Room to "confess" and left her failures where they belonged - in the past.
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