Scavenger Hunt

Well, I think ya'll know I won't be outdone ;) - remarkably enough, I took like ZERO photos on the scavenger hunt yesterday. Perhaps I'll go back later and take pictures. What I do have pictures of are the group standing around after the hunt and having a good time, so several of those are grouped at the bottom in no particular order. HINT: These would make good facebook pictures for some of ya'll, very candid!

So I don't recall if the others said what the point of the scavenger hunt was, so I'll enumerate briefly. The School is about international collaboration and learning about cultures, so the people setting up the conference are trying to give us every opportunity to work and talk together, to build a team. At the end of the conference we will have one group project that will require us to work together, in less than 24 hours to solve a complex problem.

The scavenger hunt was fun, we worked together as a team, but we felt it was unfair, because they mistakenly put five Americans on a six person team at an international school. After we revealed this at the end, they agreed that it wasn't very fair, so we'll probably re-do groups before the weekend. Three of us had already walked the trail, and we all had a really good idea what to do to finish quickly.

Starting off though, we figured that we were beat already, that the other teams had had someone skip dinner, that others surely were ahead of us, etc. And then this team finished first. That was nice, but because of the way the other teams had done their planning, it was late before some of them returned, so we were very worried about them being out. Luckily there was a full-moon, and by 11ish they had returned, so all was well.