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| Erecting a tent as one of the stage challenges |
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The Amazing Race
A test of character, teamwork, endurance, and wit... well, I think that's how we had advertised it. "It" being the first ever "Amazing Race" here at Woodstock. Of course, after attempting to switch my brain back to those awkward high school years, I knew we needed something else to try to lure the kids in. It then hit me. what does almost every teenager want? .trophies, no. fame, maybe. food, definitely! So it was set, free food for the winners. All they needed to do was get a team together, complete a few easy challenges, run around the hillside, that's it. simple, right? Well, not exactly...
Word spread quickly to the Woodstock staff that we were in need of volunteers, and not just "volunteers", but volunteers with some creative, crazy ideas to make these students earn their free food. Some of the challenges included the logic-puzzler, tent-setter-upper-and-taker-downer, build-towers-with-toddler-toys'er, make-a-suit-out-of-newspaper'er, and the-tie-a-pencil-on-a-string-and-squat-it-into-a-bottle-after-making-yourself-dizzy'er. to say the least; I don't think the students knew what they were getting themselves into.
Competitiveness and teamwork soon took over and in the end all were sweaty and tired, proud and frustrated. and all of this with only one sprained ankle and a scraped elbow, not bad.