Stories from a week ago

So there are a couple things I want to share from my AmeriTraining week that I forgot.

They're fun.

Each day we played some kind of team building game, which were fun and just helped us get to know each other. At night, when we were essentially free, we would read, break up into smaller groups and talk, play card games, whatever. One night, I think our last night, we decided to play some group games. Two very ridiculous group games. I'm going to start with the second, because the first is even more amazing.

The Paper Bag Game

It starts with everyone in a circle around a paper bag. The object is to pick up the paperbag with your mouth while standing on one foot. No hands - they cannot touch your body (ie can't hold your leg up) and they can't touch the bag.

Once everyone in the circle has done it, the last person cuts 1-2 inches off the top, and everyone goes around in the circle and picks up the same thing, and again the last person cuts 1-2 inches off the top.

Eventually you end up discovering some amazingly flexible people. To get your head down to an inch to two inches off the ground while on one foot and your hands in the air - And then come back up with a bag in your mouth? Holy Crap.

It was ridiculous and silly and great. The first game is even worse.

Who Can Eat the Most Chocolate?

Jill, one of the second year AmeriCorps-ers, brought out this huge chocolate bar - not a king size, but seriously family size (one of the giant Symphony bars you see in the baking aisle) and put it on a cafeteria tray and we all sat in a circle. The object was to eat as much chocolate as you could with a knife and fork and cutting the bar in pieces smaller than those little rectangles already marked in.

All while wearing a kitchen rubber glove, aviator sunglasses, and a paper crown.

And each person had a time limit. There were two pennies being passed around the circle, each person flipping them. If you got two heads, it was your turn to get the chocolate. You would grab the tray with the chocolate, the knife and fork, the hat, the sunglasses, the glove, suit yourself up and go at it. After getting all this stuff on, you had to eat as much chocolate as you could. But most likely before you even started cutting away someone else probably flipped two heads and your chocolate was being swiped away.

It was ridiculous. It took me so long to get 2 heads that when I did, I was just cutting my piece when someone started to grab the tray from me so I grabbed the big chunk I was cutting and shoved it in my mouth.

And we didn't actually pay attention to who ate the most chocolate.