Amerilympics!

I walked back to my house as the sun was setting, covered in mustard, pudding, and BBQ sauce. I walked in the door to greet my housemates, all of whom were graffitied with similar and various other condiments. I contemplated what just happened, what we just did, and how the day had begun on much different note, on a much dryer note.

This morning started like any other morning during a transition. We got up early to get ready, clean our house, make breakfast, and head over to B15 (Building 15, the main offices and conference rooms.) We had a few meetings here and there, in addition to a roundtable on our last project in our clean black and white formals. We all had a few errands to run, and some specialty role tasks we needed to complete. Nothing too out of the ordinary.

4PM rolled around. Let the games BEGIN. Today marked the first annual Amerilympics! It was a campus-wide competition among all three units: the Badgers, the Wolves, and the Ravens, in addition to Team Green (the TLs and staff). The games were held mainly in the South Field of the village. We all had respective colored T-shirts for each unit, and we played everything from Everyone’s It Tag, Tug of War, Kickball, to Ultimate Frisbee, Tape Tag, Capture the Flag, and the final Relay. The games were a blast. If you didn’t play, you rooted your team on, and much of the day was tournament style games.

Some events were a bit more out of the ordinary than others. One included finding puzzle pieces in kids’ pool filled with pudding and other unknown substances, which ultimately turned into a wrestling match for many of the Corps members, especially among our Badger 1 friends. Another game of Capture the Flag essentially encompassed the entire village, which made things tiring and nearly impossible to find the “flags”. It was fun nonetheless. A game of Human Battleship commenced, which entailed water guns and the use of condiments to mix things up a bit. For many it was funny, to others it wasn’t. For everyone, it was messy. The games ended with a relay at the end which included running charades, 5-person legged race, a slip and slide, and a pushing of a 15-passenger van over the finish line.

So the results? Not so much in our favor. The Badgers came in fourth out of four, but I think it’s fair to say we had the most fun out of all of the team, and were by far the messiest. So what if we didn’t make it on the board? We had our pudding-filled kiddie-pool that provided endless amounts of laughs even in between events.

The 4-hour event came to a close, the award ceremony commenced, and the Wolves were given their Golden Goose Award. I hear that the main organizer of the events received an e-mail from the Denver NCC Campus about an interest in starting the games there. I hope, for their sake, they have sufficient laundry facilities.