woensdag 9 juni 2010

Monday 12 April 2010: Arrival Day at beBEC

Today would be a long day. Some of us had to do an exam and we still had to figure out what (or who?) our mascot.would be. For the mascot we just went to the local pet store and bought ourselves a little gold fish. The fish was given the name Xavier and put in a bottle. The exams were filled in and we were ready to go. It took us five hours and a pit stop at home to arrive at our destination, a large villa on a hillside of Durbuy. Xavier didn't look very happy after the rough, twisting ride through the mountains of Durbuy. For the remaining of the week he would rest traumatised on the bottom of his bottle. But here we were, in a large villa, filled with Flemish and Wallonian people. Name tags and T-shirts were handed out while somebody asked a question we had never thought about: “what would Xavier eat this week?” We would have to find some fish food quickly or our mascot would not be able to survive this great adventure.

We had just installed ourselves in our room, when we were called to gather outside for some “get-to-know” games. After having met everyone and trying to remember their names, we gathered in the conference room for the explanation of the main team design. This team design would be spread over the whole week. The goal was to build sort of a fire truck, which could suck water from a bowl, drive to the other side of the table and eventually put out four candles. The truck had to be remotely controlled by a hydraulic system made from syringes and tubes. We got an hour just to brainstorm a little bit; tomorrow we would get the materials and do some real work.

Finally there was some food, unfortunately it was German inspired: Frankfurters with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut. Luckily the food got better every day. :-)

Now it was time for some fun activity: A room rally. The idea: mix all teams in groups of four, tie them together and make them go from room to room to play some games.


Photo 1: Arriving and unpacking our stuff


Photo 2: Our fishy mascot Xavier


Photo 3: Our team at the first party, with our angel.

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