Breakfast, RA meeting and Activity planning

Breakfast went smoothly - bad churros, and coffee. I found a banana and mixed it up with some yogurt for my own breakfast. They forgot to give the kids cereal bowls, but put out cereal, which I found to be very entertaining. It was off to the RA meeting afterwards where we learned what we are doing. I asked to do Salsa dancing taught by a fellow RA in the hopes of learning some basic steps.

I decided that I would try to plan an activity along the lines of a team based academic decathlon next week.

The ten events I am thinking at the moment would be:

1. Rubik's Cube. Team based, one member who doesn´t solve them, is blindfolded and the rest of the team (hyopefully containing a member who can solve them) directs them how to move it without touching it. There might a speed round as well. Points to the first team or two that solves the cube.

2. Trivia Round - History, Sports, etc.

3. Math Problems. A series of questions in increasing difficulty.

4. Riddles

5. Mensa warm up test. see mensa.org for an example.

6. Name that Painting / sculpture (verbal description for 5 art works, show them painting for 5 art works using projector)

7. What´s bigger, smaller, rounder, flatter, true, false

8. Music ID: play pieces, identify song for one point, composer/artist for another point

9. Translation

10. Zen Counting

Of course, I welcome suggestions. Any of these I would be up for replacing, adding to, or modifying.

Can´t wait to see everyone´s thoughts.