Get Your Game On Week

Last week was Get Your Game On themed, a week dedicated to sports and other high-energy activities. Some highlights were the Drum Fit exercise routine, and our visit to see the Waterloo Warriors.

For Drum Fit, we had an instructor come in and talk us through some exercises involving exercise balls and drum sticks. Since we did this last year, I'm pretty sure I blogged about it then as well. The reason it is called Drum Fit is that most of the exercises involve using the exercise ball as a percussion instrument. I really like this form of fitness, because the way the instructor talks you through it, you don't realize that you are doing some pretty intense work until near the end when you're finding it hard to stand. I wasn't quite as beat-up by the end of it this year than I was last.

The Waterloo Warriors are the University of Waterloo's sports team. Their football players took us on a tour of the training and fitness areas of the campus. They then had us do a number of drills, and we ended by participating in a game of football with them.

The Waterloo Warriors were a new trip concept for this year, and so it was pleasing to see that it went over well. The Humane Society trip for Vibrant Volunteers was also new, which I forgot to mention last update..

It was a really smooth week. Other activities that came along well were our Mission Impossible game, where participants attempted to sneak behind barriers and retrieve balls for their team, our Tarp Toss game, where people threw balls through targets positioned on giant mats, and Minute to Win It, which had teams filing through stations and attempting to complete tasks in the span of a minute.

This past weekend I got to catch up with someone from Katimavik. This guy wasn't in my group, but he was in a group doing the same rotations as us, in the same span of six months. So when I was in Summerside, he was in Thunder Bay, and when I was in Thunder Bay, he was in Chisasibi, and when I was in Chisasibi, he was in Summerside. We lived in all the same houses, and only met briefly but learned about each other's groups from the stories we left our Project Leaders and placement agencies with,. It was great swapping stories with him and putting together the pieces of such an old puzzle.