7/15/13
MADALYMPICS!!
The weekend after independence day, all of the
“mahaylanders” got together for our first VAC meeting with me as the team
leader! We had a very good discussion about some of the issues facing
volunteers and new policies proposed by the new country director. Then we got on to the fun part J
In the theme of summer BBQs and fun having, I put together
an Olympic games themed party. There
were four teams, each with their own color theme (PURPLE RAIN!!!!! Actually my
team was supposed to be blue, but my friend Travis pulled his “zoky” (older
sibling in Malagasy) card. Plus purple
rain had a sweet theme song and we DOMINATED).
While it was difficult to get everyone moving in the right direction
(herding cats was the phrase that came to mind), we did get two members from
each team to participate in the highlight of the day, LIVE ACTION MARIO
KART! We rented little tricycles on the
streets of Antsirabe and raced them around the little boulevard. Sadly I was the only one in costume (LAME, I
was Toad J),
but one group did buy bananas to throw at other teams, which was pretty
hilarious.
Herding cats continued after that to get everyone to the
hotel, and it was starting to get dark so we didn’t really do a whole lot of
the other games. Purple Rain did some
decent domination in beer pong and flip cup (college revival whoo!) and then we
went to go get pizza and cheeseburger.
Yay America!
Overall I think it was successful, and everyone seemed to
have fun even though we didn’t do everything planned. Can’t wait to do it again in October!
-Sarah
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