Lauren Reap, May 13

Lauren Reap, May 13

Shortly after arriving at Chongqing Technology and Business University, the International students and teachers and many CTBU student volunteers participated in an afternoon of games, music and fun. The CTBU staff spent most of the morning setting up for the event. When the international students arrived on the field, we were greeted by our gracious Chinese hosts with smiles and dancing. We were then split up into four teams; Birds, Mario, Plants and Tetris. The Widener students, along with other students from Canada, France, Botswana and Thailand were divided amongst the teams, so each team was filled with diversity and special talents.

There were five different contests that each team competed in. They were Tetris, Angry Birds, Tug-of-War, Plants vs. Zombies and Super Mario. Tetris began with ten team members transferring a marble into another container using chopsticks. Once that was completed, the team members would run to a rectangular outline where they would proceed to build a Tetris board using cardboard cut outs. It was timed and each team received points for having the fastest time. Angry Birds is similar to dodge ball. Two teams competed against each other. One team stood inside the circle while the other stood outside. The team on the outside would try to hit the people in the middle with a soft ball. If you were hit with the ball you were out. The team who knocked out all the opposing teams players in the fastest time won. Tug-of-War was just as you all know it, and by far the most competitive event of the day. Plants vs. Zombies was an interesting game that we learned. A team lines up and runs toward three doors placed a few yards away. You have to open the door, if there is a zombie behind the door you have to run as fast as you can back to your line without getting tagged by the zombie. If there is sunshine, you take the sun and run back to your line. The team with the most sunshine wins. Super Mario was an obstacle course race between two teams at a time. First the team members had to jump in a sack approximately twenty feet. Then spin around a pole three times and run and jump onto big pads. Finally, you had to jump two hurdles and go under one. The team with the fastest time to get all of their members through won.

The sporting event was an amazing afternoon, and gave all the students a chance to spend more time together in a fun and friendly environment. Prizes were also given out for outstanding participation by everyone. Even some of the teachers took part in the different games. Everyone was a winner in the end!