The Scavenger Hunt
By Rtr. Pevindra Rathnayake
July 22nd of 2018 is a day that I will never forget as I
woke up to the sound of my alarm and for the first time in a really long time I
did not hit snooze. The reason behind this sudden change was the scavenger hunt
organized by the Rotaract club of CCS that was scheduled for later that day. I
was excited to take part in it as it was my first ever scavenger hunt and my
first big event after I joined the club.
All the participants, made exclusively of first years/new
members were randomly grouped into 5 groups of six or seven. Every group was given the same to-do list
with 22 tasks. The tasks varied from doable, like taking a selfie with the entire
team in front of the club banner and liking the Rotaract CCS Facebook page to educational, like finding the charter year
and the charter president of Rotaract CCS to creative, like taking a photo of
the entire teams reflection on anything other than a mirror to downright bizarre
and embarrassing, like entire team humming the Mission impossible theme song
while everyone acts like a spy in a retail store and doing a coordinated
dance at a public place for any song to
simply impossible, like finding the title of the book with the most number of copies
in the Ichem library without the
assistance of the library staff.
Some tasks such as
taking a picture with a cow seemed simple and doable until you actually have
to do it. We looked around for a cow but not a single cow was to be seen that
day but some of the teams were smart enough to find the loopholes and to improvise the task that was given as it
doesn’t state whether the cow has to be real or not. So when they ask for a
photo with a cow, you take a selfie of the entire team with a picture of a cow
on a phone and give it to them.
At the end of it all the Team “7 nations army” which consists
of Savini, Kanchana, Pasindu, Sachini, Niresha, Kasuni and Esini emerged
victorious and won a hand of bananas which was shared by everybody.
It certainly was a
fun filled memorable day for everybody who took part. As for me I learnt that I
can become more proactive and I CAN wake up without hitting the snooze button
and change myself for the better. At the
end of the day I went home with two broken shoes and the knowledge that I can
be a little bit more braver and bolder everyday.
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