02-19-2014, 02:20 PM
Within about fifteen minutes, a few winners had appeared. Those crowned winners had their photos taken, as did everyone else who played the game. Anna was a tad jealous that she didn't been assigned as a photographer but she soon realized that these people were hired people who couldn't partake in the camp's activities. Perhaps just taking photos wouldn't be that fun, she thought. After all, she was here for the camp and to meet new people. Maybe find someone who might just steal her heart, too.
The first game came to an end and the older Japanese man came back out on the stage. He was suppressing a laugh and congratulated everyone on their partaking in the game. Immediately after, he called out camper names and assigned them to their proper teams. A sigh of relief came from Anna when Mikheil was placed on her team too. Looking around the body of campers, she eventually spied him and give him a cheesy grin and a thumb's up. At least she knew someone. Granted, Eve was on her team and that didn't bode well with her. Oh well, she mused, at least she had the active counselor, Billy. Even if he was a bit of a jerk, at least he was entertaining.
As everyone broke off into their teams, Anna happily found her way back beside Mikheil. "I saw you became an Rexy. Nicely done! I kept losing so I only every advanced to a chicken. Oops." It was true, luck just wasn't on her side this go around.
"It's okay, Anna. The first time we counselors played, I was stuck an egg. It's how I magically became the announcer for the game. I just had this bad habit of constantly throwing the wrong signs." Billy now stood behind the pair, but soon stepped around them to coax the team toward their designated spot.
"This is where we, the Olympians, will do all our activities. As you can see, all your rooms are in the red section," he said while pointing to the dark red roofs on their cabins. "Suzanna and I each have one game to share with all of you before we all take a break and get settled in. The games are pretty simple. We'll start with mine since it's a bit active and then we'll shift into Suzanna's.
Walking toward a fire circle, he broke the team of ten campers into two groups of five. Explaining the game, which was a spelling contest, Billy finally give the campers the last tid-bit of information. "Oh and I forgot to mention. To spell your name, you need to use your butt. Yup, you'll be shaking that ass to spell out your entire name -- first, middle, and last." Demonstrating, he spelled out his entire name by shaking his butt and hopping from time to time. "Remember to dot your Is and cross your Ts, too!" A stopwatch was soon in his hand and a photo crew came over to record the event. The second his hand hit the start button, the first member of each team ran forward and began shaking their butt in a mad attempt to spell their full name. Laughter willed the air and by the time the last two people were shaking their rears, a chant-like clapping followed.
"Well done, teams! Well, done!" It was a landslid victory for team B, though. Team A magically had some campers with extremely long names, as both Anna and Constance were on the same team. "Well, Suzanna, you're up." Escorting the campers back to a grassy knoll, he plopped in the grass. "Circle up," Billy instructed. Anna, knowing that the spot beside Billy wouldn't be claimed, took her place beside the freckled counselor. Her blue orbs spied a ball and she instantly knew the game. "Ah, the question ball game. Good choice," she chirped.
"That's right. We'll be playing the question ball game. You gently toss the ball to someone in the circle. The person who catches it says their name and then answers a question. You can either answer the question on your left thumb or right thumb." Billy was doing the talking as Suzanna needed to inflate the ball some. There was no point in stalling while she puffed air into the ball to push out a kink. "We'll play this until everyone has had the ball at least once. But don't feel obligated to throw it to someone who hasn't gotten it. You can give it to Megumi ten times in a row, if you want. This is just for fun and so we can learn something about one another."
Turning to Suzanna, Billy nodded. This signaled that she could now take over and begin the game.
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