The AMAZING HUNT!
February 19, 2006Hey guys how has your reading week started? Good ? Bad? Boring? Terrible?
Well mine started off pretty well and I am all excited about it and I just want this week to go as slower as possible!!!!! Please lord!!
Well yestedray the U of T Chemical Engineering department organized a leadership training event through the Alumni programme called the leaders of Tomorrow.. I thought you know why not try it and signed up for it….So I left home around 7.45 am and reached U fo T at about 8.45….I had no clue of what was going to happen and I didnt knwo anybody who came therefore I was like a loner sitting and waiting for everythgin to start… The leadership training session was really good… It reminded me of my fucking ESP course but wow the people who did this had a whole new dimension to it… They taught us important leader skills amazingly and practically….they ade act out different situations and made us talk with different people and the problems they face and how you can be a better leader and all of them amazingly… Prof. Susan McCahan u should have come to this traning and see how somethign is taught! seriosuly yesterday I was proved that the way ESP is been taught to us is a piece of shit!
Then later we had free pizza and pop for lunch and I got to talk with some of the first years that never tlak to me…not even smile at me… everybody who came had their own kinda set and we had the 8 people 1st year group! it was great fun watching the olympics and giving weird comments on the atheletes….
After that at 1pm my favourite part of the training started! Guess What? IT WAS THE AMAZING HUNT!!! oh man it was awesome! It was like the amazing race but with more brainy stuff to think about and it was done all throughout downtown Toronto!… We were divided into groups an I had two 3rd year girls in ym group their names were Padma Mahadevan and Emily Ghosh! They rocked! they are amazing people with alot of energy!
So the first part was a short answer thingy which is supposedly done by visint various landmarks in Toronto… Welll yeah it is only supposed to be.. therefore for everythign here somes the saviour! GOOGLE! We finsihed 3/4 of the short answer part… and about half of the crossword part right in sitting in front of the computer therefore we had more time for the rest…
We took the subway went to union station and conquered all the landmarks over there…like the Royal York hotel ( which is an amazing place) CBC center(Woot!) Union station…CIBC center… PATH and many many more… they after that we went to osgoode station and finished up the landmarks near City Hall… on the way we ahd to collect all sorts of thing mentioned in the list.. The fun part was writing a luv letter! awesome awesome! then when thsi wa sover Emily got really tired so we had to slow down for her ..becuase of that we were 4 minutes late for the given to be at the stop… therefore we lost some marks but guess what! WE WERE 2ND! we never expected that…we werent late we would have won oh well it was all fun! we got inetersting prizes for comming 2nd and we were the onyl team with 3 people! others had 4 or more people! WOOT! Emily we dont blame u…u were our superstar and also Padma! and me of course lol!
And finally we ahd a group picture taken and cheered all the way! It was FUN FUN FUN FUN! i there were more of these thigns happening! And above all Thanks to SONIA for orgazing this event and making it a meorable thing! Oh man shes awesome! shes fun nergetic and full fo surprises!
well this week I have so much research to do…homework to do and alot of field work too…
I am planngin to go for the Body worlds exhibition and Watch the awesome movie Rang De Basanti! other stuff are still in the planning!
Hope u guys have a great reading week too! Have fun!
