New Jersey      2006

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Many evening activities are located in the cafeteria, the theater, or even the quad.  These activities require little physical movement, and more creativity.  Well, enough with the sedentary games, said the evening program coordinators.   

With Super Senior groups gathered in the quad, coordinators announced that they were going to play survivor.

Teri explained the rules:  each member of each team would have to hold on to a group rope.  The object of the game was to find hiding counselors, and collect badges which represented food, water, and shelter. 

All the while, four counselors (from left to right) Ryan, David, Paul, and Teri, were predators.  Their job was to actively search for groups.  if a group was caught by them, they would have to give up one of their life points, represented by a heart.

Teams began to organize, and get acquainted with each other, for they were in very close proximity to each other on the 8 foot ropes.

Teams searched the campus for counselors bearing survivor badges.

Some counselors were easy to find, hiding in bushes, or shrubs.

Many campers, in the beginning, did not take the game very seriously.

But they're attitudes changed when, while walking calmly around a corner, three predators jumped out on them.  Suffice it to say, the look of panic and fear, and subsequent lunge for something familiar to grab onto in a time of fright, were not feigned.

In the end, it was determined that the bunk group Pants, if left in the wilderness, and in need of laminated pieces of paper, would best survive.  On a personal note, I have been at camp for half a decade, and participated in numerous evening activities.  I must say that after following around both groups and predators, this was one of the most intense evening activities ever.