Scavenger Hunt Story
The Scavenger Hunt in Comm 208 started and our goal was “simple” … Good conversation!
My hunt began with two objectives: a cellphone photo of the subject, and a conversation about sports. It was not an easy task thanks to most of the people being in class or just doing homework with headphones; making my job much more difficult. A great set back but I sailed with determination to achieve my goal.
After a couple minutes of roaming around I decided the cafeteria was my best choice. Only a couple minutes after I took my decision I realized… the cafeteria opens at 11:00 am. But luckily in the wrong path I found the right people.
In a nice looking table decorated with some Hispanic blankets and signs reading Spanish club I found three very interesting people Aggie Mullen, Evelyn Hernandez, and Tyler Haberman. These three without me saying a word they started talking about DACA and explaining to me the whole situation (one that I already knew about) but they did it in such a passionate way that I just stood and listened. The main focus of my conversation was with Aggie Mullen a sophomore that is currently in the swimming team, she was very informed about the subject and was clearly the most extrovert of the group, at the end they encouraged me to call to congress and express my opinion until, until Evelyn Hernandez made Mullen go quiet and said “Oh wait… you are Venezuelan right? Then just ask your American friends to call… well I mean we’re all American because is one continent, but you get me” after this we laughed and I told them about my scavenger hunt to what they were very happy and even posed for multiple pictures.
After that my hunt continued to an interesting path. I decided the science center on the other side of the college was my next destination. To my surprise it was as empty as a mall after Black Friday. So the time now was 10:55 am and the idea of going back to the cafeteria was the only clear choice in my head.
A good choice indeed, the cafeteria was filled with people doing a line to get and have some food (a true shocker!) in here I met Justin Avereh a freshman currently majoring in music education. He told me he wasn’t an athlete but game nights with his family was a bug thing in his life, the broncos is the team him and his family support. But his true passion comes down when the season changes to winter and the hockey comes up as he said “hockey is always packed with emotion, not like basketball where the good stuff is only in the last 5 minutes” he also was happy to know that sometimes he didn’t have to pay for big boxing fights when hockey could also provide the fights.
After this I’m happy with my hunt, I met some very interesting people and I feel like I succeeded in my first goal… Good conversation!