Scavenger Hunt Thoughts

I think Elsa Maxwell's scavenger hunt is a great way to start people off into knowing and then befriending each other. Truth is, most people are easy to get along with, it's just difficult for two individuals to begin a friendship. People fear the unknown. For example it is not always easy to just start a conversation with someone you have no clue about. The scavenger hunt - however - gives groups of people a purpose, and not just any purpose, but one that is fun and causes people to cooperate and talk to each other.

If I were to do the scavenger hunt differently, I would head straight to the library (which we did, but we had to come back to the library towards the end due to poor organization) and utilize google images to complete the "harder" objectives, such as the duck/goose, De Anza President and someone named April/Apryl for points. Other than the ones that are improbable to find though, I had a lot of fun searching and improvising for the other hunts, so I wouldn't do that part differently. All in all I would just try to allocate our time for more efficiency (and not assume that it would be easy to find two Civics parked next to each other).

We did a good job though, completing most of the objectives. The aspect of the hunt that really sparked our creativity was that "Professor Berney won't be able to tell." For example we didn't really happen to find someone sleeping in the library, or someone that knew a legitimate dance move, but that wasn't important, because our pictures "proved" otherwise. At the end I enjoyed how this assignment made us think outside of the box.