Kalahari Rewind: Part 1

by Ben Framstad

So how does the biggest event of the whole entire school year begin for Wooster Grace Students? Well, I can at least share my side of the story. I helped the student ministry team tackle "check-in" on Friday afternoon for the 200 people we had scheduled to go to Kalahari this year. It had potential to be a MAD HOUSE, but since this is the fourth year now since the Kalahari tradition began, we kinda knew how to pull everybody together in the least amount of stress possible. Score!

Then it was a mad dash to the buses. We took not 2...not 3...but 4 buses to Sandusky, OH. On my bus, I sat with Joel, Megan, Kendra, Savannah, and Lori. We told jokes until we got bored of that. Then we played "Big Booty" (a completely appropriate game that regrettably uses a getto-fabulous synonym for an enlarged posterior as it's name) until we got bored of that. Then we played the Korean Slap Game. Let me explain. Everyone is in a circle and the group has one leader. The leader counts to three and then makes one of four known Korean Slap Game signs with his hands. At the same time, the other group members randomly choose to make one of the four signs as well. If they match with the leader (kinda like "rock, paper, scissors"), the leader gets to slap their hands a determined number of times based on the value of the sign. It's kinda violent. My hands were throbbing and bright red by the time I was done playing. 

When we arrived at Kalahari Resort, we waited on the bus a bit too long, but finally got to get off and grab our stuff. It was a little crazy getting everything to our rooms and to the conference center, but we did okay. The energy was high because this was it - the moment we had all been waiting for: Kalahari! I could share more but I'll wait and let someone else jump in tomorrow!