Hi, apologies for blogging a day late.
So yesterday we started the day off with "icebreakers," activities and games designed to help us meet each other better and connect as RA groups while also having fun. We first went on a scavenger hunt, trying to find most of the buildings and places we'd be spending a lot of our time, as well as meeting the RAs at each station. Basically we had to do things at each station (like, one was invent a cool handshake, another say random words at an increasingly fast tempo without repeating words) that would allow the RA there to give us a number that ended up being a phone number. A lot of the stuff we did ended up on Instagram because that was also part of the activities. So you can see if you can find any there. (They're probably also on the NYO page.)
After that we played a game of Pruie (my take on the spelling--it's pronounced
A blog where a member of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America gladly and intricately recounts her experiences and thoughts along the NYO journey. She hopes you will join her here. (I need to stop talking in third person.)