Today in geography we climbed Mount Everest. First we had to "take all our gear to base camp." So everyone in our "teams" (rows) took turns carrying each other's backpacks up and down the aisles. After everyone finished, we had to hike through the deadly ice path (i forgot the name of it). We had to climb over a chair and only step on the white pieces of paper to get across safely. When the teacher said freeze, we had to stop where we were and see if the bottom of the paper we were standing on had an x on it. If it did, we were dead. I died here. hahaha oh well. The next thing the rest of our team had to do was hike through the strech of the mountain where temperatures can get up to 100 degrees or more. So, while holding onto the "climbing rope" (an orange piece of string) the teams would have to walk back down the aisle on the pieces of paper. Halfway through they had to put on their "oxygen masks" (a half sheet of paper) and their sweaters, all without letting go of the string. If everyone made it this far, they would have to get to camp 3 and discover "trash" (all our backpacks from the first activity). Without taking off the oxygen masks, everyone had to help "clear the trash" (move it out of the way). All the teams headed back across the papers to see what was next. Each team now had to pick a number 1 through 10. The number your team leader picked either meant you had good weather and could go on to the summit, or you got bad weather and had to go back down the mountain. Two of the 5 groups got bad weather. Each person that go to go to the summit would climb on a chair to get on a desk and stick a sticky note with a decoration on it on the picture of the summit that was projected on the wall. (They all had to keep their oxygen masks on.) Everybody except one person made in the time they were given. I think it was 2 minutes...
It was a really fun activity, and it made everyone laugh a lot.