Our schedule was presented to us as this:
10:00 AM Visit Town Hall (Meeting with Vice President of the City of Opole)
12:00 Zumba
1:15 PM Lecture on Biomechanics
4:30 PM Visit to the Opole Public Library
5:00 PM Surprise!!
We all arrived at the Town Hall very excited to meet the Vice President of Opole. Everyone was so nice at the hall and there was a presentation for us. it was very informative and it gave a nice history of Opole. After the presentation, the Vice President was able to spend some time with us. He gave us a brief description of his duties and what he was doing to fulfill his time in office. It was a really unique opportunity to be able to sit down with him, because we would never experience that with the U.S. leaders.
After the meeting was over, we were all ready to dance in Zumba! The teacher was so energetic, that she almost made me feel like I was good at dancing....
We had a brief lecture on biomechanics that was a little confusing to me, but I appreciated it non the less.
After lunch and a bit of down time, we all met at the library for a tour. It was a really neat facility that had a modern flair. The outside of the building had a poem in giant text on it. It was in Polish and English which was nice because we were able to read it. The library was pretty new, but it had a lot of books and resources already! There was a huge room for younger kids that actually had games that you could rent for a night. Monopoly, Risk, Shoots and Ladders and other board games were in the room. I thought this was a great idea because board games can actually be around $20 a game now which is expensive when you kids want 20 different ones.
The tour guide knew a lot about the library and knew how to convey it well. In some tours it can drag on, particularly if it's about a building that may not be the most exciting. However, in this tour I really found myself interested to hear more. The library just seemed like a hang out place more than somewhere you have to go for school.
Once the tour was over, we found out from our guide that there was a surprise in store for us. We had already heard what it might be, but we still weren't 100% sure. Turns out, we were split into 2 teams and it was a race around the city! The scavenger hunt took us to places we hadn't really been before which was really nice.
We ended up having to climb rocks to find a clue, workout by the river, sing to everyone in Opole, and perform a Zumba dance. It was so exhilarating that we didn't care who won or lost (my team won). :)
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