Day 5 - Portuguese and Lithuanian games

Day 5 in Estonia

In the morning, we got up quickly and ate, as usual, sandwiches with an omelette, so we have enough energy for the games the Portuguese group had organized. We couldn’t find a ball, so Joni made a ball out of paper and lots of tape, and it actually worked better than we expected! Even Picasso loved them. The first game involved using this ball and it was called “Matança” (translated to English it means to kill) It was about throwing our improvised ball onto other people, and whoever gets hit goes to the back of the other team to help knock it out. The second game was “Lenço“ (translated: flag). There are 2 teams of which everyone has his own number and one neutral holds a flag and shouts a number. The person whose number is said runs to the flag and tries to get it before everybody else. Whenever the neutral shouts “fire” everybody runs to the flag to try and catch it. The third game was “Corrente”(chain) or “Cobra”(snake). One person tries to catch everybody and whenever he catches someone, the person who got caught starts holding hands with the person who is catching, until they catch the whole team while holding each other’s hands. The last Portuguese game was “Congelados”(freeze). One person tries to catch everybody, and whenever he catches them they “freeze” and can’t move. Another person can unfreeze them by going between their legs. After all these tiring games we should’ve had a swimming session in the lake but the weather was way too cold, so we had free time. For lunch, we had salmon soup with bread prepared with butter, garlic and salt. It was extremely tasty, especially the bread! Then we played some Lithuanian games. After them, we had “reflection groups” which means that we had to give a score from 1/10 about our expectations, objectives, fears and contribution. Then we had dinner and after that we had a sauna night, but some of us didn’t go into the sauna. After that some of us watched horror films and went to bed.