amazing race - jail style.

one of the super fun programs we did with the inmates, was put together a little "amazing race" course for them. no, unfortunately they were not able to really go anywhere, but we gave them little obstacles - split them into two teams, and see which team would come out as the winner! the order of events were as follows:

1) puzzle time - put together the missing pieces to form a puzzle. to make it harder though, i combined ALL the pieces of the two puzzles together, so it was pretty funny to watch the teams fight over pieces. haha, and then, their competitive nature came out, and they started hiding some of the pieces from the other team, under their slippers. haha - oops.

2) pick a question - on individual slips of paper, they were given questions they needed to answer: // what activities did we do last week and what was the point of each activity? // what are 8 positive values to carry with you through life? // what are the 10 commandments? // who is on the 5 peso? ...it was fun cause we stuffed the questions in plastic easter eggs. haha!

3) word scramble - annie, the other social worker with me, choose different words, wrote one letter of each word on its own piece of paper, scrambled up the letters, and the teams were instructed to construct the word! one team got theirs SO fast! the other, not so much. :)

4) mummy time - after the word scramble, they had to wrap one of their teammates up like a mummy. it was pretty awesome. at first we were thinking this would not be good because this would be a waste of TP, BUT! of course, they were able to use it afterwards, for other purposes. this was VERY entertaining to watch!

5) sing to me - and then, their last part of the relay race, was to sing a song - BUT - their WHOLE team had to sing the song. one group sang, "hawak kamay" - haha, like, music to my ears. :) the second group sang, "bahay kubo." hahaha, pretty funny. :)

then came the process time. why did we do this? what meaning did this have for you? this is what they came up with:

group 1: for the puzzle we learned how to fixed our life to be a good model someday and also how to hear instructions. for the mummy we learned how to fulfill the damage or the vacant time or space that we had never done before and to give importance and lessons about the past. and for the song, it inspires and relate into our situation for now and it helps us how unite and how to love each one of us.

group 2: (translated from tagalog) for us, the activities showed us...the mummy because we are also wrapped here in the jail. we sang so that we would be able to express ourselves and our hearts, the puzzle so that we can have a chance at putting something together, and putting together the words so that we would each have a chance to see how we can help others.

it's great doing activities with the CICL, but one of my favorite parts is definitely the "process time" - what did you learn? why did we do this? it's also nice to see the boys smile.