Gish Update

In the summer, as per my Blog Post about Gishwhes, I was on Team LeRadis and participated in The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen.

It was Awesome. Hecktic. Terrifying. Freeing. Wonderful...

It was our 1st year as a team and had only one veteran to guide us through the mayhem. She was awesome, by the way.

Gish has a swag shop that offers a variety of apparel and what-not to purchase. The shop is open for a short time at registration and again for a little while after the hunt is done. Several team mates purchased a number of different things including cool shirts and the colourful Coffee Table Book.
As expected, but not without disappointment, we were not the winning team. We weren't even a runner-up. That's ok by us, we all had a great time, and I think most of us will do it again.

One of the fun parts after the hunt is... FEGVEP ... I don't know what that stands for... hang on, let me look it up... "First Ever GISHWHES Volunteer Extraordinaire Program" Ya. That. Not completely intuitive as to what that means. Basically Gish participants can volunteer to review submissions. They are given a selection of submission for a Hunt Item and they rank the ones they like the most; pick their 3 favorites. (They system is set up so that the volunteer doesn't get to review their own submission.)  I participated in this part as well, as did some of my teammates. Again. Super fun and Wow. some of the submissions were Fantastic!

Rach made the book too! - pg 207

The out-come of FEGVEP was the Coffee Table Book. The submissions that were ranked highest were put into the book.  Its another way for teams to get recognition for great submissions even if they aren't the winning team.

The tricky part is that you don't know if you're going to be in the book or not when you order it. You place your order before the judging even starts.  I didn't order a book. But. some of my team mates did.

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When the book arrived, we were astonished to learn that our team had made it to the book! TWICE!! How Cool is That?!?

I received a frantically joyous text from our fearless co-captain telling me that I made the book!  Me! One of my submissions made the book! I was pretty stoked! She graciously sent me a quick pic of myself, and later brought the book for me to see in person. We made the book - at least twice - it's a big book, so we've only found these so far. Maybe there's more.


So much fun and some awesome entries.

Until next time - Be Good to Each Other.

#AKF