Fantastic Fun For All 2007 "Extreme Medieval Sports" Memories...

One of the courses in my slowly chiseling towards a degree in Therapeutic Recreation aka recreation therapy, is the Recreation Programming course. We created lots of great proejcts, activities, etc. I came up with an event for the Deaf community with 10 activities, which was voted by the class as the "best" event (separate posting at some point), and we did many items together.

Each year, the Spring class puts together ane event for the Spokane, WA neighborhood known as the Hillyard area. Apparently this is supposed to be "the poorest zipe code in the Washington state and the second 'hungriest' zip code in the USA".

So each year, EWU students put together a fun event for the children of this district, from donations from businesses and individuals solicited by the EWU students around the area. The list of sponsors is lengthy.

Each year there is a different theme. We brainstormed for a while, and I had thrown out there: Medieval (shocker!), (as well as Matrix, and Scifi and others), also Extreme Sports.

I jokingly said, "how about "Extreme Medieval Sports". People laughed, then we all paused and said wait a minute. and unanimously the class voted for that theme.

This included my jousting (on chairs) event, and others had other great themes. I will post some photos shortly for each. It was a blast of an event.

I have to run to an appointment, I'll be back in a few to continue this, as well as upload pics.

TTFN.

-Hawke

Ok. I'm back.

Below are various pics with captions...

Many food donations from various tores, restaurants and individuals: