GISHWHES

I didn't make the cookies. I'm so disappointed in myself.

I did, however, re-register for GISHWHES! It was so much fun last year and I'm really excited to participate again last year. It occurs to me that some people aren't completely certain of what it actually is, so let me explain.

GISHWHES stands for the greatest international scavenger hunt (the) world has ever seen. When you sign up and pay the registration fees (which this year starts at $18.89, or about £11.36) you either start a new team, join an existing team or sign up as an individual and later you'll be put into a team. Each team has 15 participants, and between everyone you work to complete items on a list of about 300 things. Some of last year's tasks were:

Make a safari animal out of sanitary products

Make a twitter page for an alarm clock, tweet once a day, and get at least 250 followers

Draw George Takei in the sand

Make a shrine to an actor on a show on The CW network, and worship at the shrine

Cover your car with trash

It lasts a week and you don't have to go anywhere in particular to do it, you just do what you can in your area. It's a lot of effort but it's totally worth it for the fun you have!

So far my team is myself and my friend KT, and teams consist of 15 people, so yeah, I'm really hoping some more of my friends decide they want to join in this year.