As part of our ten-year celebrations, the Language Centre’s own “Amazing Race” was organised by the Unit for Afrikaans and English and approximately 50 of its students, mainly from the Faculty of Engineering and the International Office, took part in groups of four. This fun race took place over lunch time on Friday 28 September.
The race started and ended at the headquarters of the Unit for Afrikaans and English at 7 Bosman Street, where each student received a cap, a T-shirt, a water bottle and their first clue in Afrikaans and in English. The participants then had to follow one of two routes across campus and had to use their strategic reading skills to figure out where the clues given to them at each waypoint were leading them.
At each of these points, spread across campus from the Theological Seminary at the southern end to the Neelsie in the middle and the Engineering Faculty at the northern end, enthusiastic Language Centre staff members were waiting to give the groups their next clues as they arrived out of breath and occasionally quite confused.
It took the winning team, consisting of Ricky Chan, Ian Murphy, Maxwell Chiwawa and Tafadzwa Gurupira, only half an hour to finish the race. They were the very excited winners of the first prize of R500 per team member. The second- and third-place winners were rewarded with vouchers from Stellenbosch’s McDonalds and Wimpy.
It is safe to say that great fun was had by all – both the students who participated and the staff members who manned the various waypoints and organised the event. This event showed once again that language can be fun and we are considering making this an annual event for students of the Language Centre.
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