GISHWHES!

What is GISHWHES, you ask? Well, it is the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen! Actually though.
Here is a link to a promotional video for GISHWHES 2012!
GISHWHES is an international scavenger hunt that was created by actor Misha Collins from the popular CW show Supernatural. Misha is not only known for being a great actor, he is actually known for just being an awesome person.
With this scavenger hunt, Misha encourages participants to step outside of their comfort zone. For 7 days, participants go on an adventure to try to capture certain 'items' with their camera. Some of the tasks this year include capturing picture or video of a storm trooper in full costume cleaning a pool, using a Zamboni to draw a giant frowny face on an ice-skating rink, knitting a scarf over 12 feet long, giving a puppet show at a children's hospital, going shopping for diamonds in a wig made of popcorn, making a kilt entirely out of cucumbers, creating a mock news show, and 145 more!
I am one of the lucky ones to be participating in this year's hunt and our team, I think, is actually doing really well! We might actually have a chance at the grand prize, which is staying in a private haunted castle in Scotland with none other than Misha Collins himself! Our team of 15 has people from all over the United States. My group consists of girls from Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, Michigan, and Minnesota. Our team name is Hawkeye and the Awkettes loves crossstateepicness, but we're also known as crossstateavengers for short. Together we have been working hard since late Monday night to complete as many tasks as possible. I would post some of our work, but we're not allowed to yet until the scavenger hunt is over. Tonight we completed the mock news program, as mentioned above, in Studio B of Park and then next, us Ithaca girls, are going to create an 'erotically charged' scene with dialogue that only talks about grammar and font. This should be very fun to shoot!
A participant from last year's hunt, Savannah Comilla, said, "GISHWHES isn't just a scavenger hunt, it's like 10 days of pure thought, inspiration & creation."Although this year it's only 7 days, after 3 days alone, I have had some great experiences that have required me to think very creatively, artistically, and outside of the box. I hope this scavenger hunt becomes a definite annual thing because I am having so much fun!