In the beginning of September we started to work on the Escape game. The teachers told us that we should did create two challenges on three because Sydney's students were working on the third challenge. The main theme was water and we decided to take th Legends/mythology of the Loch Ness, the Titicaca lake and Odysseus which was imagined by the Australian students.
- The Odysseus challenge
Imagined by the Sydneysiders. The Sartrouvillois were communicating with them and it's only the week before, at the High school Evariste Galois, that we created the challenge with their instructions. It's the week before the escape game played that we assemble together the orders. The six steps (crossword puzzle, riddle, translation greek-english .We have met the difficulties to create the enigma where someone must be tied and put a pencil in his mouth (a strange instruction!). We have changed this part, the player must just be tied and put ear plugs.
- The Titicaca lake
When we started to create the Titicaca challenge we thought about the plot of the story, we finally chose to hide some parchments to tell about the original legends of the Titicaca's lake to our guests. The first parchment was on a little library, the second behind a picture of a puma and the third in a glass box.
In the beginning we had chosen to hide one of the parchments in a chest and hide a key in a fresco. But our group decided to change those things because the fresco represented too much work and the part with the chest was too difficult for our guests.
In the beginning we were slow and stuck because we didn't have any idea of what we should have done, but finally we made all of the details in the last hours, it was like a run and it was very funny.
We took the train at 8:30 am to go to Paris. We were 46 students and teachers. When we arrived, we first visited the "Pavillon de l'eau" which is a place of information and sensitization of the public about water in Paris, there were also paintings and sculptures on the theme of water. Then we started our walk along the Seine at 10:30 am. Each Evariste Galois student talked in English to the Italian, Croatian, Spanish, French and Romanian students. We talked about the water of Seine, bridges and monuments like The Eiffel Tower or the National Assembly. It was sunny, so it was the perfect weather. We stopped at "Jardin des Tuileries" at 12:30 to eat and then we took the train back to Sartrouville.
