More than Just an Escape Room

Shannon Mendez
Blog #4
7/6/19

More than Just an Escape Room 

Do you ever take a step back to take a closer look at the situation or do you ever find yourself wondering what puzzle pieces are missing to create a broader picture? Does a phrase never make sense until you read it twice and it slowly starts coming together to form a solution to a problem. Do you face an obstacle and think to yourself how it is all related to the puzzle pieces you already have? As things may seem to keep getting harder it might be getting easier due to experiences you have or simply because sometimes in life you have to think outside the box for it to all make sense. These are some of the questions and statements I started to formulate when a group of EYA interns and I went to an escape room earlier this week.

My first time being in an escape room was more interesting than what I expected it to be. The riddles and the clues are what makes things fun and enjoyable. At times we seemed to be stuck, but then we would come to realize that many of the answers to the riddles where within the phrases we were given. All we had to do was put the pieces together to try to save the king from the ransom. We all had fun putting our heads together to save the king before time ran out. The best part about the escape room was getting the chance to see how it all came together in the very end.

Furthermore, it made me realize how much faster and easier things could be done if everyone worked as a team. It also made me think of the special phrase that states “Working in unity can create more outcomes than ever imagined.” Most importantly, it made me think about my work placement for this summer works as a team to ensure tasks are done to work towards their objective and purpose. In addition, it made me think  about all the people who I see on a daily basis when I  to go work such as the construction worker, the janitor, the man with the hot dog stand, the people working in Congress, and so on. It made me think how all these people work within a team to construct something better and bigger for the people.

Being in the escape room was a lot of fun and I hope to do it all over again one day. It was a great experience and was good to see how we all got together to put the pieces in place. I hope to see more outcomes being accomplished with in teamwork especially within our community as an ethnic group. We can really demonstrate what we are capable of when we put our heads together and work diligently to make changes needed in our community.