I very much enjoyed my time with the Teen Council during Susan’s absence. Lily, Kristen, Nick, Gina and Cara were very welcoming to the new guy, and obligingly played a get-to-know-you game with me. We played ‘I’ve Never…”, where each person starts with ten tokens of some kind (we used tickets), and people take turns saying things like “I’ve never broken a bone”, or “I’ve never been to Texas”, etc. The idea is to say things that you haven’t done but you think the others have, because if you’ve done that thing, you have to toss a ticket into the middle. Last one with a ticket wins the prize du jour, which was in this case a fancy chocolate bar I provided. The teens enjoyed ‘getting’ each other with questions like, “I’ve never shopped at Abercrombie and Fitch”, knowing full well that others of them had. I got some of them with “I’ve never set up a MySpace account”. We actually got our work done, too!
Tags: library, Northwest, NWL, Teen Council, teens
