Quels

Last night, some friends and I went to my friend Xiuting's host family to celebrate her 2oth birthday, which turned out to be a very interesting party.

Her host familly decorated their house elaborately with purple table cloth, colorful ballons. And we were served with delicious dinner and dessert. And they are very nice people, Matt, who is humourous and considerate, and Kendra is generous and outgoing. We all felt very warm and casual. Their kids are so lovely and agile, especially the little girl, Carol. Everybody loves her, she is so cute and like a little angel!

The most interesting part was that we played a game which is called "Quels". I think it is a quiet bizarre game. We played in group of 2 or individually, and chose a character for ourselves. Then, we threw the dice, and let the character went several steps on a colorful board in accordance with the number on the dice. After the character stopped, we got a card that went with the same color the character stamped. We should follow the instructions the card indicated. It's the bizarre part. Some card said you should put your hand on floor until next turn, otherwise you would get penalty- going backward. And somebody had to mime like he was in a box and biting by strange creatures. I think the funniest one was to imitate the flush sound of toilet, and Matt did it perfectly!

There were a variety of odd instructions fulling of suspenses and made us nervous, as you didn't know if it was you that would make a gaffe when you drop the dice next time. Well, I strongly recommend this game. Though it's designed for kids to some extend, I think it suits us as well, especially when you are bored.