Welcome & Challenge #1

Creative Adventures is a blog created and maintained by five college students who decided that pushing themselves would both inspire personal growth and encourage development in its readers. Each week the Creative Adventures team will be assigned a challenge. The five members will then partake of the challenge and write a detailed blog describing the events and their troubles with each challenge.

The following is a detail list of our first three weeks of challenges:

• Week #1: Free hugs. The team will offer free hugs to strangers and see if they accept. This involves a coming out of one's personal bubble and breaking into the shell of others.

• Week #2: Write a love song. The team will write a love song to see who is the most successful at the challenge. This involves a creative writing challenge in which form is just as important as content. Bonus points if the team members record themselves singing their song.

• Week #3: Tacky clothes day. The team will dress in what they consider tacky clothes and attend school for a day. The blog will record reactions of those around the students. This involves coming out of one's shell to the point of ridicule, a challenge that few would readily accept.

This post constitutes as Week #1. The challenge is simple: Offer free hugs to friends, strangers, anyone you see, and collect their reactions. Try to offer as many free hugs as possible. Signs offering free hugs are welcome as are T-shirts if you have them. Make sure to offer hugs to as many different people as you can, though I wouldn't suggest hugging a hobo.

Be safe and have fun, team!