On Saturday we went to the British Museum, the famed repository of ancient art. I had been there several times before, but this time was to be different. Instead of a leisurely stroll, we saw it through an “Amazing Race” style competition. Although in retrospect I, along with my teammates Anita, Noah, and Will, probably took the race too seriously, it was quite exhilarating. I even developed “Code Mancala” to maintain our “lead”. If another group was following us, we could split up, disappear into the museum, and meet up in the central courtyard if one of us said “Mancala”. Although it was never used, Code Mancala does give an indication about how seriously our team took the game. After solving the final riddle, we sprinted over to the Museum Tavern supremely confident that we were in the lead. However, another group was there before us. We lost the race by a matter of seconds despite our superb arithmetic skills. Afterwards, we thought the winning group had made a mistake by intercepting the term “galleon” as a ship rather than a coin. However it was not to be: the galleon in the riddle referred to the naval definition of the word. I had never quite understood why our team interpreted “galleon” to mean coin, but Haley told me a few days afterwards it was a Harry Potter reference. This reinforced my disposition of looking forward to reading Harry Potter for the first time later in the course.