Keystone Magazine Learning the Keystone Way 2015-2016 EN | Page 73

Board Games: Fun and Friends
We all remember having played
board games in our childhood
or teen years. And as life gets
busier, we find less and less time
to spend together with friends
or interact. “Our high school
lives are quite busy and tightly
packed so I wanted to organize
something fun but interactive
and that kept our tired brains
active,” says Wesley Wu, one of
the founders of the group. In
his attempt to get his friends to
spend time together and keep
their brains ticking, Wesley de-
cided to dust off some of the
old board games.
As you walk into the classroom
where the group meets, you
immediately notice that it is
quite a popular group amongst
high school students. But there
isn’t necessarily a board at each
weekly meeting as sometimes
they play group games that just
need an active brain, such as
Board Games
the popular game called Wink,
Wink or Killing. In this game, the
group has to identify the killer
through deduction and almost
no talking amongst each other.
Some of the other games they
play are: Werewolves of Miller’s
Hollow, Magic: The Gathering,
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft,
Boxing Club: Punch and Passion
Though he has been only learn- school student wanted to share
ing boxing for two years now, it his passion with his classmates
is David Ma’s passion. This high and friends through a Boxing
Boxing Club
and more. There are two levels
in the group: the basic level
focuses on getting familiar with
rules, while the intermediary
level focuses on improving
strategy. The students say that
this group is a great platform for
students to get to know each
other, and build friendships.
Club. David trains two groups –
one for beginners and another
for intermediary level students.
“It is really satisfying for me to
teach my friends boxing, and
even more so when I see them
progress so well,” says David with
a smile. David’s friend Johnson Li
joined the group out of curiosity
and a budding interest. “I realized
how much I had misunderstood
the sport after I joined the Club,”
exclaims Johnson, adding, “It is
not a way to fight, but a sport like
any other. I have also become
more persistent and tend to
persevere more now than before
I joined the group.” Watch the
video below, as a few students
pack a punch in Keystone’s box-
ing club.
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