Chess

I’ve been teaching kids how to play chess for the past few days.  I don’t especially like the game, and I’m not very good at it, but everyone is amazed by it.  Most of them have picked it up really quickly, but very few seem to grasp how the pawns move.  They constantly try to make them move sideways, backwards, and diagonal, and attack by moving forward. 

One girl picked up the game really quickly. She got the hang of backing up her moves, and beat a few of the guys pretty easily.

Between chess and Uno, I’ve been playing a lot of games lately.  I started to make progress on the community diagnostic, but then all my youth decided that they did not want to go around doing surveys… soooo I’ve gotta find some new youth.