[ASTalumna06]

It really did amaze me that people couldn't figure out the gold challenge. Don't get me wrong.. actually doing the calculations would have been difficult for me without a calculator (I'm horrible at math!). But there were teams who didn't even know how to solve it. That's what was kind of sad about the whole thing.

The waterslide... I was frustrated myself when I saw that Mika wasn't going to go down. I love the Globetrotters, but I was still kind of rooting for her to suck it up and do it. I know for me, it would have been nothing to grab the bars and pull myself over the edge. But I likened the situation to something that I'm afraid of.. I know I'm deathly afraid of spiders. If someone just tried shoving one in my face and started yelling, "Just hold it!" I'd try my hardest to get away from it (while screaming and crying hysterically).

I truly think Canaan might have been able to get her to go down the slide if he actually helped her, told her he knew she could do it, and encouraged her. She actually sat down and looked like she was ready to do it a couple of times. But then he'd walk over and try to take her hands off of the bar and make her go down. And I think walking away was maybe one of the worst things he could have done. Backing off is one thing.. walking away and looking frustrated in the corner is another. It probably made her feel even more so that she was letting him down.