It’s no secret that I’m a hopeless romantic, and seeing this almost brought me to tears. However, when he pulled out the box during this Adventure Challenge date, it was the first time I had learned that he had kept the box for the half-decade where we hadn’t spoken to each other (including since we decided on making it ‘official’ this time around). I had worked too hard on it to have the heart to toss my little project, but I hadn’t cared (in the moment) if he did. Of course, after breaking up, I wanted nothing to do with those memories, and so I gave the box to him and told him to do what he wanted with it. Slowly, I had been collecting and saving little mementos from all of our dates and outings together, placing them in the box in chronological order with tabbed dividers to organize everything by month. We broke up weeks before Valentine’s Day, and, being the planner that I am, I had already had his Valentine’s Day gift planned months in advance. When he placed it in front of me and lifted the lid, I was stunned.Ī little bit of backstory: T and I dated for less than a year back in 20 I was just 19 when we met at work, and the relationship was a short, emotionally charged whirlwind. When he returned, he had a fancy red box in his hand, the gold damask pattern overlaid making it look somewhat familiar to me. Once we scratched this date off, before I could even ask if he had a couple of shoeboxes around for us to decorate, he left the table we’d been sitting at and disappeared.
#THE ADVENTURE CHALLENGE MOVIE#
For example, movie tickets, fortune cookie fortunes, a coin from a wishing well, a rock from a water fountain. Fill the box with small treasures from your dates. This is going to be a box that sticks with you for a long time. Take time to decorate and personalize it. Create your own epic couple’s memory box! Start with a shoebox, cigar box, jewelry box, etc. You don’t have to be a pirate to find great treasure. T: “Making comics together was a fun time, not to mention comically revealing our common subject matter.”Į: “We also had the same idea of writing in Japanese characters, instead of with Chinese characters.” Date 2: Couple’s Booty
It was so much fun to mentally go over everything we’ve been through since we first met at work (and the first time we dated) in 2014, and then everything that has happened since we met up for the first time in January of 2020. I snuck in a seventh panel there was no getting around it. By the time we cleared off the table, piled up some paper and grabbed the pencils to start our rough draft, I knew I was going to be cheating. I’ll be honest: I was a bit distracted, thinking about fitting our relationship story in just three to six panels of a comic strip. Then, to set the tone of our Japanese manga-inspired Adventure Challenge, we watched Kiki’s Delivery Service while eating our food. After reading the instructions, we both immediately suggested, at the same time, to do Japanese characters instead of Chinese. This was the first date we embarked on together, and it was such a fun experience! We started the night by ordering in sushi (ah, the joys of being in a lockdown after Boxing Day) before scratching off our chosen date, ‘Foreign Doppelgänger.’ The helpful hints showed that it would be indoors and free, which was exactly what we were looking for, for a night indoors without proper planning. If your ass isn’t super broke, find a “customer comic strip” service online and order the comic book of your love story! Here’s the catch: all the words must be written using Chinese characters (use Google Translate for assistance). Draw pictures, write captions, and colour it in. Create a comic strip with 3-6 panels that tell the story of your relationship.
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