OME Magazine

The Secret Room
by Lilien Gruber 8C
Last year´s OME editorial team.
Last semester our teacher, Mr. Mayr, invited us to join him on a surprise excursion. On a Friday he
took us to a place called “the secret room”. Even when we arrived we had no clue what it meant; the
secret room?
We were soon to find out. We were separated into 2 groups. One group consisted of all 8th graders
and the other one of the 7th graders. Back then I was in grade 7.
Then a man who was working there explained to us the meaning of the secret room. We were locked
into a room and we had to manage to get out in 60 minutes max. But it was not that easy. We could
not just break the door. We had to solve a lot of different logical exercises to get the secret code to
the door to get out. The 8th graders went to a room where they had to unlock the door plus they
had to deactivate a bomb. We, the seventh graders, went to another room. We were locked into a
pyramid. The challenge was that we had to open 2 extra doors to get the four numbers of the code
for the front door. At first we had no idea how we should get out because the first math exercise was
quite difficult. But in the end we could manage to escape. The whole activity was really entertaining.
One hour passed really quickly. Afterwards, Mr. Mayr invited us for an ice cream.
I had an amazing day. I initially already liked working for the editorial team, but after this trip I even
loved it. I am sure that this year working for the Magazine is also going to be amazing and a good
possibility to improve my writing skills. Moreover, I am sure I will still have a lot of fun.