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Nov 22, 2015
Today (*sniff) we had our final official challenges of the Adventure Semester. In the build-up to this Thursday we did not know what our last two days would have in store, until we started to receive emails. Each participant was told that they would have one partner, and were given varying degrees of information. Rather […]
Nov 22, 2015
For our last challenge of the Adventure Semester, Midge and I were challenged to… Wait. No. We didn’t know what our challenge was. Let’s start over. This morning, Blake told us to get into his car and then he blindfolded us. We drove for roughly 40 minutes, and finally got out, took off our blindfolds […]
Nov 22, 2015
Hi, I’m Spencer, and this is Jack O’News and today our challenge was to do a comedy routine and perform it in front of 4 groups of 20 people and have 1 person in the audience film it. This proved to be much more difficult then originally thought, and made me feel so uncreative, it […]
Nov 22, 2015
Today Oscar’s and my challenge was to set up a complaint table outside, then to have people write down their complaint. Later on, we were to make a creative writing piece about it and send it to them. However, it was clear from the beginning that each of us had complaints of our own. I felt […]
Nov 22, 2015
“With a budget of $200, makeover Dev’s look in a “business classy” fashion…aka cash money is king and make that man look fiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnneeee!” Lily and I made over Dev today from his normal farm life style into a classy business man. We spent over 3 hours in H&M working on finding clothes to fit him […]
Nov 22, 2015
Pop and I are the story nerds in this group of 21 kids. We spent our past individual self designed challenges working on some sort of writing. So it was no surprise that when we were given challenges according to our interests, we were tasked with meeting with someone who develops games for a living […]
Nov 22, 2015
Yesterday, I got an email from Blake. All it said was that Dave and I were going to be in a group together, and that we should meet him the following morning with a small list of items, namely, our instruments. Once we met up the next morning, Blake led us to his car without […]
Nov 22, 2015
Nelson Mandela said, “If you talk to a person in a language they understand, it goes to their head. If you talk to them in their language, it goes to their heart.” We were given the challenge to learn a couple phrases in 5 different languages, and we not only did that, but we connected […]
Nov 22, 2015
Solo living in a big city is not as scary as it sounds. Of course, there are going to be scary situations, as we experienced these past three days, but once you get your bearings and understand how to react, things get easy. These past few days, we were given the challenge of creating a […]
Nov 22, 2015
Why did we do this? Why did we decide to sacrifice 10 weeks of our lives and thousands of dollars to a program that would pull us together from every corner of the continent? We didn’t do it because it was fun, we didn’t do it for a vacation from our every day life, and […]