Sep 24, 2015
The places your head goes in five hours of silence. I can only speak for myself but I am sure everyone felt just bored sometimes. Poking shrubs with twigs and and wondering how much longer. I thought about my future and pictured myself in 10, 20 years wondering how I’ll look, what I’ll do. Although […]
Sep 24, 2015
Today my group embarked upon the most hands-off challenge to date. Many previous adventures involved a group interpretting a challenge as they saw fit, but all envolved a greater deal of staff oversight than this one. This challenge only possessed an end goal: a map that was both accurate and informative, and that highlighted something […]
Sep 24, 2015
What is a radical act of kindness? It should be something that stretches you out of your comfort zone. You should go significantly out of your way to make the other person’s day. It should require a little bit of personal sacrifice. Today, we found out just how difficult it is to brighten someone’s day. […]
Sep 24, 2015
A month or so ago I shaved my head. Little did I know, it would become one of our challenges. My Britney Spears moment became something of a trend, and I had a lot of fun shaving my friends heads in the middle of a field, surrounded by squawking turkeys. Our challenge was this: look […]
Sep 23, 2015
5am wake ups usually mean a flight or a crying baby. Today, it meant the start to a 6 hour meditation in the woods. The evening before we embarked on our journey, we got together and discussed the terms of the challenge. Our group decided we wanted to fast for the 6 hours, and we […]
Sep 23, 2015
Do you remember the last time a stranger did something for you and how it made you feel? Today’s challenge was to perform radical acts of kindness for others. Our goal was to complete two acts of kindness on our own in the span of two hours, then to collaborate on two group projects for […]
Sep 23, 2015
What is your style? What impression do you try to make on other people? These, and more, were the questions my group answered this morning. Through discussing our answers to these questions, we all got a lot more in touch with the way we present to the world. Then, we were challenged to radically change […]
Sep 23, 2015
Today our group did the map-making challenge. We decided to do a map of the cool art-related places (Murals, Statues, Sculptures, etc.) in Paonia to hand out to tourists during the mountain harvest festival. We started our day off with a ride down to the Paonia Public Library. From there we brainstormed a bit and […]
Sep 22, 2015
First day of new challenges in week two, with a completely new group! Today’s challenge entailed doing four radical acts of kindness, two on our own and two as a group. One as a group must be completed for recognition and one anonymous Spencer, Dave, Joe, Kieran, Aubrie, and Ari as facilitator started off the […]
Sep 22, 2015
Today our challenge was to cut each other’s hair and do some internal/external makeovers. Before we even began Jack decided to shave his legs, which ended in the lovely discovery of mild ringworm. Whoops. Our first task was to find out hair cutting techniques and brainstorm about it because no one had much haircutting experience […]