Sep 16, 2015
Today, a group of four strapping youths embarked upon a journey they had already witnessed several of their peers embark upon. Each was to construct a bird house from recycled materials. This task required the overcoming of a challanges ranging from the mastery and sharing of certain construction tools, the intricacies of bird house architecture, […]
Sep 16, 2015
The challenge today was to find a song that has a dance routine, and to learn and add our own twists (Pun intended) to said dance. Our group (Myself, Aubrie, Katie M, Midge, and Joey) was very lucky in that we all agreed on a song very quickly. we chose Slam Jam (Aubrie’s amazing idea). […]
Sep 16, 2015
Today, we were tasked with traversing the landscape unseen by humans to a pre-determined destination. To begin the planning process, we looked at a map of the area and plotted out a route that seemed to be fairly uninhabited. Spotting a bridge much further down the tree line, we chose that as our crossing point […]
Sep 16, 2015
It is the third day of challenges in the UA Adventure Semester. Today our challenge was to effectively argue the opposing positions on two subjects we had strong opinions and intuition about as a group. The topics we discussed were whether there should be more or less standardized testing in schools, and whether the moon […]
Sep 15, 2015
Waking up in a flooded tent, holding my laptop over my head, I realized today could only go up from here. We started cooking at 7, and our group prepared a breakfast of the normal oatmeal, along with a tofu veggie egg scramble. Although this was met with looks of confusion, everyone ended up wanting […]
Sep 15, 2015
On our first day, we danced. It was indeed challenging, but not until today did our group of five truly experience the meaning of the Adventure Semester. Our challenge was to walk into the town of Paonia from our mountain camp (and back) without being seen by anyone. When we began, our groups’ dynamics were […]
Sep 15, 2015
We began the day with a march down to the barn. We debated on how we would approach the current challenge; to learn and choreograph a dance strictly from a video. We understood the physical limitations that each other had and molded our approach to fit them. Upon arriving, we put on some music and […]
Sep 15, 2015
It’s day two here at the Adventure Semester and today my group’s challenge involved questioning the validity of our beliefs. Since we had already heard last night’s presentation from yesterday’s group, we had a general idea of what to expect. Our first goal was to come up with every possible “PRO” argument for two statements that we had […]
Sep 15, 2015
Making a birdhouse sounds easy right? Well let me tell you I had the exact same thought before I started looking for scraps and hammering for many hours. Our adventure began when our instructor, Dev drove our group of four down to his barn to start looking for scraps. I saw a nice old green […]
Sep 15, 2015
Today we ventured off with Marian to a small farm owned by Lincoln and Jeanie. Once we arrived, ducks and turkeys came out to greet us. There were also two goats, one of them Jeanie was talking with (so sweet!) because the goat was going to a new home the next day. Beyond their farm […]