Nov 12, 2015
Future Looming all around you Unsure Of what to do So, you know what I did? I planned I emailed I worked I will hopefully be taking sign language classes I will soon be wilderness first aid certified I might help out a park ranger I know I might work at a marine biology camp […]
Nov 12, 2015
It’s week nine, day two, I’m Dave Vyas, and I have dedicated the past two days to sleep, food, and exercise- in short, active self-care. Let me begin with the origin story that brought me to this challenge. In the early days, when we were still filled with youthful folly (the second week of this […]
Nov 12, 2015
Over the course of the last 30 hours or so, I’ve done probably one of my least successful “challenges.” The reason I say this is because I decided to do a “two-part” challenge, and it didn’t really work out the way I hoped it would. For day 1, I embarked on a math journey. My […]
Nov 11, 2015
For the self designed challenge we each took a different outlook on cook crew. Instead of choosing something challenging to make, I chose a difficult way of doing it. I personally have a very hard time with obsessing over making everything perfect; I can’t stand if it’s 1.1 or 0.9 cups, it has to be […]
Nov 11, 2015
I have a horrible habit of picking really ambitious goals for my self designed challenges, and burning out around 2:30am. This sounds hilarious, but between the hours of 8pm and 2:30am last night I had 2 cups of coffee and 4 bowls of cereal. It seemed sane at the time. In Paonia, I did the […]
Nov 11, 2015
I decided to use this week’s self design challenge as a creative outlet. Sitting around for hours with a cup of coffee and my sketchbook, I cut and pasted a poem I had recently written about my (now ex) boyfriend into a four page zine layout. I also added a bunch of doodles I had […]
Nov 7, 2015
Pounding, pounding, pounding at your chest, the Particolor glimmer rises and falls; Time; Cold steel, cold snow, one two three one two three We built here.
Nov 6, 2015
Imagine being locked in small room with three other people for 36 hours with no electronics, no way to tell the time, and no connection to the outside world. Imagine the strange topics or thoughts that one’s mind can come up with in a situation like that. Imagine the little things that you don’t normally […]
Nov 6, 2015
Self-designed challenges historically do not go smoothly. They typically have little to no oversight from staff, and give a strong sense of being stranded in the open ocean without a life vest. Historically, but not this time. Our group was efficient and our challenge divvied up equally, based on each persons’ strength. Not much could […]
Nov 5, 2015
Hey everyone—we’re excited to announce new adventures for 2016 and 2017! Real World Retreat 2016 | Argentina Semester 2017 | High Desert Center Gap Year 2016-7 (Looking for something for participants under age 16? Keep your eyes peeled for a potential Fall 2016 writing retreat and/or international trip, to be announced in early 2016. Join our notification […]