Oct 21, 2015
“Can you tell me more about that?” “Why do you think that you feel that way?” These are some of the questions we learned to ask today as we embarked on the communications and listening challenge. We served as listeners to the community today by validating and understanding where everyone was coming from with their […]
Oct 21, 2015
Give it a good college try. That’s what we did today. Try. A lot. My group was given several challenges to complete during our visit at Western State Colorado University. Our challenges were to talk with professors, students, admissions, as well as sit in on lectures. A bonus challenge was to get a student to […]
Oct 20, 2015
Communicating while cold and hungry is a challenge in and of itself, and our group got plenty of experience with it today. We were tasked with starting fires without flint & steel, matches, lighters, etc. We had to use materials that we found scavenging around town, and with the fires, we would prepare our lunch. […]
Oct 20, 2015
Today our challenge was to practice our listening skills with each other, learn how to talk about and discuss controversial topics, and then go out into the streets with signs asking a controversial question and listen to what peoples’ thoughts were on that topic. We started our day with taking the bus up to […]
Oct 20, 2015
College: indeed a loaded subject for many unschoolers. Today our challenge was to navigate the Western Colorado State College campus as prospective students. A scavenger-hunt-esque challenge, minus the points and competition, plus real world skills. Some of the items on our list were to talk to an admissions officer about the requirements of applying as […]
Oct 20, 2015
It was a dark and stormy night, in a small town where, if you come up with any business idea aside from a coffee shop, you won’t have any competition. We were given $20 of seed money to make into the biggest amount possible in 5 hours. Ideas of bake sales and conversation booths were […]
Oct 15, 2015
For my individual challenge, I chose to write a short story. Not only was I planning to finish said story, but I also hoped to send it out into the world to be shared or even published. …I failed. Well, at least I failed the challenge within the guidelines that I had established. I certainly […]
Oct 14, 2015
I’m Lil. The past two days we did individual self designed challenges, and I challenged myself to write record and produce an EP and post it to Bandcamp. The first day was filled with a lot of procrastination, tears, pep talks, recording, deleting and rerecording. At the end of the day I had two very […]
Oct 14, 2015
In a hole, in the ground, there lived… Failure. Yes folks I failed. I failed in the sense that I did not complete the challenge that I set for myself. But I did come away with a few different lessons, and the aspiration to record a little more of The Hobbit audiobook every weekend for […]
Oct 14, 2015
This Monday and Tuesday, everyone was tasked with creating their own self designed, solo challenge. I decided, after hearing the input of some of my friends, that writing a song, performing it, and posting the performance online would be the perfect challenge for me. I enjoy music and love playing my guitar, but I am […]