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Oct 3, 2015
Today is Friday October 2nd. For the last two days our challenge was to create and complete our own challenge. We brainstormed and came up with many ideas. We discussed our options and shared opinions. We eventually came to a group consensus to make a horror film. We set out and gathered our camping gear, […]
Oct 3, 2015
Max Abeywakaflocka, Sage Ryan , and Katie Mitchell decided to bless 20 homeschoolers with something they would never experience in their lives: Prom. They all starred in a well remarked show called Crazy Since the 80s. A show about 4 crazy roommates in the most glamorous city: New York. It shows them living, working and […]
Oct 3, 2015
To bring an end to the third week of the Adventure Semester, new groups got together for the first time to be together for a mere two days in which they would design a challenge designed completely by them. My group threw around a few options, but eventually settled on learning how to reupholster furniture both for […]
Oct 3, 2015
Finding your capacity for adaptation can be a challenging experience. Our group faced many obstacles these past few days, but we overcame them in an admirable way. On Thursday, we were tasked with designing our own two-day challenge, with little to no help from our facilitating staff member. Beginning with a decision about the decision […]
Sep 30, 2015
Our challenge was a little different this week, instead of the usual one day one challenge, we had two days to complete a larger project. Our project was a large scale art project, we decided to do a mural in the coyote commons. we began with a trip to the store, since paonia is very […]
Sep 30, 2015
These past 2 days have been intense for my group, and very accomplishing. We were the exercise group and we were true to our name. The first day our group (Joe, Katie M, Max C, Kieran, and myself) started out by waking up at 5:00 in the morning and driving to the base of Mt. […]
Sep 30, 2015
Our group (Joey, Macayla, Katie B., and Myself) did 2-day Adventure Challenges this week. This was our first 2-day challenge and it was a Theater challenge. Essentially our task at hand was to prepare and perform a theatrical performance during dinner on Tuesday, a dinner-theater type of event that would feature all of the Adventurers […]
Sep 30, 2015
We were told we could only bring 5 things each.. We brought 3, cause we are that good. We walked in just shorts and shoes. Jumping at crickets on the path to eat later. We stored them in Eric’s pocket (they escaped when he took a nap). Every so often we stopped and passed around […]
Sep 26, 2015
We are all familiar with discomfort. For instance, sometimes we encounter situations in which we are stuck in an unfamiliar place, looking to fulfill that one need – the need for a bathroom. Today, our group took this very source of discomfort into account. After several discussions, and some interviewing of the citizens of Paonia […]
Sep 26, 2015
There are so many people in the world. So many faces, so many stories, so many ideas and perspectives. Imagine if we all came together in this abundance and helped each other through life with our own wisdom and guidance. It is really very interesting to see how proud people get when you offer assistance […]