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Sep 19, 2015
Today our group finally experienced the long awaited dancing challenge! Last night, Tabi, our mentor, told us that we would have to choose our dance song within an hour. If we failed, we would have to dance to M.C. Hammer’s 2 Legit 2 Quit. But since our group, over the past week, has developed into […]
Sep 18, 2015
Today our group was challenged to build bird houses out of scraps found around the Paonia property. These included but weren’t limited to: planks of wood, sheets of tin, cabinets, bookshelves, wire, and even an old sink. We had roughly 5 hours to complete this task, which at the beginning seemed like ample time, until […]
Sep 18, 2015
Today our group and I explored our thoughts and debated whether or not vaccines should be mandatory for children and whether or not marijuana should be fully legalized nationwide. We looked at the both sides of the argument and debated with Blake on these topics. We learned about confirmation bias and discovered that our own […]
Sep 18, 2015
Imagine trying to mimic the remarkable moves of Michael Jackson within 5 hours. It sounds challenging because it definitely is. The day started with the four of us looking through YouTube and finding funky music to jam to. After we got into a dancing mood we looked through YouTube once more to look for a […]
Sep 17, 2015
Garbage is everywhere, in our homes, our dumpsters, and our city waste processing facilities. It’s undeniable that we live in a waste producing culture. However, living at the beautiful site in Paonia, we were inspired by one fact: everything was made of recycled resources. With the encouragement of Dev, we set out to follow in […]
Sep 17, 2015
It’s day 4, our challenge today was to make it from our base camp to Paonia High School, home of the Eagles and only 220 students, without being seen by any person on foot or in car. We began by trekking through dry brush in the hills surrounding camp. It was beautiful with the valley […]
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 […]