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Oct 14, 2015
My emotions are like the rise and fall of waves as I set out to describe my journey through a self directed challenge. I take into consideration my passion and goal. I am passionate about community and family. I want to create a supportive group that is inclusive and acknowledges all people. I want to […]
Oct 14, 2015
Early this Sunday morning, I jerked awake because of an idea. I quickly grabbed my sketchbook and started drawing a story. This little comic strip became the foundation for my individual challenge this week. I decided to create a video about having scoliosis. My goal was to create and post the video on YouTube. In […]
Oct 14, 2015
For the last 24 hours my challenge was to secretly take a picture of everybody at the UA semester. I started off by putting on camouflage using mud, ash, and charcoal. And then I headed off to the tech barn to look for some specimens to begin the project It was very difficult to get close enough to […]
Oct 14, 2015
This week we had to do individual challenges. This means coming up with your own challenge not super hard that would take serval days and not super easy you could have it all done in a hour. I decided to do something with food my challenge was to make 4 loafs of bread And have […]
Oct 14, 2015
I’m Popcorn, and this is Week 5 of the UA Adventure Semester, as well as our last week in Paonia, CO! This week, we all came up with self-designed challenges, and in two days, completed them on our own. I chose to write a song on my ukulele, and make a music video for it. […]
Oct 14, 2015
Wherefore in center of the storm, while all ‘round Oak trees bent and tore from ancient roots; Where wind is whipped into a frothy thing, As unalike to air as stone to skin and blood to milk; Where Men and Women are as mice and rats, Who scurry from the light or in the […]
Oct 14, 2015
“Wherefore, in lieu of better challenge; Would an adventure semester student Set out to write an epic poem. With the Knowledge that he writes poorly under Time pressure; which was apparent in This case; He scraped by with a few minutes To go, and writes now again in poetic form (Although without much effort he’ll […]
Oct 14, 2015
For my personal challenge I wrote a college essay with the prompt “Tell us about an event in your life that is particularly meaning for you and why it is important to you” and after many drafts, and edits from staff members, I did just that. It was great to spend time doing something that I had […]
Oct 14, 2015
How many chord progressions can one person scrap before settling down with one? That was the key question of my individual challenge. I chose to write and record a song, along with writing an accompanying short story based on the song. To make things quick, let’s just say I bit off more than I could […]
Oct 14, 2015
For the past two days me and all of my fellow adventurers have been working on challenges that are not only self-designed, but also challenges that must be designed and completed by each individual independently. I had thrown around a few ideas, including fasting and refraining from speaking for a day, but was encouraged […]