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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 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 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 10, 2015
Science is not about the answer. Science is about thinking differently and asking questions no one has ever asked before. Write down what you find and come up with better questions. Today our group wrote a scientific paper on lichen and moss growth in increasing elevations. We also measured tree variety. This was also an […]
Oct 7, 2015
It was a cold morning, one of the coldest so far, I think. We knew from the night before what roughly our challenge today would be: to teach people with three different disabilities (blind, deaf, and using only their non-dominate hand) a new skill or technique. We learned the next morning that we would be […]
Oct 6, 2015
Today the magnificent Blake Boles taught us how to make a website using wordpress. A place on the internet that belongs to me, where I can share my adventures and hobbies. This is my favorite challenge so far. I can look back at what I have done and feel a sense of accomplishment. This pushes […]
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, […]
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 25, 2015
Hey there! So today we had a really cool challenge.. we had to choose and embody a character completely opposite to our usual selfs. We started out at a thrift shop picking out clothing for our character (I chose somebody shy and slightly gothic.. a complete transformation for me with my usual enthusiastic colorful way […]
Sep 24, 2015
A month or so ago I shaved my head. Little did I know, it would become one of our challenges. My Britney Spears moment became something of a trend, and I had a lot of fun shaving my friends heads in the middle of a field, surrounded by squawking turkeys. Our challenge was this: look […]