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Nov 22, 2015
Today Oscar’s and my challenge was to set up a complaint table outside, then to have people write down their complaint. Later on, we were to make a creative writing piece about it and send it to them. However, it was clear from the beginning that each of us had complaints of our own. I felt […]
Nov 22, 2015
Solo living in a big city is not as scary as it sounds. Of course, there are going to be scary situations, as we experienced these past three days, but once you get your bearings and understand how to react, things get easy. These past few days, we were given the challenge of creating a […]
Nov 12, 2015
Future Looming all around you Unsure Of what to do So, you know what I did? I planned I emailed I worked I will hopefully be taking sign language classes I will soon be wilderness first aid certified I might help out a park ranger I know I might work at a marine biology camp […]
Nov 4, 2015
Food isn’t something most people think about. A lot of us wouldn’t consider ourselves to have a “relationship” with food, and many of us seem to ignore the value of it. We buy it, occasionally cook it, usually eat it. Usually? Yes, usually. Turns out, anywhere between a quarter and a third of the total […]
Nov 3, 2015
“People are fed by the Food industry, which pa ys no attention to Health, and are treated by the Health industry, which pays no attention to Food.” – Wendell Berry I feel that food is such a great subject for conversation because everyone can relate. Each and every individual has a journey with food and a story to tell. This is my […]
Oct 30, 2015
Today my group was with Joel, doing his first non-food challenge. It was the perseverance challenge. The idea of the challenge was to push ourselves to learn a new skill that we didn’t know before. Joel was assigned by us to practice makeup, and we helped our fellow group members decide what they wanted to […]
Oct 29, 2015
Hello, My name is Katie, I am seventeen and requesting an endorsement from you for my website that I developed with Blake Boles during Week 2 of the Adventure Semester. This would be very helpful for me to help legitimatize my website as I send it to future employers, and as I apply to more programs […]
Oct 26, 2015
Our challenge today was to be vulnerable. We opened ourselves to the (sometimes tough) feedback from our group under the facilitation of Ari and Marian. Most of us felt a fairly strong sense of panic over the idea of this challenge, as we heard rumor of it throughout the weekend, but when it came time […]
Oct 22, 2015
Well, this blog is different than the ones I’ve previously written. The difference is the fact that I’m standing in the middle of a restaurant with my guitar, writing this blog on my phone. Our group’s challenge today was to come up with a one-day business, and make as much money as possible. We decided […]
Oct 22, 2015
Today our challenge was to go to Western State Colorado University and to tap into the resources that a 4 year university has. We started off trying to talk to 5 or more students. Asking them genuine questions about life in college. As a group and as individuals we had great success starting conversations with […]