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Sep 22, 2015
Today our challenge was to cut each other’s hair and do some internal/external makeovers. Before we even began Jack decided to shave his legs, which ended in the lovely discovery of mild ringworm. Whoops. Our first task was to find out hair cutting techniques and brainstorm about it because no one had much haircutting experience […]
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 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 […]
Sep 15, 2015
On our first day, we danced. It was indeed challenging, but not until today did our group of five truly experience the meaning of the Adventure Semester. Our challenge was to walk into the town of Paonia from our mountain camp (and back) without being seen by anyone. When we began, our groups’ dynamics were […]