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Nov 22, 2015
“With a budget of $200, makeover Dev’s look in a “business classy” fashion…aka cash money is king and make that man look fiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnneeee!” Lily and I made over Dev today from his normal farm life style into a classy business man. We spent over 3 hours in H&M working on finding clothes to fit him […]
Nov 22, 2015
Denver. The Big City. Home of the Broncos, and of the highest stadium (and population) in the US. It’s absolutely fascinating. We only have a week, but it’s been jammed full of activities and adventures so far. Our first three days here have been dedicated to a scavenger hunt of sorts. They weren’t items like […]
Nov 11, 2015
I have a horrible habit of picking really ambitious goals for my self designed challenges, and burning out around 2:30am. This sounds hilarious, but between the hours of 8pm and 2:30am last night I had 2 cups of coffee and 4 bowls of cereal. It seemed sane at the time. In Paonia, I did the […]
Nov 6, 2015
Self-designed challenges historically do not go smoothly. They typically have little to no oversight from staff, and give a strong sense of being stranded in the open ocean without a life vest. Historically, but not this time. Our group was efficient and our challenge divvied up equally, based on each persons’ strength. Not much could […]
Nov 3, 2015
For our introduction to our two day challenge, Blake Boles read us the poem The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein, in which a character goes to meet a wise guru. We were told that the following day we would go to meet him. We were emailed a packing list and told to have a belly full of breakfast by […]
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 23, 2015
When starting a business, knowing your skills and how to market yourself is the biggest key to success. When you have a service that fulfills a need within the market, great things happen. That’s exactly what occurred today. We were required to produce a profitable small business with a loan of $20, and five hours. […]
Oct 22, 2015
“HELLO! Welcome to Western Colorado State University! We are a small liberal arts college in Gunnison, and we would love to have you as a student next year!” Today, our group toured and challenged ourselves to integrate into Western State University. We had to complete challenges such as crashing a lecture, touring a dorm, talking […]