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Oct 7, 2015
I stand on the rocky hillside. I have a perfect view out over the valley and the huge, stretching fields of Paonia. Mount Lamborn stands proud and tall in front of me, the white lamb-shaped mark for which it was named shining in the sun, my view unobstructed by any trees. Twenty-five years ago this […]
Oct 6, 2015
Ladies and gentleman! Have you been craving a good workout? Looking to shed those extra pounds? Boy, do we have the thing for you! It’s day week four day one of the adventure semester, and our challenge was to plan and execute a thirty minute long exercise video. Being the first group to experience this […]
Oct 5, 2015
Have you ever been asked that God-awful question “would you rather be blind or deaf?” Well today we experienced both, along with losing the use of our dominate hand. No, our challenge on day one of week four of the Adventure Semester was not to cripple each other; but to be able to teach a […]
Oct 3, 2015
Max Abeywakaflocka, Sage Ryan , and Katie Mitchell decided to bless 20 homeschoolers with something they would never experience in their lives: Prom. They all starred in a well remarked show called Crazy Since the 80s. A show about 4 crazy roommates in the most glamorous city: New York. It shows them living, working and […]
Sep 30, 2015
Our group (Joey, Macayla, Katie B., and Myself) did 2-day Adventure Challenges this week. This was our first 2-day challenge and it was a Theater challenge. Essentially our task at hand was to prepare and perform a theatrical performance during dinner on Tuesday, a dinner-theater type of event that would feature all of the Adventurers […]
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 […]
Sep 23, 2015
5am wake ups usually mean a flight or a crying baby. Today, it meant the start to a 6 hour meditation in the woods. The evening before we embarked on our journey, we got together and discussed the terms of the challenge. Our group decided we wanted to fast for the 6 hours, and we […]
Sep 19, 2015
Today our group finally experienced the long awaited dancing challenge! Last night, Tabi, our mentor, told us that we would have to choose our dance song within an hour. If we failed, we would have to dance to M.C. Hammer’s 2 Legit 2 Quit. But since our group, over the past week, has developed into […]
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 […]