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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
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 12, 2015
A couple months back, when I was at Not Back to School Camp, Dev told a story. The preface for the story was this: one time, he and a friend of his walked out the front door with $20 and a backpack, then spent three months hitchhiking around the country, using nothing but their own wits. […]
Nov 7, 2015
Pounding, pounding, pounding at your chest, the Particolor glimmer rises and falls; Time; Cold steel, cold snow, one two three one two three We built here.
Nov 3, 2015
The group for this 2-day challenge was small, with only me (Jack), Midge, and Oscar, or as Addison called us: The Dream Team. Before Addison told us our specific challenge, he told us the reason behind it: simplicity. A simple, yet difficult problem, with a not-so-simple solution. Our challenge? Move a 5,000 pound rock 5 feet. […]
Oct 29, 2015
In the immortal words of Midge Field, “I had heard the word lit before, but I never truly understood the meaning of it.” Today we learned. We began our challenge the night before when we sat down with Ari in The Spare Oom to discuss the trials and tribulations that we would face the next […]
Oct 28, 2015
Today six unschoolers completed six different challenges, with one unifying goal: to learn to persevere. Each of these challenges was narrow in scope enough to stress repetition, yet much variety existed. Some challenge involved a repetition of simple task. Oscar focused on learning how to juggle, a skill he found quite difficult to master. Max […]
Oct 26, 2015
Hello Reader, My name is Catherine Canann. I am a participant in the U.A. Adventure Semester. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. As you know, every day we have a unique challenge. Today, that challenge was to write emails to strangers in Denver who we would like to connect with, […]
Oct 23, 2015
As has been noted in previous blog posts and videos, our group this week has been experiencing some communication problems. We’ve all been hearing about Dev’s challenge, and we knew that this one would help us with communication skills. In fact, the challenge today did exactly that. In the morning we met up and took […]
Oct 22, 2015
Ever since some pal a few hundred thousand years ago first rubbed a couple sticks together, perhaps as some kind of sexual or religious act, and discovered that that makes them explode, humankind’s relationship with fire has been… tentative. The same fire which the busker juggles for his living also inevitably burns down his apartment. […]