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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 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 you may or may not have noticed, the blog post from Wednesday’s fire challenge was not completed or uploaded to the Unschool Adventures website. So, if you were wondering about that, here is where I explain. Well first off, we did not complete our challenge of creating a fire without a lighter or matches […]
Oct 20, 2015
College: indeed a loaded subject for many unschoolers. Today our challenge was to navigate the Western Colorado State College campus as prospective students. A scavenger-hunt-esque challenge, minus the points and competition, plus real world skills. Some of the items on our list were to talk to an admissions officer about the requirements of applying as […]
Oct 14, 2015
In a hole, in the ground, there lived… Failure. Yes folks I failed. I failed in the sense that I did not complete the challenge that I set for myself. But I did come away with a few different lessons, and the aspiration to record a little more of The Hobbit audiobook every weekend for […]
Oct 9, 2015
On the fourth day of the fourth week of the U.A. Adventure Semester, my group was challenged to create, execute, and finalize a scientific experiment. In the beginning, we were faced with the decision of whether we wanted to do a psychologic experiment or a biological experiment. It was split down the middle, and on […]
Oct 7, 2015
Today, our challenge was to create and film a exercise regime. We decided to create our fitness video for peers and staffers right here at the High Desert Center in Paonia, Colorado! We started out with some basic safety, like remembering water and staying protected from the elements, be them rain, snow, or sun. Then […]
Oct 6, 2015
This is day 2, week 4 of the UA Adventure Semester. My group’s challenge today was to teach the rest of our group how to recognize one type of native plant, with a catch – half the group we were teaching would be blindfolded, and half would be blocking out sound with music. The goal […]