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Ropes Course

When we went out to the ropes course at Southern Adventures I was pretty excited. I think I expected it to be a little different though. We started out by trying to get to know the other students in the class. I can honestly say that I didn’t know anyone in the classes names. I enjoyed the part where we got into small groups and gave two truths and a lie about ourselves. It helped me get to know some of the other students on more of a one on one basis.  I expected the ropes course part of the day to be more intense. I’m not really sure what I expected maybe something you might do in boot camp, more physical and not mental based. We went into the woods and stood on a log and had to choose an animal. Based on the animals size depended on where on the log you should be. We were supposed to somehow make it around the other people without falling off. Also we couldn’t talk. We had to express our animal through our body language and the noise the specific animal made; for example a lion rawrs. After a long time of working together and learning from our mistakes we finally figured out a way to get everyone in the correct position without messing up.
The last activity we did was a rope based blind fold course. We were blindfolded and lead to a spot on a rope. We had to follow the rope till the end. The catch was that we could ask two questions; “Can I get help?” and “Am I good?” The point is that its okay to ask for help even though you feel as if you can do it by yourself. Everyone needs help and that’s what working together is all about. I really enjoyed our trip to Southern Adventures, and I believe it should be continued in the future FYE classes. This experience will help me to be more social with my future classes.

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