The next day, I went with Jessica and her
ward to badger creek. We did four activities. I think that the first was a
little ridiculous. We had to swing with a rope to a two foot square "raft
because we were being attacked by pirates." Another thing that made it
ridiculous is that we could not talk to each other because we did not want to
get the attention of the pirates. We had to fit as many of our group as we can
on the two foot square "raft". I thought that it was weird how the
girls had a very hard time swinging. It is like they don't understand physics.
They could barely hold themselves on the rope and get enough momentum to get to
the raft. People thought that this was a leadership game, but the not talking
rule made it lame; plus, additional rules were given limiting the suggestions
that were given. A girl suggested that we do a big doggy pile. Another
suggested that people sit on each other's shoulders, but both of them were shot
down. The situation was too ridiculous for me to care. If we were attacked by
pirates, we would not try to fit twenty-one people on a two foot square raft.
We did do it; although, I saw one person with only one foot on the raft, which
should have obligated us to restart. It was more of a trial and error unifying
than a leadership and communication practice. Someone tried to lead the people
as if she figured out how to fit everyone on the raft; however, the people did
not follow her instructions well. There was a knot high in the rope, and I
thought that it would be fun to swing two people over to the raft as once. The
other activities were more logical and challenging. I think that it is weird
that I only want to write about the ridiculous activity because all the other
ones were logical. We did rock climbing, a gigantic swing like thirty feet
tall, zip lining, and slacklining. I fell off the wall a couple times, when I
rock climbed. There was a safety system, so I did not fall far. I felt
out-of-it after being in the sun for so long, and did not care to do the swing.
Badger Creek is interesting. It fulfills its role in the school well.
I dedicate this to Trevor Hicken, my brother, who I hope will be writing for you soon. He is a technology wizard. A3 Ultra-slim 14.0" LCD Screen 1366x768 Windows 7 Intel D2500 + NM10 Dual Core 1.86GHz 1GB RAM Laptop Computer with Wi-Fi (160GB HD) (Silver) From Focalprice A Completely Lousy Chinese Product I bought this laptop for my brother, expecting that it would run according to it's specs, but it didn't. The version of Windows 7 was many years old, making it very slow. It would have taken forever for my brother to update it, so he put Linux on it. When he did that, he found that the laptop would not hold the operating systems. He would have to install the software over and over. He found an operating system that seems to be holding, which works okay; however, the battery only lasts about 40 minutes now, since he accidentally let it die. It is basically a laptop from the nineties.
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