Outdoor Pursuit Journal: October 2013

You know what I'm not exactly a fan of? Biking. It's not that I don't like the idea of a green source of transportation, it's just that I don't like biking. I can walk all around the world, if that is any cancellation. I know all the signals, and when to do certain signals. I would say I am good at it as well. Not to toot my own horn, but toot toot! I am scared I will turn out like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86RVA6gkUDY (Mr.Heasman, you best copy and paste that!)
not get anywhere and BAM! Fall!
I know it won't happen, but, it is a constant fear in my head. I am very thankful for having a whole lesson in CELP around this. Today we went to Riverside Park and back. WOW! It wasn't a long ride, but it felt like it. I may be a little out of shape. Oh well..... :C
The route was this:
http://goo.gl/maps/2a0Jk (copy and paste this too!)
I was in front of Parker and behind Kyle. There was this awesome man and he had so many awesome stories to tell! That about sums it up!

Trust. In Outdoor Pursuits we had to trust people both physically and mentally. When we trust someone physically, we trust them to get a job done proper, or to catch us when we fall during our trust games. When we trust someone mentally, we hope that they don't share information with others that you shared with that person. Trust is an important in any relationship. Between parent and offspring, lovers, and friends. To show you how big it is I found this quite-

""I TRUST YOU" is a Better Compliment than "I LOVE YOU" because YOU may NOT always Trust the person YOU Love, but YOU can always Love the person whom YOU Trust...."

- Unknown

This quote shows you how you always love the people you trust, because you feel comfortable with them, meanwhile, you can fall for someone who you don't know enough to trust.

In outdoor education we have to learn to trust our class mates. We did similar activities as I did in CELP. But, in CELP we focused on trusting each other more, or maybe less....

In CELP we had to be quiet when the person fell off the log and into the classmates arms. In Outdoor Pursuit, we were talking, and yelling. I feel that if I did that in front of Mr. Barr (CELP teacher) we would get in a tone of trouble. But maybe we were able to talk to each other while the person fell is because we trusted they were paying attention. Huh. There were other times during our trust activities where there was little guidence, and someone could have gotten hurt. Such as, at one time we tried to flip someone, in my case Scott. We were in groups of about six, and with out dropping the person we had to flip them. We dropped Scott a billion times. A few on his head. That explains so much! HAHA!

I feel that all the trust activities we did were and still are important. I wouldn't change any of the activities. When I would change is the fact that we go to pick our own groups, since we already probably trust the people we had in our group, it is kind or redundant to do a trust exercise. Also, I feel that if people were quiet and paying more attention during activities, people who aren't normally willing to participate, would be, since the environment is calmer.