24 July 2010
Trip to the University of New Hampshire ropes course!
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This Tuesday, we journeyed to a ropes course for the day. Participant Noor Nashef wrote about her experience below:
On Tuesday, the 20th of July, we woke up at 7 am, ate breakfast, and headed out to New Hampshire. After an hour and a half on the bus, we arrived at the Browne Center, the ropes course where we were to spend the day. As we walked out to the field to meet the staff members, mosquitoes and other flying things swarmed us —some of us just couldn’t stand it! We all stood in a circle at first and filled out forms. That was super uncomfortable because we were sitting on the ground and moving around because of the bugs and using each others’ backs as a hard surface to write on.
After that, we played a game that everybody liked. It was a game that showed our counselors which of us would be the “participating kind of person” and the “non-participating kind of person.”
Playing a warm-up game at the Browne Center
After that we got divided into three groups: yellow, red, and blue. I was in the red one with a very cool counselor. After that, each group went to a different place to do activities. The activities were very cool — each one with its own point and idea, each one requiring deeper thought. In each game, all the people in the group had parts (that is, of course, if they all chose to participate).
Students and staff in the yellow group play a tightrope-walking game that teaches cooperation.
After doing the activities and having a break in the middle of the day for lunch, we went to the ropes and tree climbing courses. Some people really enjoyed this, and some of us sat on the side cheering for the ones climbing …and making fun of them good-naturedly.
New Hampshire is stunning. We had nice views from the bus. As we rode along, we were surprised to find out that our dinner was pizza…and very tasty pizza at that! After that we were almost satisfied but not quite. Then we went to Walmart and got completely satisfied. We all got back on the bus with a great feeling of a day that will be remembered! On the ride back to the dorms, we all had some time to think about the day, and we realized that the whole day had been designed to get the members of Artsbridge to come together and learn how to work as a team, think as a team, and meet new people and make new friends in the program…so it was a great day overall! The day ended with all of us falling asleep at the evening meeting, and then really falling into a deep sleep when we got back to our rooms at night.
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