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It took 4 buses to get us all up to Wolf Ridge, we had to be at the Middle School by 6:30 am. It was a good 4 hour trip up. Really nice coach buses and they showed a movie on the way up. I didn't watch because I was memorizing a lesson plan. I had to teach a class on paper making that evening. When we got there, our group of 13 kids and 7 adults had the first KP duty. Served the trays, then took in the dirty ones and sent them through the dishwasher, scrubbed the pans. The food was hot dogs cut up and fried/boiled with vegies served on a bun. Really didn't get any better in the following days.
That afternoon we had a class on basic survival. We talked about what it takes to survive and then broke down into groups of three or four, went out with a tarp and 10 matches to build a shelter big enough for everyone in the group and a fire to heat snow and make hot chocolate. Madi's group did great, probably better than my group of 3 adults (no mixing adults and kids in these groups).
One of the kids, Tr., was a little unprepared. The mittens and hat he brought weren't warm enough, he needed extra socks and his snowsuit was ripped and falling apart. Kid was so cold I escorted him back as soon as the group was done rather than wait around for the whole party to congregate and put the fire pans back on the rack. The teachers found him some better gear and he really roared back on day 2.
That evening I taught my papermaking class. This involved using mix-masters to make pulp and I was very careful to explain that if they forgot and left the cap off we would be scrapping the goop off the cieling. After that we had a naturalist show us a chicken, a horned owl and a bard owl. The owls had been rescued by the U of Mn Raptor Center and were not able to make it in the wild due to bad eyesight.
That afternoon we had a class on basic survival. We talked about what it takes to survive and then broke down into groups of three or four, went out with a tarp and 10 matches to build a shelter big enough for everyone in the group and a fire to heat snow and make hot chocolate. Madi's group did great, probably better than my group of 3 adults (no mixing adults and kids in these groups).
One of the kids, Tr., was a little unprepared. The mittens and hat he brought weren't warm enough, he needed extra socks and his snowsuit was ripped and falling apart. Kid was so cold I escorted him back as soon as the group was done rather than wait around for the whole party to congregate and put the fire pans back on the rack. The teachers found him some better gear and he really roared back on day 2.
That evening I taught my papermaking class. This involved using mix-masters to make pulp and I was very careful to explain that if they forgot and left the cap off we would be scrapping the goop off the cieling. After that we had a naturalist show us a chicken, a horned owl and a bard owl. The owls had been rescued by the U of Mn Raptor Center and were not able to make it in the wild due to bad eyesight.