Camping Trip

What an experience this was! I don't think I have ever put my body through something like that before. I feel that before we left we should of had a session where we were taught ways to sleep and be with the conditions that we had. This would have better prepared me, and I would have packed more clothes and things to keep me warm. I really enjoyed the tips that Lori shared with us on Saturday as it helped a bit that night. I really enjoyed learning about what she does. It re inscribed my learning knowing that there are programs out there that take kids outside and teach them about the outdoors. I think hat it would have been amazing to have Lori do more things with us ( would have been amazing if she did the whole weekend).That is the way life goes, and I enjoyed learning from her.
One of the most beneficial experiences that I had was going to the Green Ranch and working. It was nice to help Tim out especially knowing that he does most of the gardening himself. It was also a good way to warm up. It was also great to listen to Tim's story after supper on Saturday. It made me even more grateful that I worked on the farm, as I had no idea that he supplied restaurants with food.
I really liked that the focus of the weekend was food sovereignty as it related a lot to my groups action project around food consumerism. I do wish that we would have been more involved in the choices that were made. I think that maybe the weekend would have been cheaper and not as much food would have been wasted. It is just hard having to pay extra for classes that you don't except at the beginning of the semester. Maybe being given marks for going would have been awesome to as many of us had to change our plans and sacrifice things to go.
Flying wild was really great and gave everyone a chance to relax and forget about being cold. It was awesome to plan to an activity and actually laugh while doing it. By that time everyone was over tired so everything was funny. I wish there would have been more free time, it was like everything was jam packed and every moment was planned for. I would have loved some time to myself and time to student and do homework seeing this is a busy time of the year for university students.
Don't get me wrong I had a great time I just wish somethings would have been done differently. It did not help that midterms and assignments are due and instead of doing that we were camping. Made it hard to have fun as I was stressing. There were things that disrupted and re inscribed my learning. I came away with things that I would and wouldn't do if I took students camping.