Imagine you’re hanging for dear life on a tight thin wire. Your hands have blisters. You try holding on but then you fall. At the Bedfords Ropes Course, I experienced just that.  It was painful but also so fun that sometimes I didn’t even feel it. We got to go on five really fun challenges. Well one of them was not that fun in my opinion.

Out of all the 5 courses the rope swing was my favorite. The rope swing is when a rope is in the middle, and someone, which was me, had to jump and get the rope. Honestly, when I was going to jump I thought to myself I am probably not going to make it but I will try anyway. But I actually got it. I swung back and one after another our group went. We got really close to getting everyone but we ran out of time. You would swing back then you would try to get everyone on the platform, which was around six, seven feet. My second favorite challenge was the “Indiana Jones” challenge. It is when you go on a balance beam and when you get through that you go on a tree. Off that tree you go on a wire and crawl or walk across. I remember when I was on the wires I fell and I was hanging upside down and holding on for dear life. I thought to myself I know I’m not getting out of it. When I was hanging upside down I heard someone say “holy look at him”. After that I fell. Well after I got past that I went to the swings, which is harder than it looks. When you are on the last swing you jump off the swing and land on a balance beam. My third favorite is “Lava Island”. It is when you use a wooden plank to get from platform to platform. You need to use weight so someone can get across. It was a lot of fun and we actually got everyone to the last platform. We got there because everyone would come up with ideas and we would group together. Someone said “We need more weight”. I have to admit we did need more weight. But we ended up getting to the end by trial and error. Over all these challenges were fun and challenging.

I learned a lot about myself, my teammates and also teamwork. From this field trip. I found out I was someone who would make the ideas and my teammates would make it better and easier for us to do. One time I said “how about we make a human chain so we can get the rope”. Well that was an okay idea. So Andrew said “how about you jump to get the rope. I thought that It is probably not going to work but I will try anyway. I was surprised when It worked so we got the rope and we swung one by one we swung to the other side. I would make the ideas because I would come up with a base idea which is good. But my teammates would make it even better.

I learned that my classmates were better than I was expecting and everyone was actually trying in my group. Everyone was trying because our group was really in to accomplishing the goal. Also we were really determined to make it to the end. 

Our group did so well because we figured out the key. We found out that “there is no I in team”. We also came up with ideas and were open to others. We grouped them together to get a really good idea. I learned that you can’t do everything by yourself.

I learned from this experience that sometimes you can do stuff by yourself but only sometimes you mostly get help. When I was there I noticed I could do it all. But we needed the whole team there too. So we had to come up with a strategy to get everyone to the end. Have you ever done something that you needed help 

on, or have you ever helped somebody that needed help?