"A lot of the things I did during adventure week I was already very familiar with, like rock climbing, snowshoeing, and bowling. But the thing that pushed me very far out of my comfort zone was undoubtedly having to play a song in front of the adventure groups. When I was at Boise Rock School, we had an hour to practice a song of our choosing, then had to play it in front of a lot of peers. Only having an hour to practice freaked me out, and didn’t seem like nearly enough time. Not to mention, I go to BRS for guitar class, and my band teacher was watching. But, we did it (and did the best, might I add ;) ). It wasn’t as bad as I had expected, and I actually wanted to do another song afterwards. 

I think that being pushed out of your comfort zone is a very important part of adventure. If you never leave your comfort zone, you can never discover things you potentially love. For instance, guitar. About a year ago, I wanted to learn an instrument. But I was so intimidated by the idea of playing guitar and the fear of messing up that I put off trying for a long time. Then, my parents got me a guitar for my birthday, and I went to BRS for lessons. I was scared at first, but now I love it. I think that the experience of playing in front of my peers was a very helpful experience for me, because it helped to prepare me for bigger performances in the future." - Merit 8th Grade 

"This amazing and eventful adventure week was a great experience no matter what we did. I thoroughly enjoy the certain aspects that adventure week has to offer. Something that I look forward to every time that I have done adventure week is the new schedule every week, that makes it interesting for me. I know that I will never have adventure week like Anser does again (unless I end up teaching here) but I will vividly remember the both that I did. I got closer to friends, teachers and staff, but most of all I got closer to myself and what I like doing while also figuring out what I dislike doing.

In addition to that, something that I enjoyed doing but challenged me was snowshoeing. Snowshoeing is something that I have never attempted before nor have I heard of that it was something that people do for fun. I didn’t know what to expect but I did it anyway,  it was hard but I persevered. I was scared that people would think that I'm a slow walker (especially on snowshoes) so at first I went to the back of the line and also fell a few times at first so I’m glad I did that. Then after, I got into a situation where I needed to take the front of the line or it would clog up so I ended up doing so. I really tried my best to stay behind the leader as close as I could so I wouldn’t hold my group up. When I ended up at the front it was actually uphill most of the time so it tired me out but I kept going. Then we got to belly slide, go into an igloo, and play “predator and prey” so the snowshoeing paid off and I would do it again." - Lucia 8th Grade 

Click on the picture below for a 60 second recap of the 7th and 8th graders week!