My first week in the field was an adventure to say the least! The kids out there run the gammut of crazy and cool and most of them are just plain teens. My first day and a half started off as a rollercoaster. First with an awesome game of hackysack, then into turmoil when the group basically refused to hike and work as a team... the consequence? Well, we ended up putting them on separates (no interaction but only 10 ft away from eachother) for 36 hours and ate di...

The training was absolutely amazing and emotional, I'm also happy to say that we're both been accepted to the program and will be starting right off the bat! So much has happened and has been realized, I'm not sure I should go into too much detail when describing what we went through... I'll try to keep it short: We were given the week to experience the desert through the eyes of a student. Our first 24 hours were spent in silence which was both meditative and a...