Welcome back to my third blog post about my third PLP trip of 2024!
Everyone wants to know what there future holds for them. Unfortunately our future is something that is just out of our control. We never know what could happen and change at any given moment. Even thought we never can know what could have , we do still have the ability to make choices in the present to shape our .
2 weeks ago my entire class gathered in loon lake. We were there on a journey to help teach ourselves and our class collectively how to be a team. We worked on collaboration, communication and trust throughout 5 days of activities. I got to create new bonds and friendship with people that I hadn’t spent much time around before, and strengthen my friendship with people I was already close with. I was skeptical about going on a trip with 50 other kids, in the middle of the forest with no wifi, I think being away from technology and access to internet helped our class stay focused on whatever out task at hand was.
Our time in loon lake was separated into two different sections. Half of the day was spent doing physical activities to push ourselves outside of our comfort zone, and the other half was spent in the pan abode with Johno.
I have always known that I have a fear of heights so when I was put on a rock climbing wall and wasn’t allowed back down until I rang the bell at the top, I knew I had to face new challenges that I didn’t want to. I made it to the top and actually became best friends with (who was the one belaying me) afterwards. But my biggest struggle was in the big trust fall. I had trust in my classmates to catch me but I struggled to trust myself to fall and land . And I really didn’t want to be dropped. But I did get dropped. But I’m glad that my classmates convinced me to go again and to have a better experience to look back on. Plus I got a pinky promise that I wasn’t going to be dropped again so I put a lot of trust into my classmates to not be dropped. I think these 2 activities were definitely the highlight of my time there because they prove how much I am able to put myself outside of my comfort zone by just trusting myself and having encouragement from my classmates.
This is me and a couple other friends being a bicycle ⬆️
I feel like those experiences can really tie into my goal from loon . I want to work on providing positivity and support to others because from what I learned about in loon lake was , you never know what’s happening in someone else’s life and you will never fully understand their experience. It’s more important to support someone and help them if they’re struggling then to give up on someone on the first try. I want to be the person who catches someone when they fall, rather than the person who drops you after you fall off a chair on a table into their arms with the hopes that they’ll actually catch you.
Johno spent the week teaching us how to also look after ourselves. A lot of the time we are our own biggest critic. Constantly thinking about how others perceive us and putting ourselves down is really damaging to your mental health and how you can go on to treat others. Your internal talk can change how you act towards yourself and how you act towards other. It’s important to have social awareness and to understand the situation that you’re in and how what you do or say could damage someone else.
I think coming out of this trip, that all my classmates have a new understanding of each other, and we know that we all have different experiences and lives outside of school. I definetly learnt a lot from loon lake and from Johno. And a special shoutout to Brandon, your literally my idol B-Fish. Go get Cara.