Lessons Learned with Fire and Water

So we just came back from the Almagor river trip and we learned a great new deal about ourselves. From fire building to rafting to being with our friends, it was a blast.

First off the fire building – it was a real challenge. We worked hard together to find wood to fuel our fire that we were to build. After we got the wood, we put it in a tee pee fire building style. We tried to light a fire, but it didn’t work, so we had to add oxygen. We took a Frisbee and flapped it close to the fire to light the embers. After we got the fire going, we had to add bigger sticks and more oxygen until we had a good fire.

While we were rafting, we learned that leadership and teamwork are a big part of accomplishing goals in life. We started out not knowing the people on our raft and it seemed strange at first, without our friends. But soon after we started talking with each other, we learned more about one another. Getting to know each other better made us a much better raft team, and accomplishing the challenge of paddling through rough waters became an easy task.

Finally, just being with our friends was one of the best things on the river trip (and at camp!) We didn’t just hang out with our friends from our cabin…we got to know all of our unit, and we are now stronger because of it.

Overall, building fires, rafting, and making new friends has made use a better Almagor which will make us have an even better summer.

-Alec Davison, Corey Fox, Matt Frischer.