Norval

Yesterday, the whole middle school went to a place called Norval to do team building. We were put into teams and we had to work as a team. We had to walk on wires and it was hard, but fun. We had a bit of trouble, but then we got this idea to do a human chain. At first, it didn't work, but then we got an extra person and it worked. Our team had a couple arguments. We were yelling at each other a lot and we were always trying to tell the team our idea, but then we would all be yelling at each other to shut up so we could say our idea. I think we could have listened to others more than just thinking about what WE wanted to say.  

We had trouble on this one activity where we had to get a tire off a high pole. We tried EVERYTHING we could think of. We even tried lifting Jenny up the pole, and we nearly got it. After that, we tried making stairs so Jenny and Blayne could climb up. Michael had only a bit of Blayne on him, and Jake had Jenny and the other part of Blayne. Jake wasn't complaining, and he had a lot of weight on him, and Michael barely had any, and Michael was like "The pain! Ow! Get off! It hurts!" It was really funny. 

I really had a lot of fun. I also liked the drum circle. I learned a lot and we even didn't even have to do schoolwork! But we still learned important stuff. Some people didn't even want to learn, but that was the reason we were there. I hope we go there again next year!