Narrative Essay On Outward Bound

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There have been many trying moments in my life but the most the event that marked my transition from boyhood to adulthood was when I travelled to Oregon. It was the summer after my freshman year of high school and I had signed up for Outward Bound. I had been looking forward to the program all summer. It consisted of one week of white water rafting and one week of backpacking. I left home in early August from JFK airport and landed in Los Angeles International airport, without a phone or any money. Eventually after a layover that seemed to last forever boarded my flight to Oregon. When I arrived I was greeted by two councilors and many anxious teenagers, who had made the same trip. We were all loaded into a bus and driven upstate, there we …show more content…
Its a character building experience, you learn camaraderie, communication, conflict resolution leadership, and so much more. Camaraderie and communication was needed during my journey. I can remember a time when there was a tree that had fallen over was stuck on a rock and jutting out into the river. If we had not communicated and moved quickly we would have lost our raft and been in danger. Ten teenagers from all over the country spending sixteen days with each other after couple days there is bound to be some conflict, one guy I became with, Spencer, got into a fight with a different guy, Mike. The councilors told us to resolve it ourselves in a nonviolent and civilized manor, we held a hearing and elected an unbiased arbitrator to decide how to handle the situation, and in the end the conflict was resolved and we had no other serious problems. Me and my peers were given a tremendous amount of responsibility and leadership opportunities, whether it was skippering the raft, deciding where to stop for the night, holding the map and plotting our course.
Week two started off with a three hour bus ride about 30 miles from the base of the Middle Sister of Cascade Mountains. We started off slowly but after a few days we were already there. We woke up at 3AM and started out trek, we walked all the way up to the peak and enjoyed the view as the sun rose in the east. As me and three of my now good friends
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