I was waiting to blog about this until I was sure it was going to happen, and I got the official notification of acceptance into the program—along with a partial scholarship—this morning.
I'm officially a part of the Adventure Leadership Program's Vista section. ALP is a youth program sponsored by Wilderness Inquiry, and environmental group based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. My mom heard about it from a coworker and when she looked it up, she suggested it to me. I was fascinated immediately, and she told me she would register me. We did—and it became official today!
I'm incredibly psyched for this. The kick-off meeting is on the 29th, and my first trip is to the Mississippi River headwaters and Lake Itasca at the end of June. There are six other trips total, ranging from three to eight days (most of them are about 5 days), and spanning from June through February. I get to go canoeing, kayaking, hiking, snowshoeing, dog-sledding, cross-country skiing, and all sorts of other stuff. I can hardly wait for it to start!
Agh, I'm so incredibly excited! I've always loved camping and being outdoors. The camp I went to when I was younger was a Girl Scout Camp, but incredibly basic and rustic. My family and I used to go camping a lot—the Catskill Mountains are great places for camping. After I moved to Minnesota, I didn't get much of a chance to go camping anywhere. My mom, brother, and I went once with another family, but the campsite was hardly very woodsy. The only thing I could say was actual camping was my five-day trip between eighth grade and freshman year, called Operation Adventure. And that was a long time ago now!
Anyway. I hope to go, learn a million new things, and take a thousand thousand pictures.
What's something you're excited for or looking forward to?
1 comments:
that sounds so exciting and awesome! you must take lots of photos and tell me all about it! <3
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