The Woods

My room

I got back from my class trip to the woods in Hedgesville, WV a couple hours ago.  It was a lot of fun.  Basically the woods is an off-site activity kind of like a company retreat.  We worked with a company on various activities to form teams and accomplish specific tasks designed to create unity and teach us valuable lessons about ourselves and the dynamics of teamwork.
Yesterday morning, we met at FSI and took a couple buses to the West Virginia.  Upon arrival, we quickly got our room keys, dropped off our bags and assembled for the beginning of the team building exercises.  We were split up into teams.

The woods were right out my back door

Throughout the day we had various activities that were designed to help us learn to communicate and work as a team.  Some of them were more challenging then others, but they all had specific and valuable lessons to learn, which is why, I suppose, that we were doing them.
That night we had our class's Follies.  I was on the Follies committee and had a couple parts in the show.  It was really funny (I gauge this not by my own measure, but by the laughter from the audience).  I was in a couple comedic skits, and then danced/sang in another.
After the Follies, there was much drinking and karaoke.  I joined in the karaoke, of course, and was up until after 1am.

The Torch of Knowledge

This morning we had our final activities.  All the activities for the final day were designed to help us work together to achieve larger goals.  In fact, the final mission (grand finale, if you will) brought all of our groups together, working to accomplish a single goal.  That was intense.  It was great.  Not only did we succeed (our prize was the Torch of Knowledge as shown here), but they told us that we didn't make any errors in the task.  Apparently, this hasn't happened in about two years.  We felt pretty amazing when they told us that.  But we only did that because all of us worked together.  If even one person had made a mistake, it would have affected the entire group.
After the final activity we got on the buses and headed home.  It was an intense couple of days, but I think it really helped us to grow together as an A-100 class.