Class is over Spring break is officially beginning

I just woke up, I’m late to my meeting, I’m walking the wrong way.

I’m about to meet everyone, I feel really bad because my alarm didn’t go off

Up, there they are

Good morning!

I’m really excited for Death Valley because its going to be my first time actually camping

out in a tent.

I’m from Los Angeles, I grew up in the city. I haven’t spent any time in the wilderness

[rock music]

Sweet… this is awesome!

Alright, you’re good Thank you, learn from the best.

High five Look at that

Every time

We hiked up this beautiful like canyon looking mountain

I was afraid of being humiliated because I wasn’t sure if I could actually climb them,

but the team definitely encouraged me. When you have that positive energy next to you

with people who aren’t afraid, you don’t feel afraid.

That was so inspiring, because I don’t think I fully grasped how able I was to conquer…

that feeling of thinking I can’t do something.

Whooooooooo!

That was probably one of the best hikes I’ve been on in my whole life

It doesn’t matter how good you are or how far you get, it really doesn’t. What matters

is that you pass that fear and you don’t let it freeze you, you don’t let it stop

you from doing what you want.

Death Valley has been my week of firsts. First time setting up a tent, first time camping.

It was my first time eating food from like a little can of fire, I can’t remember the

like proper term for it. I’m just going to call it can of fire.

First time seeing the sky blanketed, literally blanketed by stars. I looked up and there

was like different dimensions of stars. I was like, oh my god, what!!

We did a journal entry yesterday. We had to write about our impressions of Death Valley

and then how they changed. I felt like Death Valley like one of those

people who are really like closed off and don’t really talk to people, and then when

you get to know them they just show you their inner beauty. I feel like that’s Death Valley.

When you’re driving past it, you’re just a desert, nothing there, then you get inside

of it, doesn’t even look like a desert anymore. Its not just dull and boring, it comes to

life.

Jacob, you have to join the fun…

Go!

It’s a tie!

We’ve had nothing but fun, I think just living together in the desert with minimal

resources, it builds relationships, and I feel like once you spend this much time with

people, you take that with you.

I don’t know if the desert has changed me, I just know that today felt completely different

in a good way.

[footsteps]