Saturday, October 11, 2008

Haliburton 2008 is now in the books.

Each year we take all of the kids from Grade 7 and up to a week long retreat in the Haliburton Forest Reserve where we undertake trust building and leadership activities as well as rock climbing and high ropes activities.

As has been the case for several years now, the experience was wonderful. It is very enlightening to see the students under non-academic conditions. Additionally we are able to understand their fears and desires through the reflective portion of the program. Every night we spend about two hours as a group talking about our goals in life and how well we are doing in achieving them.

Now - poor HBB is trying to recover from a severe lack of sleep as well as a blistered foot from pouring boiling water on myself while draining potatoes. This week there was a certain karma element with respect to HBB and water. It's a long story involving tipping instructors out of a canoe but HBB certainly experienced karma while in Haliburton.

I leave you with THE iconic picture of Haliburton - less the floating dock which was missing this year.