I canoe, can you

Wow.  So much in my life has changed since the last post.  I have been married for going on 2 years, which means I have been with Michael for two and a half years.  I re-read some of my older posts and I laugh quite a bit.  I evidently used to have very much to say.  

This weekend Michael and I spent some time with some middle school students from the Champaign area.  He taught them archery, while I did team building.  Then we took them canoeing.  Some of these kids had never really ventured far from their neighborhood.   LSCA was very much outside their comfort zones.  One young lady dropped her paddle and had a melt down.  One girl wanted to get out of her canoe so badly that she jumped from her canoe into one that was closer to shore.  Luckily they were both very close.  

This reminded me of the Marva Collins canoe fiasco of 2003 on Long Lake at Honeyrock.  IT was a blustery (literally snowing) October 1st.  My group leader partner (Dennis) and I had chosen to use the group canoes.  A couple of our colleagues, chose the regular canoes.  Needless to say, these 5th and 6th grade students from Milwaukee we canoeing to any bit of shore they could get to and flailing themselves upon the ground in tears.  Canoes and students were collected by van... all over the lake.  Ha.  I wonder if those kids will ever canoe again... they are nearly adults now.  I also wonder how they might tell the story.

A good paddling experience for all....

K