The last soar blog

The last Soar x was a lot of fun. We got to go to the hot springs there was a slide there and it was a lot of fun going down it. It was not a sucky slide. It was a big one that had a drop in the middle it was cool. It was a lot of fun. The weather was warm too so it was not too cold when you’re getting out of the water the water was 104 degrees. It was it was lot of fun. We went rock-climbing at Lander- It was a fun and hard climbs I was tired when I Finnish. We went to the dinosaur museum to it was cool and also lot of fun. Over all this was a got semester

miles 5th expedition wyoming

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We started our last ex by landing in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then we headed to Wyoming to go to a really cool campsite outside of Lander, Wyoming. Then we went to an absolutely huge mostly natural hot springs, and there was an awesome slide and a really cool basketball hoop in the center of the pool, there were also lots of hot tubs that were considerably warmer than the rest of the pool.

Afterwards, we went to a dinosaur museum and it had lots of huge dinosaurs. I couldn’t tell you any of their names, but they were really cool.

Then we left for our next campsite which was at EVR (Eagle View Ranch) which is SOAR’s western base in Wyoming. There we really buckled down on bear protocol. We had to take all trash and smelly items out of our pockets, and learn how to handle a grizzly by walking away and not looking it in the eye. After that we went to our “backcountry” out in the National Forest behind EVR that led to a big canyon. We forgot our pump for the small stove, so we had to cook rice over a really hot fire which burnt the pot. Unluckily, it was my job to clean the pot and that was no fun. But we had lots of good laughs by telling lots of stories and being warm by a sweet fire.

 After we left the backcountry we had to skip our plan to do shoot rifles until the next day because the police had to practice their shooting at the range; therefore we had picked up trash on the side of the road instead. It was my sister’s birthday that day. After that we went to the rifle range and every one had fun and made pretty good shots.

That’s pretty much all that happened on that expedition, bye.

Expedition 5: Wyoming By Evan Harr

We started out the Wyoming expedition at a very cold campsite full of snow. We only stayed there for a night and then we moved on to the Wind River Campsite. While we were there, we drove into Thermopolis and went to Star Plunge and the dinosaur museum. Star plunge is a big hot spring with a couple slides and an indoor and outdoor pool. The really long slide goes really fast and it makes all sorts of turns. The indoor pool was pretty cool but it smelled really bad. The outdoor pool had a little slide, a high dive and a basketball hoop to shoot in the water.

After we were done having fun in Thermopolis, we headed on over to Lander. We had a lot of fun rock climbing there, and I climbed just about every route. After that was done, we headed up to Eagle View Ranch, and it was very cold the first night we got there. It was getting down to -10, so we had to sleep inside in one of the cabins. Most of the time in Wyoming we stayed at EVR and used the facilities, but we did most of the other things backcountry style. We did a few things nearby like cleaning up our highway, and we found some really cool things on the side of our road like an arrow. We also went to Jeremy’s house, went on a hike, and did riflery. The hobo dinners at Jeremy’s house were delicious, and we did a much more extended version of riflery. It was a really cool and fun expedition overall!

Wyoming Expedition Andrew Sanchez

Andrew Sanchez

Our final expedition started out as all of the other ones have for the past four months, with a long car, and plane ride. The first thing we did after landing was eat at a Mexican restaurant to celebrate one of our counselors birthday.

          We then spent the rest of the night driving to our campsite, and then setting up our sleeping gear at said campsite.

The next day we drove to a nice little campsite called The Wind River campground.  After a good night’s sleep, we relaxed in the Star Plunge hot springs. This hot springs also happened to have a “diving”(I put this in quotations because diving wasn’t allowed) board and two slides, though only one of the two was open.

          Our next sleeping ground that I remember was Eagle View Ranch. Unfortunately, our first backcountry experience was cancelled, so we instead camped in a canyon only a few miles from EVR (Eagle View Ranch). Our next activity was the Adopt a highway program where we cleaned up a section of highway. We then participated in Riflery. Our next activity was sledding, but unfortunately this too we were unable to do, so we instead sat around the fire and played games.

          Our next night was spent at a KOA located in Salt Lake City. This was the last night of our last Expedition out in the west. We then took a plane back to Atlanta, and arrived in North Carolina at about 3:00 Am. 

TK Experience at Soar

There have been many good experiences that have come out of being and taking part in the program at Soar. I have been able to travel to places and do things, which I would not have been able to do otherwise.  But if I were asked what the benefits of soar in comparison to my former school, there are not many benefits that come to mind. My former school was a small school with a ratio of about four to five students per class. Soar is also relatively small in the aspect that it has 8 students in the class. However not every one is in the same grade or studying the same subject or class, so this tends to be confusing. At my previous school the teachers where able to give each student more attention one on one and were slightly more efficient with presenting the material, more over, the level of education which I received was higher than at Soar. While Soar is a great program and works hard to meet the needs of its students, the level of the academics strikes me sometimes as somewhat of a joke. The reason for which, is that when I came to Soar I found myself repeating some courses, which I had already completed.

Wyoming expedition blog by PJ Perlitz

There were many times this expedition where I had to advocate for something. There was actually one main reason for advocating all the times that I did. I have been under a lot of stress this expedition and I needed some help getting through it. First, I had a lot of math and I knew I was not going to be able to finish all of it. Also, I have been stressed out about my situation for after this semester. I will need to do summer school if I chose to go to school next year. Also, I am stressed about how things will go with my mom when I get home.

To take care of all these problems I needed to advocate to talk to a counselor. Talking things over and getting things off my chest really helped this expedition. I was able to release my frustrations and even solve some of my problems. This made doing daily activities a lot easier because I did not have as much stuff on my mind.

First, talking about my math really helped me break it down and understand what I need to get done. I realized that I can do some of the work on base and I can do some on the next expedition. It was really stressful but talking about it helped me get over it and work my hardest.

Next, I was able to talk about a plan for the summer. I talked about how my schedule seemed to be full. I thought it over and realized that looking over my schedule could open up some time for activities. I was also able to pick some priorities for the summer. All of these actions seemed to relieve some stress.

Finally, I talked a lot about my relationship with my mom. I realized that it may be hard to rebuild a good relationship with her and that caused a good amount of stress. I talked it over and I came to the conclusion that I should stay positive when talking to my mom instead of continuing to talk about my frustrations. I think talking about this frustration really helped on this expedition.

This expedition has been the most important when it comes to advocating. I have found that advocating can help you with almost any situation or problem.