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Does your group or team need help? Try our challenge courses! We provide various approaches and opportunities for participants. More importantly, all activities are conducted in a safe environment!
•Our goals
◇ Bring participants together in a new environment where they'll share a common experience while working together.
◇Encourage group trust. Participants must rely on others, completing the course as a group and not on an individual basis.
◇Overcome personal fears of lack of confidence.
◇Improve goals setting and problem solving skills.
◇Encourage safe, appropriate risks taking in a caring environment.
•Planning a program
A variety of challenge course programs can be designed. Working with your group, the center will design a program based on your group／team's goals, schedule, group size and budget. The center offers team building programs for youth, adolescents and adults. High challenge courses are physically, mentally and emotionally challenging. An instructions and equipment are provided by the center.
•Requirements for high challenge courses
◇Climbing Tower—must be 9 years or older.
◇High Ropes—must be 12 years or older.
•Group pricing
◇Low Challenge Course—$150／per 15 people
◇High Challenge Course—$300／per 15 people
◇Both—$400／per 15 people
The two courses are annually inspected by a professional organization—Challenge Design Innovations. You can contact the center by phone 434-348-5444 or by email heathern@vt. edu to plan your next challenge course program！
"The movie American Sniper is on." I said to my husband.
We decided to watch, thinking it would take our minds off my husband's situation at work. He had been working with the same organization for about twenty-three years, and the management, he suspected, was preparing to let him go. The signs were pretty clear and I felt his pain.
I wondered if American Sniper was the wrong movie to watch and considered changing the channel. Maybe something lighter was good. A family comedy with laughter would have been more uplifting for my husband.
We turned the volume down as our son James was studying in the next room.
"You know this movie is based on a true story, "I said, half thinking about my husband's situation and half watching the movie.
"Yes." he replied. "It's based on Chris Kyle's book."
I thought about all the young men who had lost their lives in Iraq. "Some of those boys were only a couple of years older than James, "I said.
As I watched the movie, I began to realize how small our problems really were. "You know, other couples are wondering if their sons are safe on a battlefield, and here we are with our son perfectly safe in the next room."
Over the next hour, the mood in our room changed from depression to gratitude. How fortunate we were! Our son was healthy and safe. We had a roof over our heads and could walk outside without worrying whether there would be bullets(子弹)flying through the air. As for my husband's job, he could do something else—something that he would love.
Looking at the big picture and moving from" depression to reflection" have made all the difference.
When my mother died a few years ago, we looked through boxes in which she had lovingly stored her children's lives. Handwritten report cards from grade school. News cuttings about games. Postcards from summer camps. And so many photos: birthdays, graduations, weddings and trips to wonderful places.
After my father's death, I found many handwritten pity letters from his friends. Rereading them once a year, I am transported back to the time I miss so much. Of course, I received many emails about Dad as well, but I wouldn't begin to know how or where to find them. Besides, personal messages are more meaningful when presented in the hand of the sender.
My kids, now in their 20s, have mostly digital keepsakes. Increasingly they rely on Facebook to store memories. Their letters from college, sent by email, are long gone. Many photos, never printed, have disappeared. I really worry that for them.
In Andrew Hoskins' new book Digital Memory Studies, he concludes, "Despite the gradual disappearance of photographs, letters and other objects that are reminders of people and past experiences, their keeping is like holding on to those people and experiences." Digital items offer nothing of the kind.
Mark B. McKinley explained that collecting physical memorabilia (值得纪念的事物)can serve as a means of control to bring out a comfort zone in one's life, calming fears and easing worries. It's no wonder that children are fond of collecting things—it's important to their development.
One mother says, "My Son collects pieces of broken stones." The kid might become a great geologist or a successful businessman. But will his mom print out a photo of that unique collection? Will his degree in geology be memorialized on paper, or will he be given a digital diploma? And will he collect his first paycheck or will he be paid by direct deposit?
When I'm travelling, someone always asks me, "Doesn't Australia have a holiday for a horse race?" It's just one of those things that flash across the mind when people hear the word" Australia".
I never quite know how to respond. I mean, Australia indeed has such a public holiday. There's the race that stops the nation.
I mean that we should give sporting events their own day. Sport in itself is an event that is shared by people. It bridges differences and unites us on a primitive level—the cheers of the crowd, the desire for victory and the creation of the community.
However, it is difficult to neglect the advertising promotion of these public holidays. Big businesses use these days to develop our bad habits, such as large bets and alcoho1. As these public holidays roll around, our screens are filled with ads telling us to place bets with money-back guarantees.
I really believe that we can have public holidays that consider our human need for community. But it requires a change from sport to culture. And here's my case study: Singapore. Singapore has a long list of public holidays, and the list is long for a very specific reason—to acknowledge the cultural holidays of its diverse population.
The effectiveness of its public holidays is obvious: they expose the entire population to difference. I remember growing up in Singapore and celebrating Hari Raya with my friends, learning about Islamic culture and the reasons behind certain traditions. Isn't that what public holidays are about, a day off to reconnect with yourself, your family and the wider community?
In recent years, riding a hot-air balloon has become more and more popular. Many people practice flying a hot-air balloon as a sport. Some people may question the safety of riding a hot-air balloon. Generally speaking, hot-air balloons are quite safe.
Before examining the safety of hot-air balloons, it may help to understand how they work. Each balloon has a large bag called an envelope, attached to a bag or gondola(吊篮). In order to get enough lift, the air in the bag is heated with the assistance of a flame. As the air heats up, the balloon rises.
Like kites, hot-air balloons travel with the wind. Typically, pilots choose the early morning hours to fly since wind speeds are low. Meanwhile, the flight will become more enjoyable.
High winds and extreme weather such as storm and snow are very dangerous. An experienced pilot will not fly in these conditions. Good pilots always check their equipment before beginning a flight, and they often carry backup for safety even in sunny days.
Riding hot-air balloons can be great fun, and it's very safe as long as passengers follow the directions of the pilot. People who have a fear of heights may want to skip the experience, however.
A. Of course, some people enjoy it as a relaxing activity.
B. Low wind speeds make flying hot-air balloons much safer.
C. This, of course, is for those who love to challenge themselves.
D. The requirements of flying a hot-air balloon vary in different nations.
E. The weather is the most important concern in the safety of hot-air balloons.
F. Sometimes weather, such as lightning, is the cause of hot-air balloon accidents.
G. When the flight is over, the pilot slowly lets out air to allow the balloon to drop.
Mark Eklund was in the first third grade class that I taught at Saint Mary's Schoo1. Neat in appearance, he had that happy-to-be-alive 1 that made even his occasional mischievousness (恶作剧) delightful. What impressed me so much, 2, was his sincere response every time I had to correct him for misbehaving: "Thank you for 3 me. Sister!" I did not know what to 4 it at first, but before long I became accustomed to hearing it many times a day.
One Friday, I asked the pupils to think of the 5 things of their classmates and write them down. That Saturday, I 6 the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that individual. On Monday I gave each student his or her 7 .Some of them ran two pages. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" I heard the whispers. "I never knew that meant 8 to anyone."
Several years later, I heard of the news that Mark was 9 in the war. At his funeral, Mark's parents found me. "We want to show you something, "Mark's father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket, "They found this 10 Mark when he was shot dead. It 11 him all his life. ". Opening it, he carefully removed two 12 pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been folded and refolded many times. I knew without looking that the pieces of paper were the ones on which I had listed all the good things Mark's 13 had said about him. That's 14 I finally sat down and cried fight there.
Sometimes the smallest thing could 15 the most to others.
When people hear the word "rat" they may think of dirty animals that spread disease. You may also connect the word "rat" with bad expressions. Indeed, rats generally are not beloved animals either in life the English language. But the rat trainers at the nonprofit organization, APOPO, see the animals very (different). They consider the rats lifesavers. (base)in Tanzania, APOPO trains giant rats to find landmines(地雷). And the rats with their extraordinary sense of smell are very suitable the job. APOPO calls their animal team HeroRats.
Worldwide there are 110 million hidden explosives left over from war. These explosives are still "live," or able to explode. Such landmines kill or wound 5000 people year. Humans (use) metal-searching devices to do this work for years. But trained rats do it better and also cost less money. When the rats (work) in the field find a landmine, they scratch on the ground. That's how we know. We place a little marker there, and then we can safely remove those and get rid of (they).
The giant pouched rat is large compared to other (kind) of rats. However, they still do not weigh enough (cause) a landmine to explode. So these rats can really be heroes. They show every day that they are worthy of that name.
We were enjoying the summer vacation on the beaches of beautiful Gulf shores Alabama. My oldest daughter was about 6 years old and the youngest was 3. We bought a two-man inflatable boat thinking this would make for a really fun day for the two girls. And so it did. The two of them played all day in that boat.
Not far from us, a middle-aged man was taking a sunbath, greeting us with a smile now and then. Later the little one got tired and was beginning to look pretty pink with too much sun. So, I took her to our spot on the sand and placed an umbrella over her as my older girl continued to play in the boat. I probably became a little too involved with my younger daughter and spent a little too much time not noticing what was going on the small distance to the water. But as I looked l became concerned as I saw the little boat had moved far out from the shore with my oldest daughter in it. I called to her to come in closer to shore but she seemed to be too frightened to accomplish just that. We hadn't thought to buy any oars for the boat. Her little arms were too short to reach across the boat and into the water. All she could do was paddle hard to one side and was just making small circles.
About this time, others on the beach noticed this but no one seemed to be doing anything but watching. Being a pitiful swimmer, I was standing as far out in the water as I could. Shouting instructions to her with no success. I watched her float farther out to sea and prayed to God. "Lord. I don't believe you gave me this beautiful child for me to watch her float out to sea. Lord, please save her!"
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As if by miracle, that middle-aged man turned out to be the answer to my paper.
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I reached out my hands as my girl got out of the boat．
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