"Before I Go"

"Before I Go"                   09/03/2011    

 Next monday my pastrol care class and I will be embarking on a 4 week journey which will test our mental abillity and our physical attrabuites. The Journey is expected to test us physically and show our real characters. Some of the thoughts that are going through my head are, what is the camp going to be like, will I make it through by my self or will i need the help of my peers. Some of the exciting parts of my journey which I am looking foward to is finding my real character and what I am made of. I am also looking foward to who I will get along with and who I wont get along with so well. At the moment while I wonder what the camp is going to be like I feel uneasy of the thought of being away from home for 4 weeks and how will things be done. I am also very unsure if I have the character and the mental strength to do so much fitness work. Although I am very motivated by the though of becoming bigger stronger faster and more independent when I come back. Because of this I belive the camp will be a bit of give and take. Firstly it will give us the chance of freedom being away from our parents. It will also give us the sense of becoming stronger even though the trade off is plenty of early morning wake ups and long long runs. And some the things we have to give up is the fact that our parents wont be there to guide us when we are lost or be there when we fall, speaking metaphorically. This will really test our independence.
 
  Having an older brother who has been on the wabanna journey before really makes me nervous about the camp because of all the storys he has told me about getting sick of living with others and getting sick of them and letting our anger get the better of us. But although this makes me nervous it also will help me get over some of the unusual experiences I will have to face.

  At the end of the Camp I am really looking foward to how I will change. I belive the camp will really change me mentaly, physically, make me respect others, make me respect what my parents do and lastly make me more independent. I belive these changes will only come into place if I really put in the hard yards wheather is during the fitness tests our the group activitys I belive puting in my best effort will change me and this is a real motivation which I will act towards to help me get though the camp.

  My final comment is that during this camp I will do everything I can to become a better person and get a glimpse of the real world which is apart from the spoilt and rotten world many of us (including me) live in. I hope to achive things that I would not normally aspire to. And lastly I belive it will be the trip of a life time and it will be worth the hard work and the tirless acctivitys but it will all be good fun.

Adam Gwinnett