By Sarah Hendrix
Dr.
Hardwicke and Dr. Nicholson-Angle are the professors for the e-term The Spirit
of Adventure. Today’s class consisted of
class lecture, outdoor activities and a nice walk around Adams Lake. The classes focus is spiritual wellness,
faith among various cultures and how the natural world impacts our spirituality. The class will be leaving Wednesday, May 11,
to head to Lake Junaluska for about a week.
Our first class was mainly informative discussing expectations and what
will be occurring during the e-term.
Additionally, we discussed some history behind the spiritual connections
of Ferrum College to Methodism.
The hike that the Spirit of
Adventure class went on today was led by Aaron Conover who is the Director of
Ferrum Outdoors. At the beginning he
gave everyone a blindfold that they would need the whole time because some of
the activities required it. This also
would mean that you would need a partner for some of the activities. We were asked to walk through the woods
blindfolded while guided by our partner.
There were trees, limbs, pinecones, etc. all on the ground, so we had to
trust our partners enough and believe they would keep us safe. Another activity required being blindfolded while
your partner guided you to a tree and then the blindfolded person had to touch
and feel the tree and the area that was around it. After that the partner and the blindfolded
person went back to the starting point where they could then take the blindfold
off. Then the person that was
blindfolded had to go and find the tree their partner had picked for them. A lot of people found their tree and that was
because their senses were used to figure out what tree they had come in contact
with. The class really seemed to enjoy
the activities and they trusted their partners, but they also used their
senses, which will be needed all throughout the Spirit of Adventure e-term.
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