So much has happened in the last three weeks!!! I've been mountaineering, white water kayaking and sea kayaking! Sometimes I think back to it all and am so surprised at all i'm doing. I think giving the details off all of it will take WAY too long and take up WAY too much space, but i'm happy to share some lessons i've learned:
1. living in a tiny hut with 9 males takes patience...and an open mind.
2. dehydrated beef is fantastic!! and a surefire way to impress an instructor.
3. I am able to save you when we are mountaineering and you fall down a crevasse.
4. getting up at 4:00 am is fabulous when you are doing something you absolutely LOVE!
5. wearing long underwear, a wetsuit, fleece over top, and a dry top over that instantly makes you have to pee.
6. peeing in your wetsuit is not a good idea.
7. I wont become the world's best white water kayaker, but it is fun to bomb down big rapids sometimes.
8. Learning can happen quickly or require much study and repetition...i still can't roll a kayak regularily....Grrrrrr.
9. Just call me meteorologist renae! all I have to say is high or low pressure systems, frontal systems, ridges, troughs, wind, waves, tides, currents, clouds, skys...and everything inbetween, i've heard it this week...and then gone out and experienced it while navigating a kayak in 2 meter swells!
10. BE PROUD of what you accomplish in your own heart and mind no matter what others have done, what others say, or the expectations put on you!!
2 comments:
great post renae! Although, i have to disagree with number 4. getting up at 4am always sucks...even when it's for something you love. ha!
Tee hee #6 ;)
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