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Tree Hugging

This weeks trip, our class ventured to the woods to embrace the trees. For this task we had to be blindfolded while a partner guided you around to hug a tree. Once you really got to know your tree, your partner would guide you back to the common meeting point where we all started. After being back at the starting point, you had to search for the tree that you hugged.

For my group, I had two partners due to the uneven number of people in class that day. Luckily they were my very close friends, so we made this assignment fun. First, I was guiding one of my friend, Gyll, to find the perfect tree for her. Of course my other friend, Tiia, who was also helping guide found the hardest path to follow. We managed to guide Gyll, keep in mind that she was blind folded, down a fairly steep hill, across a stream with out getting wet, find a tree, and get her back to the starting point with out her falling. To me it seems like that takes some skill.


When it was my turn to be guided, my two partners took me off path to a random tree. Since I couldn't see anything, all I remembered stepping on piles of twigs and almost tripping over fallen trees. The tree they made me hug was actually one of those fallen trees. Once they brought me back to start, I was quickly able to find the one.

From this experience, I was realized that even the simple things in nature can be fun. Also that every tree needs some type of love, especially the fallen ones.










Link: http://tanglewoodnaturecenter.com

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