Personal Narrative-Ethnography Analysis

Have you ever done something you did not think you could? I definitely have. It was a windy day at Camp St. Croix. Our councillors woke us up and we went to eat breakfast. We had about 8 people in our cabin not including councillors. Our councillors were Moja and Javier. Moja was from Malaysia and Javier was from Columbia. It was scrambled eggs and sausage to eat with orange juice to drink. After that was over, we went to the morning gathering, sang a few songs, listened to some announcements, and finally got to go back to our cabin. When we got back to the cabin we played gaga ball for a little over an hour and screwed around for the rest of the time. Gaga ball is a game where you get into a pit that is shaped like an octagon and hit a kickball around. The point of the game is not to get hit in the knees down. If you get hit, you are out of …show more content…
It was about a 5 minute walk over to where we were going. When we got there, our councillors left to go grab something. At first I had no idea what were were doing, we were all confused on what we were doing. We were in the middle of the woods with 3 really big poles sticking out of the ground. They were about a foot wide and a half wide and went up quite a ways into the air. The pole was laced with little metal bars which looked like they were used to climb up the pole, which I later found out that I was right. I thought the poles were for electricity or a phone cable. There were two ropes that extended from the first pole to the two others creating a v shape. We were all sitting on a bench talking when our councillors returned with a bag full of something. When we looked in the bag, we were surprised to find a bunch of harnesses. This made me realized that the poles were not for electricity, they were for walking across. Even though I figured this out, I was still confused why there were 2 ropes. I just assumed we were going to walk across