Journal #2

The EDGE experience was a lot of fun for me because it enabled to me learn more about my classmates.  Most of our class knows each other from other courses, so hearing more from them and encouraging each other throughout the day was awesome.  Our class was really supportive of everyone's ideas and remained positive during each exercise.  This was especially true for the wall climbing activity.

I haven't gone rock climbing in a long time, so reaching the top of the climbing wall in a reasonable amount of time impressed myself a little bit.  There's a ton of upper-body strength involved with the process and I didn't realize I had the ability for it.  I also discovered that I really enjoy everyone's presence in this class.  Everybody has a unique personality and hilarious traits that made Tuesday's activities rather funny.

I thought our facilitator did a nice job for the most part.  She really knew what she was doing and how to keep us engaged in the step by step advancing process.  Her thoughts and ideas were clear and easy to understand.  You could tell that she'd been teaching the program for a while, or was at least familiar with the general idea.  However, there was one time when I felt like she became frustrated with our performance during the island activity.  She definitely should have let us complete the activity on our own.  This would've only made us work harder as a group and eventually finish.  Plus, our ideas were all good ones and we seemed to be getting closer to figuring out the puzzle.  Overall, I did find her advice and encouragement helpful.  She even threw in some funny jokes every now and then, like "Beaver Sharks."