Lifestyleweek II Day I

Lifestyleweek II was all about daring. Daring to ask, daring to do something different and daring to overcome your fears. There were rumors about what we had to do, because all we knew was that we had to wear warm clothes and that we had to be outside all day. So I made sure I was prepared!


Day I - "Just let go and trust your fellow students!"
Behind the warm wellness center Thermen in Son en Breugel, we were outside, in the snow. "What a contrast to start of your day, but don't judge yet, it might be fun!" We were divided in groups that had to do a parcours of different dare-activities. It was all about trusting the people in your group, cooperating with them and overcoming your fears.

In the "spiderweb" we had to work together to get everyone through the holes in the net, without touching the net or going through the same hole more than once. Because of those rules, other students had to get me through the net by picking me up, and passing me over to other students on the other side of the net. This was about cooperation, trust and creative thinking.




There were more activities that involved climbing and abseiling. I've done these things before, but because this time I had to climb up a tree in stead of a climbing  wall, I was a little harder for me.

Over all I liked most of the activities, because with some, I overcame my fears and all the activities were really binding. For me, most of the activities weren't too hard, because I don't have a fear of hight and most things were up high. It was interesting to see that other people really had to overcome their fears and that they had a hard time trusting other students. For instance: we had to climb up a ladder and let ourselves fall into the hands of the other students. Some students were really scared, so I heard comments like "Just let go and trust your fellow students!"