Flagstaff Hut Overnight

When taking an overnight trip with forty 8th graders there are bound to be wins and losses...
To mix it up, let's start with the Losses

LOSSES

• Not enough food
• One group of boys dumped their canoe
• 2 hours of sleep--sleep talkers, snoring, and creaking bed+restless sleeper added onto staying up WAY too late.

WINS

• 6 am kayak with a boy who usually has an elephant-sized chip on his shoulder
• guest speaker who grew up in Dead River
• learning constellations from an astronomer 
• one group of boys dumped their canoe
• watching my students just play without any toys or electronics at the "Vista"