| Vermont Semester
Program ’09 – Almost FULL
Amazing opportunity for only 2 more students
Imagine yourself waking at the first light of dawn looking
up at the interior of a cotton tent you helped sew. Frost crystals
coat the ceiling. Your classmates lie snuggled all around you,
faces buried inside the sleeping bag. Soon the crackling of
the fire in the titanium stove lets you know that warmth will
replace thecold temperatures. A full day of skiing awaits you;
there are miles to cover, animal tracks to decipher, trees to
study along the way, maps to interpret, and weather to read.
This is your classroom and the subject is winter living.
Now imagine yourself 300 miles farther along on the journey
falling asleep to the pitter-patter of spring rain on the canvas
shell of an overturned and sheltering canoe. You stare up into
the arching cedar canoe ribs and remember bending each one into
place. You roll over and feel your sheath knife, the first thing
you made on this journey, press against you. In your resting
body and empty hands you hold the skills and knowledge that
brought you thus far. You hold this knowledge like an artist
and the earth is your medium. This is no longer just a three
hundred mile canoe trip down the length of Vermont; this has
become a journey home to a simple and profound life that you
will carry with you far beyond the semester.
The Vermont Semester is a five month long program designed
to turn these imaginings into reality. You will live and travel
with your teachers in a small group of young people. On this
six hundred-mile journey upon which you travel by your own power
using equipment made by your own hands you will learn about
community life. You will embrace and support each other in good
and hard times. The curriculum is designed to provide you with
the practical skills and knowledge necessary to accomplish a
600-mile wilderness journey by ski and canoe – skills
that will continue to serve you for your entire lives. This
journey is not a high-tech experience. You will employ many
traditional skills, which draw heavily upon the understanding
of local ecology. First hand use and dependency upon natural
resources will promote appreciation for the inter-connectedness
of all life, and our place as stewards upon the planet.
Sign up quickly, only 2 spots left for
the upcoming
New Hampshire-Vermont Semester ’09.
Please call or e-mail Lisl at semester@kroka.org
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