| New Hampshire-Vermont Semester Program 2010
We still have spaces for a few more students
Imagine yourself waking at the first light of dawn; it is
warm and cozy in your down bag. Your peers lie snuggled all
around you, faces buried inside their sleeping bag. Soon the
crackling of the fire in the titanium stove lets you know that
warmth will replace the cold 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 Connecticut River; 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 images 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 life. This journey
is not a high-tech experience instead 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. You will receive High School
credit while on this amazing journey.
Sign up now for the upcoming
New Hampshire-Vermont Semester 2010
Please call (603) 835-9087 e-mail us at semester@kroka.org
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