WOW and its benefits

WOW or Week withOut Walls is a very important learning experience. Not only does it teach us to tough it out when you are not in the ideal world you usually are in, but it teaches you teamwork, responsibility, time management and many other things. For example, rafting through the dangerous rapids requires a lot of team work since you can only make it through if everyone workd together. Also you have to be extremely responsible as you may lose a valuable object, like a mobile or i-Pod, as well as make some type of mistake, which you were warned against, and put yourself or someone else in danger of some sort. Now where does time management come in? Well, being on time is not only a major holdback for the group but also a major hold back for you. Being on time is a very important thing, since a lot of things depend on whether you are on time. Some such things could be, whether you have enough time to do the activity planned or not, whether you missed something important that might impact your safety, or some thing else like that. Teamwork, responsibility, and time management are just some of the skills you learn on WOW that you may not be able to learn during school. There are many others but then again I could take a week writing about all of them, and I’m sure you would not want to read that much, right?

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