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Well, its good to be back... temporarily. Being the young idiot I am, I got caught up in some things with some of the wrong people, made a few mistakes, and it ended up coming back to bite me in the ass. I got scentenced to 3 months in a wilderness program, I've been there for a month and a half and I'm on a homepass for the weekend.
I spent 2 weeks in the residential program at Tressler Wilderness Center, followed by a month of the Wilderness Challenge, which envolved tons of hiking and rock climbing. The group was outdoors for a month straight, we camped out every night no matter how cold it was. Some of the nights I could barely sleep because it was so cold. It snowed and rained quite a bit too, which didn't make it alot of fun. I've never been so exhausted in my life. It sounds like a camping trip, but hiking 13 miles through the mountains in pouring down freezing rain with a 65-pound pack on my back and no dry clothes to change into isn't exactly my idea of fun. I'm glad I got that over with, I just graduated from the Wilderness Challenge on Thursday morning. It felt really good to accomplish somthing, and as much as I hated doing it, I learned alot. You really start to appreciate the little things when you're taking 3 showers a month and you're physically and emotionally exhausted. I've never been so happy just to be indoors.
Once my homepass ends on Sunday, I go back to the residential program for another month and a half. I was in the Wilderness Challenge over Thanksgiving... my Thanksgiving dinner was celery, carrots, applesauce, and a Nutri-Grain bar because I couldn't get a fire started to cook my food. Like I said, I really learned to appreciate everything that I would normally take for granted. Hopefully I'll get a Christmas homepass. My 18th birthday is this Tuesday so I'll be in the residential program for that. I'm just trying my best to learn from my mistakes to make sure this never happens again, because if I don't start getting myself together than I could end up somewhere alot worse. I know I have no one to blame but myself for ending up where I am, so all I can do now is learn and hopefully use this time to benefit myself. Just wanted to let you guys know why I haven't been around. I still have the CRX, once I get out on January 25th I plan on changing the brakes and finishing the clutch. Anyways.... wish me luck for the rest of my time. What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger, so I'm ready to put this all in my past.
I spent 2 weeks in the residential program at Tressler Wilderness Center, followed by a month of the Wilderness Challenge, which envolved tons of hiking and rock climbing. The group was outdoors for a month straight, we camped out every night no matter how cold it was. Some of the nights I could barely sleep because it was so cold. It snowed and rained quite a bit too, which didn't make it alot of fun. I've never been so exhausted in my life. It sounds like a camping trip, but hiking 13 miles through the mountains in pouring down freezing rain with a 65-pound pack on my back and no dry clothes to change into isn't exactly my idea of fun. I'm glad I got that over with, I just graduated from the Wilderness Challenge on Thursday morning. It felt really good to accomplish somthing, and as much as I hated doing it, I learned alot. You really start to appreciate the little things when you're taking 3 showers a month and you're physically and emotionally exhausted. I've never been so happy just to be indoors.
Once my homepass ends on Sunday, I go back to the residential program for another month and a half. I was in the Wilderness Challenge over Thanksgiving... my Thanksgiving dinner was celery, carrots, applesauce, and a Nutri-Grain bar because I couldn't get a fire started to cook my food. Like I said, I really learned to appreciate everything that I would normally take for granted. Hopefully I'll get a Christmas homepass. My 18th birthday is this Tuesday so I'll be in the residential program for that. I'm just trying my best to learn from my mistakes to make sure this never happens again, because if I don't start getting myself together than I could end up somewhere alot worse. I know I have no one to blame but myself for ending up where I am, so all I can do now is learn and hopefully use this time to benefit myself. Just wanted to let you guys know why I haven't been around. I still have the CRX, once I get out on January 25th I plan on changing the brakes and finishing the clutch. Anyways.... wish me luck for the rest of my time. What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger, so I'm ready to put this all in my past.