Laura

My experience at Sargent Camp wasn’t just like a normal camping trip, it involved much more! When everybody got on the bus there was a buzz of excitement throughout all the seats. Everyone was talking about what they thought it would be like and look like. Everybody was excited. Nobody knew how important it would be at Sargent camp to have trust during those three days. When we got there we couldn’t wait to get going. We then found out who was in our cabin and what cabin we were in. As soon as we checked out our cabin and dropped our duffel bags, we got started! We started on some daily activities including trust falls.

In Sargent camp, trust was very important to have. It helped us in lots of activities. The activities it was important to have trust for were trust falls, the night walk, the nitro pit and the ropes course. Activities wouldn’t have worked as well without trust. For ex. In trust falls if you didn’t have trust that your friends would catch you, you wouldn’t want to fall back. Then you wouldn’t get practice in trust. If nobody in the group had trust, nobody would want to fall back.

I was just standing on the wet grass, my brain quickly debating whether I should stupidly fall backwards on the grass, or whether I should say:Hey really, my friends are going to catch me, it will bed fine. Just do it! I closed my eyes tightly and crossed my arms across my chest. My heart was beating rapidly. Ba boom. Ba boom. I muttered the commands. “Spotters ready?” “Ready.” “Falling!” “Fall away.” I slowly fell back, trusting that my friends would catch me. Slowly, slowly, and “lo and behold”, thud! They caught me! I don’t know if my trust improved within my group in lots of things. But I know it improved in trust falls, and it may have in other things.

Trust isn’t only good for Sargent camp, it helps people in daily activities too. In soccer, you have to trust your teammates to pass you the ball. You also have to have trust in school and in friendships. In school, you have to trust your classmates to get the right answer if the teacher calls on them. For ex. in Spanish class, nobody had gotten the answer right on the first try in 5th grade. We all wanted to be the only class to get it right on the first try. We had to trust the classmate the Spanish teacher called on if we wanted to be the only class to get the answer right on the first try. We had to trust the classmate the Spanish teacher called on if we wanted to be the only class to get the answer right on the first try.

All in all, trust was one of the main elements, that you needed to perform all the activities at Sargent camp!