Tag: Frontier College

Check out Barack Obama’s remarks from his speech to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…I will post the link below…One particularly inspiring line: “No one has written your destiny for you – your destiny is in your hands. You cannot forget that, that’s what we have to teach our children.” I can’t…

Up and Down, Up and Down… I have titled tonight’s entry, ‘Up and Down, Up and Down’ for a couple of reasons. Most of them stem from the rollercoaster ride of a day I am now about to finish. Today was the kind of rollercoaster that you get on at the beginning, full of anticipation,…

A Rainy Day… Today’s weather was much like the majority that we have endured so far in Fort Hope. It was cold, wet, rainy and windy…I’m beginning to think that someone at the weather channel just rolls the dice when predicting weather for Fort Hope. I mean seriously, I looked at the forecast yesterday morning…

Fearnall Online Gets it’s 1,000th Hit!

Field of Dreams… I am going to start at the end…Today was a great day for me…I was able to recapture a past time of my youth, and with it, the associated glory. I am of course talking about baseball. Tonight I spent a good portion of two hours playing baseball with about 18 guys…

Reset…and Go! I’m a little short on words tonight, so this is probably going to be relatively brief…Today was what I am calling our ‘reset and go’ day. After muddling our way through the first week of camp this weekend was an opportunity for us to reset our program and expectations for the rest of…

Heart Beat Drum Strokes… Today was the second and final day of our hand drum workshop. After arriving this morning we participated in opening prayer and then began the process of stringing our drums. We attached the drum skin to the frame using pieces of moose hide leather. It was a long and arduous process,…

Hand Drums Well, it rained again today…It was also cold again today…haha…Just when we thought that we were maybe going to be rid of the cold, wet weather the skies over Fort Hope darkened once again and on came the wind, rain and cold! I don’t really mind yet though, I’m in a rather calm,…

The Inauguration… Today marked the end of our first week of official camp time. I’m not really counting the weeks, but I suppose in a way I am…The passing of time is kind of strange for me right now. To be honest I feel like I have already been in Fort Hope for a long…

Sleepy… I’m not going to lie…Right now I am exhausted and I really need to sleep. It isn’t so much as a result of a long day with the kids, it’s more so a result of a long day in general. We had a really long planning session tonight with the entire team, and as…