Sean (seanthebluesheep)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Oct-11 20:36:17 UTC

Sean

Anypony care to proofread this? - Every summer since I was seven years old save one year, I have gone camping for two weeks with an organisation that specialises in removing city kids from their comfort zones and putting them in a field with no technology and making them work. I thoroughly enjoy Forest School Camps (www.fsc.org.uk though more useful information will probably be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_School_Camps ) Tasks done on FSC include chopping and sawing wood, preparing food for a camp of roughly one hundred people, lighting fires from gathered firewood, putting up and striking tents and in the middle of the camp, a four day hike. All of these require a level head and a moderate amount of common sense, and as camps usually take place in high rainfall areas at the height of the British summer, a tolerance for uncomfortable conditions and the ability to shrug something off and keep working rather than whining that it is either too wet or too hot.