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Pine School Trusting Challenges

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Trusting people could be a hard thing to do when you only see them in school. For our eighth grade retreat, we went to Pine Lake Challenge Course in Bristol, Connecticut. A group was faced with different challenges that could only be completed by working as a team. The challenges that the groups faced required teamwork, and trust in one another. By the end of the day, I felt that I had more trust in my classmates. One of the challenges that my group faced was very difficult. There was a platform and it acted like a seesaw; it would tip to one side if force was applied to that side. The challenge required us to get the entire group onto the platform without it touching the ground, and the platform had to stay balanced for five seconds.

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