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Grade 11 28 Hour Survival Training in Oriental Land

April 27, 2012

Students had to build with their own hands the makeshift tents in which they slept at night. Intentionally given very little instructions on how to put the pieces of equipment they were given together, students relied instead on collaborating with their team members to figure everything out. All teams picked up on the method gradually, and soon there were students hammering nails into the ground, holding up pillars of the tent so they could be secured to the ground, tying knots to seal the corners of the tent, and installing metal frames that would serve as windows on the roof of the tents. Once the tents were properly set up, students carried beds, mattresses, pillows, sheets, and covers into them; each tent can hold up to ten people. There were no floors to the tents: beneath the beds were mud and grass. At night, the temperature within the tents dropped drastically, as dew collected at the surface of the tents. Many students woke up in the middle of the night from the cold.