Hello everyone! You will read this after we have left for expedition, but we write this first update as we pack and get ready to leave on the trip. Though this is only Day 4, the happy sounds coming from campus make it seem as if we have been in Leadville for much longer! School […]
This past Saturday we had a square dance! We went to the 6th Street Gym in Leadville and danced the evening away. There was a professional caller who came all the way up from Buena Vista and taught us many different dances. The simplest one we learned was to the song “Cotton-Eyed Joe.” We hooked
This week marks the final stretch of classes here on campus. In English we finished up our portfolios and are now working on slam poems and short stories. Slam poems are spoken poems about a struggle in society and students will be speaking them in class later this week. For P&P we are starting our
Ever since 3rd expedition, classes have been going full speed ahead to take advantage of the four consecutive weeks of school we get this May, which allows for more long-term projects. We’ve been working on our lyric essays for English class for more than a week now, and they’ll finally be done this Friday. The
This past week was our second week back on campus from third expedition. In English class we just finished reading Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer. It was a very good book to discuss because the feelings towards the story were very polarized. The other day in both of the Spanish classes we watched a video that
We have arrived back to campus after our third and final expedition! Here are our stories: Group A’s expedition group comprised of smelly socks, sandy couscous, plenty of Milky Ways, and laughter to the point that our insides hurt. Returning to the canyons brought both feelings of familiarity and relief for many of us, although each day presented
The week leading up to Parents’ Weekend was jam-packed and we were all was itching for our families to arrive. Everyone worked their hardest during both chore sessions on Friday to make HMI look as beautiful as possible. As we boarded the bus into town on Friday night, butterflies were fluttering in all of our stomachs. Seeing
This past week has been pretty busy in classes. We only had one full day of relaxation after second expedition before we were thrown back into the saddle. We’ve got a lot going on in preparation for Parents’ Weekend: a creative science project on how climate change impacts certain species; an English poem that is
On Saturday we returned from winter expedition and have started to get back into the normal routine of HMI life. Here are stories from each of the expedition groups. Group A spent our 11 days traveling around the ‘great Homestake peak’. Our expedition took us a good ten miles of distance, but with back-and-forths in between. Although it was cold
We have been having a lot of fun in these two weeks leading up to our winter expedition. In science class, we have been studying the subnivean zone, which includes everything that exists within and under the snowpack. We recently wrapped up our English unit by submitting our first essay about Native Americans, cowboys, and
