How the challenge went

Since i was in the middle of the woods i wasn't tempted by tech. In some ways that may have been easier than the other levels, because i didn't have the temtation factor. It's not 'tempting' to use a stove in the middle of the woods. I really wished i could use a stove in the middle of the woods but i couldn't. We did have to improvise a lot though. My mom made me bring hand sanitizer and that was good because we had to use it like lighter fluid in the freezing cold hours of the morning. The biggest thing that i missed was heat. We take it for granted (or at least i did) that we are always in a reletivly comfortable temp. But when you are outside it's different. I didn't crave my iPod or my computer or even a flashlight as much as i just wanted a central heating system. It was cold. But second to heat came music, actually. not better food but music. We had acounted for this of course and brought guitars, but we couldn't play the whole time, so i really craved music often. We sang and stuff but as soon as i got home i listened to music. It was great. oh! and water. We had to boil it and stuff to purify it, and it didn't taste too great. But water is another one of those things not to take for granted. And not just water, i mean anything to drink. Just imagine every time you are thirsty you have to go across a swamp to a creak, get some water, burn youself putting it into the fire, and then burning yourself getting it out of the fire, and the finally drinking what tastes like water that is full of ash and was boiled in a bean can for 15minutes. It's gross. We used a video camera, to record it, and are in the process of editing it now, and we acidently used it as a flashlight when we were going to bed. We kind of forgot that we were doing the challenge, and were just using stuff to survive, and the videocamera works like a flashlight so we used it and didn't realize the error until the next morning. We also used the emergency cell phones for time, and we checked when it wasn't very necesary.