Ropes Course

How are you doing? I'm doing very well. I just recently attended a ROPES course, for RLS 122 class, at CSU Sacramento. At first, I wasn't really looking forward to attending the course because it was on a Sunday morning but as the day progressed my attitude did a 180. We started the day, by doing some group activities that helped people become comfortable and have a good time. Then we broke up into smaller groups of about 9 or 10. In these smaller groups, we played games to learn each the names of our team members. I really enjoyed this because it gave me a chance to meet some new people and learn their names. The point of the game was to learn the names of my team members but also I felt it was first step towards getting to know each other better and becoming comfortable in our environment. Being comfortable would then allow us to have more fun while we participated in the activities. After that we then moved on to accomplish a task that involved using planks and preset cement blocks to get from one side of a "river" to another. The "river" was fake, but this activity required the team to work together and be creative to solve the problem of crossing the river. After these team building activities we got to use the ROPES course. The course consisted of a rock climbing wall, a cargo net, the leap of fate, and a tight rope. The two activities I participated in were the cargo net and the leap of fate. The leap of fate required climbing up a tree and jumping off a platform. Of course, we did this all while being harnessed and roped up. I really enjoyed the leap of fate because for a few seconds it felt like I was free-falling. I think by doing the team building activities it made the climbing activities funnier and helped people make new friends. I have to admit, Jas that I wasn't too happy about attending this Ropes course. Before attending the ropes course I did a Leisure Motivation Assessment, this test helped me set up my goals and expectations towards the course. Some of my expectations got confirmed, however, most of them were totally different than what I expected. Before the course the motivation assessment showed that building friendships and assisting others were not motivations that I thought were not important or meaningful during the ROPES course but after completing post-ROPES motivation assessment I realized that these motivations were highly important to my positive experience. I think getting