13 August, 2016 (Kolin O'Keefe)

First day of ECOEE, just arrived at Horn Field Campus at 1020. Our first thing on the agenda was a group activity/reflection facilitated by our grad assistant Ryan. We took a hike through the trails at Horn Field. Ryan asked each one of us to reflect and walk silently through the woods. When we made it to a bridge, he instructed us to find an object in the woods and told us to reflect on our biggest insecurity. When we made it back to that same bridge, he instructed us to leave our object we picked, explain its significance, and inform the group of our greatest insecurity. This was to signify the insecurities we leave behind on this trip. After this, we returned to the lodge to receive a debrief from Mindy about Horn Field expectations while we stay here. She also made a reference to how Jeff calls (or thinks) she is a bitch, and it was hilarious. Jeff also had a strange ass dream he told us about where Liv and I killed off our ECOEE members and stuck their decapitated heads in cabinets because they “annoyed us.” Rest assure, Liv and I will not be doing anything of the sort. By this time it was 1230 and time for lunch. Jeff went (into detail over all the different chores from cooks to cleaners and water monitors. He has a very specific method to the madness, but it seems to be a very productive way about making meals and clean up after. Got assigned individual tasks to complete throughout our couple of days here. Tomorrow, we get to go to Spring Lake and take the canoes out, should be fun! However, it seems like the tasks are never ending, but hopefully we will all see the light at the end of the tunnel soon. Pleasure to be the first to write in the journal.