My First Golden Eagle

I was skiing in Germany for the first time on an exercise with the army called Ex Snow Queen. One day when I was taking the 'T' Bar up the mountain to do a ski run, one of my friends who was about five people ahead of me was shouting for my attention.

I saw him pointing skywards and there to my surprise was my first ever Golden Eagle soaring over head. I was so fixed on seeing the eagle that I lost my balance and fell over, in the process I took out the next twenty or so German skiers,.

They were not very happy with me, as they were all piled on top of me I was fighting to get them out of the way so I could get a better view of the eagle. Eventually I managed to the side and out of the way of the 'T' Bar to every ones relief, then I set out to make my way back down the mountain waist deep in snow the trek down was a real hard slog, it was well worth it for seeing my first Golden Eagle, I feel sure the Germans would not agree with me though.

Hay ho.

Photo: Birdmeister click on photo to follow link.

Change

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."

Buckminster Fuller

Light it up to Live... Jon Young @ the Art of Mentoring UK

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Free Sample Paint Cards...

Here is something I used to good effect in the past, free sample paint cards. I got a whole batch of these from B&Q's once, then I spent sometime cutting them down and then placed them all into a small container.

This idea was given to me by a friend, she was telling me that she uses where she works in a kinder garden, so I thought I would give it a go. I went out with one of the boys I use to work with for a nature walk.

I asked him to pick one of the cards from the container and I picked on as well. The aim was to try and find the colour we had just chosen in nature, once we had found it, we would either talk about how that felt, for example did it remind us of anything, what happened on the journey to finding that colour? Did we see any animals, birds or any interesting looking plants.

We played this game for hours before heading back to the school when we found a real deep orange in some rotten wood on the way back, we had given up on this colour earlier believing that we would not find it at all, because we had spent ages looking for it and could not find it anywhere.

Funny how things turn.

I am now using this as part of my Natural Awareness course where I can take it to a much deeper level, but what a great game for just having fun with kids and so cheap as well.

Try it, let me now how you get on.