We had another gorgeous day out at Pacific Spirit Park, the fog brightening up throughout the day and sunshine peeking through the trees by the afternoon. I'm sorry for the confusion about the dates. The program usually runs in the first weekend of the month, but since the last month was the start of a new year and people were on holidays, I pushed everything back a week to accomodate that. The next session is on March 2nd.
We worked on bow drill kits for the first part of the morning, played around with a couple of primitive hunting methods and started looking a little more in depth at animal tracks and gaits. We also played some of the most intense and funniest blindfold tag games I have ever participated in. Blindfold games are a great way of tuning into using our other senses. As humans, our eyesight is our dominant sense and when we can see we tend to pay far more attention to our sight rather than what we hear, smell and feel. It's great to see the intensity and skill level of these games pick up as we learn to rely more on our other senses.
Just a reminder for everyone to bring their knives and bow drill kits out for the next class - Im looking forward to seeing you all there.
Cheers
Danielle
Austin was only one of two students in the class on Saturday. He, too, really enjoyed the blindfold games and described some of his strategies to me. For instance, he would sigh, then ever-so-quietly tiptoe away from where he was standing. The person trying to reach him, would move to the region from where the sigh originated, and only find empty space! She started to suspect that he had put the other player up to sighing to trick her.
