Each year, more than half of our students rely on scholarships or financial aid to help them be Outward Bound.
My name is Julie Kuper, and I participated in the Hurricane Island Outward Bound Spring Break Program in March of 2013. I did not know what to expect of its activities and expectations, how I was personally going to handle those expectations, or who the people were that I would be spending every second of every day of the next week with. Needless to say, it was quite a surprise and quite an adventure.
This trip broke the barriers we all live in, in our normal, day-to-day lives. Sometimes, at evening meetings or when we were getting in our sleeping bags under the tarp on the boat, someone would say, “Good night, I love you guys.” It was a joke at first, but I truly believe we all began to mean it. This is what happens when you learn to work really well with a group of people; when you must look to them in order to complete numerous tasks in a period of time, and when you must depend on them for your own success.
I learned so much about myself, and came home more confident than I have ever been in my life because I was able to conquer some of my greatest fears while on this trip. I will forever remember this trip because it made such a significant difference in my life – I have conquered the ocean and I have conquered myself, but it feels like I have conquered the world.
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2013 Scholarship Fund
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Camden, ME 04843