Self portrait: 
Jonah Tarmu
Blog post #2
due 9.23.14
Maahi and rhegina Fro
Outward bound is a program that changed my life. Outward bound is a program that tests your willpower. They purposely make things harder to show that a person can handle more than they think. The particular program I was a part of was the kayaking program. And afterwords I never thought I’d want to get into a kayak ever again.
The program was two weeks and was more than I ever thought I could handle. It was two weeks of living in kayak. Of kayaking from island to island. Only stopping to sleep on islands, develop a team, and further develop ourselves.
The most important part of it to me was the time we spent developing ourselves. We had to spend about a day by our selves. sitting in one spot. only thinking. nothing else, no writing, no music, no human contact except when someone brought us food, and the slowly growing realization of who you were. For some, less horrifying than others. But only a few of us came back without tears running down our face. It was here I realized there was more and less to me than I thought. It was truly a strange realization to me to realize I was better than I thought and yet somehow not as good as I thought I was. It truly made me a better person.
Overall my experience with outward bound was a rewarding one. But it wasn’t until much later that I realized how much better that it made me. It must have been at the same time that I got back into a kayak.