Many childhood experiences have lifelong impression on people. Write an essay you describe a memorable childhood experience and explain its effect on your life.

I had many exceptional childhood experiences, one of the most memorable one that have lifelong impression on me is the outward-bound summer

camp

. Through

this

program, I learned problem solving skills, solving interpersonal conflict, and

time

management. It was the summer before my senior year in high school, I enrolled

to

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in

a summer

camp

, and it was an unusual

camp

.

This

camp

was held in a forest in Davis, California. Each camper teamed up with

two

other campers and required to stay in the forest with limited supplies for six nights. Apart from

this

, the coach assigned multiple tasks for us, and we had to complete each task in a pre-determined schedule to reach the final destination. Before I joined

this

adventure, I considered myself as an introverted person. I rarely made new friend easily, and I never stayed out from home. I started

this

camp

with full of fear and anxiety, but I experienced some changes after the

first

night.

At

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On

the

first

day of the

camp

, I met

two

of my teammates, Susan and Mary, and we were all very quiet at the beginning. After the briefing from the coach, we started our journey. By the

time

we arrived at the

first

check point, we had already walked ten miles. We felt extremely tired and hungry.

However

, we had to figure out how to cook in the forest without proper cooking tools/utensils. Susan suggested that we consume the canned

food

without cooking. Mary and I disagreed because we knew that if we finished the canned

food

at the early stage, we would run out of the

food

later on.

Instead

, we should find a way to cook the raw

food

. We had some conflicts, but we came up with a solution and cooked the raw

food

for our

first

meal. At that moment, I realized we had to think before acting,

otherwise

we wouldn’t be able to finish the whole journey. Shortly after the meal, we continued to walk because we had to reach the campsite before sunset. As we continued, we encountered multiple difficulties and we learned from the mistakes and arguments. After another ten miles of walking, we arrived at the

camp

site. We needed to set up our “home” there.

However

, we were exhausted and none of us were willing to set up the “home.” I encouraged myself by listening to my music, and I shared the music with the

two

girls. We spent about

half hour

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a half hour

doing nothing but just enjoying the music. Naturally, we felt our

energies

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energy

return and we started to build our “home” together. We knew that we had to finish the tasks before sunset and we had to utilize

time

wisely. After the

first

night, we solved different problems together, we learned the individual differences and became less conflicts, and we

also

used our

time

in an effective way. We overcame all the difficulties and completed the whole journey together. Today, I look back to

this

training program, I am still proud of myself and my

two

teammates. I learned how to come up with solution after the problem, the importance of understanding from

other’s perspective

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the other’s perspective

, and planning before taking action. These are all important skills and have lifelong impacts to my life. More importantly, I made

two

good teammates and they are my best friends now.