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

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

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

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a summer

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, and it was an unusual

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.

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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night.

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day of the

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, I met

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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

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we arrived at the

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

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

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

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at the early stage, we would run out of the

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later on.

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, we should find a way to cook the raw

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

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

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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

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

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, 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

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girls. We spent about

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a half hour

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

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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

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wisely. After the

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

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used our

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

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training program, I am still proud of myself and my

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

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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

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good teammates and they are my best friends now.