New Position, and Training to be a Ranger
No, I'm not dead yet, neither is the blog. I've just been on a Duke of Edinburgh training trip to Snowdonia.
In kind of a surprise, I've been made the Duke of Edinburgh Award Coordinator for my school, with the official reasoning being I just get on with work instead of complaining about it. So... the moral of the story is just get on with your work and you'll be rewarded?
I'm more than happy to do it, as it is effectively breaking a wall I never intended to on my way to building Warhammer 40K as a school tradition, and I'm really excited about multi-classing into Ranger. There's a lot of Dungeons and Dragons nerdage in my approach to this, so brace yourselves.
The Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) is an outdoor and general citizenship programme that student neophytes can learn hiking, mountaineering, camping and how to be a decent person. It's one of a few such organisations in the UK, the other two big ones being the Combined Cadet Force and the Scouts. DofE is the least militaristic of the three options, and perhaps the most independent as the Gold standard has you organising everything yourself.
The training trip was half level 1 adventure for new Duke of Edinburgh leaders (like myself), and also half training for far more experienced teachers looking to get their Mountain Leader qualification. To put it in easy to understand terms: Level 1 and level 15 Ranger respectively.Our school is lucky enough to have a few level 18 Rangers and one level 19, just a few more years mountainside experience from becoming an Alpine God.
Naturally, as a flabby neckbeard/physics nerd who bench presses d6 (the small ones too), I was very much at the bottom of the pile in terms of fitness and experience. I walk past the school climbing wall once a week... that is the extent of my Knowledge: Mountaineering.
So, naturally, for my first trip they decide to take me up the tallest mountain in Wales and pitch a tent on the summit during a hurricane.
More on that next time...
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In kind of a surprise, I've been made the Duke of Edinburgh Award Coordinator for my school, with the official reasoning being I just get on with work instead of complaining about it. So... the moral of the story is just get on with your work and you'll be rewarded?
I'm more than happy to do it, as it is effectively breaking a wall I never intended to on my way to building Warhammer 40K as a school tradition, and I'm really excited about multi-classing into Ranger. There's a lot of Dungeons and Dragons nerdage in my approach to this, so brace yourselves.
The Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) is an outdoor and general citizenship programme that student neophytes can learn hiking, mountaineering, camping and how to be a decent person. It's one of a few such organisations in the UK, the other two big ones being the Combined Cadet Force and the Scouts. DofE is the least militaristic of the three options, and perhaps the most independent as the Gold standard has you organising everything yourself.
The training trip was half level 1 adventure for new Duke of Edinburgh leaders (like myself), and also half training for far more experienced teachers looking to get their Mountain Leader qualification. To put it in easy to understand terms: Level 1 and level 15 Ranger respectively.Our school is lucky enough to have a few level 18 Rangers and one level 19, just a few more years mountainside experience from becoming an Alpine God.
Naturally, as a flabby neckbeard/physics nerd who bench presses d6 (the small ones too), I was very much at the bottom of the pile in terms of fitness and experience. I walk past the school climbing wall once a week... that is the extent of my Knowledge: Mountaineering.
So, naturally, for my first trip they decide to take me up the tallest mountain in Wales and pitch a tent on the summit during a hurricane.
More on that next time...
Thanks for reading.
If you liked what you saw, and you want to help out, please leave a comment. Sharing this with your friends, and following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ would also be hugely appreciated.
If you have anything you want me to look at, let me know in the comments below. I'll probably be able to write an article about that topic within a day!
If you want to support me directly, use the affiliate links below. I get a small percentage of purchases you make her, and you get cheaper miniatures! If you really love what I do here, you can make a one off donation at my PayPal, or become a true hero to table top education and make a regular donation to my Patreon. Every Little helps!
Having just been up Snowden in rather blustery conditions myself, well done! Love the blog, btw.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting! I've just uploaded the story of the camping night, and I'm glad you like the blog. Comments like this make my day!
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