Manito-wish, Part II

Time to finish up the short bullet points of what went on in the week I was up at Manito-wish!

• Self-description.  There was a short exercise in which we moved along axes of a graph-like thing drawn on the ground to answer questions about our personalities.  I am an "analytical observer", which means I am in the quadrant that focuses on the end result and focus on the parts before the whole.  Another similar exercise placed us in various "comfort zones" for various situations.
• Answering personal questions.  One night near the end of the week, classes split off with their individual advisers to answer predefined personal questions in a circle.  My class was already very close, so we didn't open up too much more.
• High altitude elements. The last day was entirely comprised of activities going on at exceedingly elevated locations.  There was rock climbing, a "cat walk", a leap of faith off a telephone pole, and other very scary stuff.  I learned that I actually am afraid of heights.  Nevertheless, the catwalk was amazingly fun.
• Food poker at night.  The last night, the Rivermont chaperons taught everyone in the guys' cabin how to play Texas Hold'em, which we did using Ritz Bits as chips.  I did surprisingly well, staying in until there were only two people left: me and the main chaperon.  I had only 25 fewer chips (150 total), but the massive blinds combined with a terrible hand killed me.
• Canoeing on a large lake.  I had never been canoeing before, so I had some trouble, especially with the J stroke.  Thankfully, there was a Manito-wish staff member on board my vessel (which happened to be the only unnamed one) who was able to show me and my partner how to control the canoe's direction.
• Baking cake in fire.  A planning and teamwork activity had my class bake a cake using cake mix, logs, a spatula, and a bow drill.  It was also kind of a budgeting activity because we were given a fixed amount of currency to spend on extra supplies.  My roles were a bark gatherer and the bellows for the fire.  The cake tasted absolutely awful, but it was immensely satisfying to see it fully baked.
• Parodies of everyday games.  Warm-ups before actual activities had all the campers participate in variants of things like tag and rock-paper-scissors.  There was a strange version of freeze tag in which each freezable was Taylor Swift and the taggers were Kanye West.  There was a game that incorporated rock-paper-scissors as a means of "leveling up" to become various celebrities.  I guess the Manito-wish people like to add popular culture to their warm-ups.

There were probably other points of interest, but I'm having trouble remembering everything now.  All those days honestly felt like one.  There may or may not be a Part III depending on my mind's ability to recall things.