Today, was the first day of endersession and It was pretty great I'm looking forward to it. My endersession takes place in a rock climbing gym called the grotto. I am working there for the next month. I love trying new things and I love acquiring new hobbies and rock climbing was something I had never done. I figured this would be a great way to learn, try something new, and fulfill the endersession requirements. It was a pretty good first day we mostly just got a tour of the place an intro to rock climbing without harnesses otherwise known as bouldering. Then had to make a presentation and give our own intro to bouldering. Because we were told we will be teaching a lot of new people how to climb and how to be safe.
Endersession week 2
So far endersession has been pretty great, I have gotten a lot better at rock climbing since the first day, when it comes to bouldering there are 18 levels all ranked from VB (beginner) to V0 and so on all the way up to v16. When I started I was only able to get to v0 but after a week I went up two levels I'm climbing v2's now. Our mentor encourages us to climb during our long breaks when were not cleaning or she has nothing left for us to do so that when we teach new climbers we really know what we are doing and they know to trust us. We've also been learning to do a lot of yoga and take yoga classes in the morning, so maybe by the end of endersession we could lead our own yoga class. Other than that most of what we've been doing is cleaning the weights and cleaning the old holds full of chalk.
Endersession week 3
Today was memorial day so we didn't have to work today. But all throughout last week was pretty much the same as the second week. We finally finished washing all of the old holds but this week the gym is setting up for a competition they are hosting. So they are going to take down most of the gyms current rock climbing routes and were probably gonna have to wash those ones as well. The picture below is the procedure to when they start taking down the routes to put up the ones for the competition. From what is sounds like it's going to be a pretty hefty week.
Endersession week 4
Well I stand corrected, last week was a super light week. We didn’t really have much to do it was super chill. Only really new thing that happened was all of the interns did their teacher visits. And we took some cool pictures together since it was Kenneth’s last week, he’s from high tech high Chula Vista. And well all I can say is he’s really lucky that was his last week because it’s barely been the first day of this week and I’m already exhausted from it. The competition is actually this Saturday so this week we are in charge of taking down all the holds. And I have to say it’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. In four hours we were only able to take down one side of the gym, we have to finish taking down the entire gym by Thursday and we have to wash all of the old holds that were up for weeks.