About daring to be completely
who you are
About taking responsibility
for your own actions
About being a more honest
and realt human being
Be yourself
… then everything goes so
much easier, and things fall naturally in place.
Participants notesOn a trip with RAMP” One! Two! Three!” we shouted and threw ourselves in a mudhole we found by our main camp earlier today when we were running and plying around. It was so great! Me on my part couldn't stop laughing. We threw mud all around and tried to get up from the hole, but just kept sliding back into it instead. Afterwards we went down to the river to clean our bodies and our clothes. It was almost impossible, but at last we could hang up our clothes and start thinking about dinner. While we were splattering about some of the others had gone fishing, and they came back with lots of perch and trout that soon were sizzling on the bonfire. We used different herbs we found around us to give it some extra taste, and made an indian bread on the side (bannak). Yuuum. The food tastes the best after a long day out! The evening went by quite calm and we just sat around talking while we were making things. Some did forks, other cups, bracelets, scarfs or whatever their imagination could come up with. I love it when people tell about what they have done.. I think especially the stories about the most embarrassing things they have experienced...
There's a lot going on out here, I get to meet a lot of great people. Some
of them it feels like I've already known an eternity, even though it's only
been a week or so. But I guess I need to slip down in my sleeping bag now.
Tomorrow we are going to practice canoe rescuing, and it's going to
be so much fun!! My RAMP-experienceI came to hear about RAMP by chance three years ago, and I were immediately eager to find out more. After some phone contact with RAMPs leader I signed up for a 14-day trip in "the wilderness", and all of a sudden I were on a trip with lots of people I had never seen before, - and I who hadn't been on a trip in the forest since I was 8 years old.
The first thought was "help – scary!” The second thought was "cool!" I took it with a smile and let the days pass, and I must say I had lots of fun, despite of bad weather and a cold sleeping bag. Around the bonfire there sat lots of warm and kind people around me, with good spirits and a glimt in their eye. From the first moment on I was curtain that this was something for me; an exciting challenge! And weren't I right! Through my trips with RAMP I have received a whole new look at life and at the people that surround me, a greater specter of reality and understanding. I have had the most incredible experiences - both fun and sad, playful and right down serious, light and heavy, happy and even perilous. I have without much effort gotten the most incredible and fantastic experiences a human being can get, and have done experiences I hope many others will get the opportunity to bring with them in life. The great thing about RAMP, among other things, is that they don't follow any locked timetable, but creates the trip by participants, the weather and other important factors, and therefore is suitable for everybody. The trip becomes on the way, and no trip is the same. RAMP also lets the participants use their time to be creative and do things themselves. Games and fun is always in focus, and are probably some of the things one remember the best from the trips. The nice times around the bonfire and the unity. We make things together. We learn to know each other in a very unique way. We just have lots of fun together!
RAMP has become a great and an important part of my life and gives me a lot. I feel that RAMP has contributed to me finding more peace in myself. My reaction patterns, limits and other parts of me has fallen more in place. I fell in one way I have become more of an "adult", I can deal better with stressful situations, I take more responsibility and don't judge people as much by their first impression. And I have even managed to realize that one can't do everything in life all by oneself, and in the same way one can't be responsible for everything. And one doesn't have to be best friends with everyone... Be yourself, then most things go so much easier, and things fall more naturally in place. Even though this isn't always that easy to make out in practice. I have also found out that I feel safer on the world and my surroundings, and I have learned to deal with and accept things I couldn't before. Actually I have started to love what earlier used to hurt me. RAMP has in many ways made me a more free and loving person; that dares to be herself more and more, that dares to speak up when something is wrong. RAMP has offered me the finer things in life, where the human being and the nature is put in focus. By meeting people, attitudes, situations and the nature in this way makes me feel that I am something, that I can something, and that I mean a whooole lot! Join RAMP on one of their trips this summer – and you will experience something new and have more fun than usual...... 14 days in the wilderness with RAMP will make you get to know yourself better, as well as others and the nature.
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