HMI Gap: Reflecting on Challenge & Reward
written by Jake Wang
Disclaimer: **If you’ve never experienced an HMI program before many of Jake’s references may leave you scratching your head…we’ve got a pretty impressive lexicon of random terms that eventually become like a second language to students**
From Jake:
We’re on the way back from the Kofa, our toughest segment yet. With challenges comes character growth, and we wrote a poem reflecting this experience.
Simple in means, rich in ends
Appreciating the canyon’s twists, turns, and bends
All belongings compressed into a 50 pound pack
Joys in the pricks, falls, and strains in the back
Time is warped into a stuff sack, jumbled and contorted
“3, 12 hour days is nothing” the mega-LODS retorted
No clean water, no service, no showers
Only whisper lights, simple meal, and “towers of powers”
Each cool group is an ecosystem, a microcosm of society
Control of power from the LODs, route changes filed with notoriety
Despite societal implications permeating throughout the group
They march onwards like a troop
With struggles in a harsh environment, we still full send
Simple in means, rich in ends
