Seventh grade challenge

This week at the Shalom Center, we hosted a group of Seventh Graders from the Christian School of Curico along with eleven parents.  It was amazing to watch the newly trained challenge course instructors working with this energetic and intelligent class which has been known at the school as a "difficult" group. With a student who has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair, a half dozen diagnosed as hyperactive but taken off their meditations to go to school, and another with Asperger's syndrome, our greatest troubles came from overbearing parents!  The kids were fantastic!

This is the first time we have had a participant in a wheelchair at the Shalom Center, and even though we don't have the trails or the equipment for it, this young man with his good humor and wit, was the perfect introduction.  Thanks, Mauricio, we learned so much from you!