Middle schoolers experience a Joshua Tree camping escapade

Olivet Academy Riverside, educating kindergarten to high school, had a fun and exciting field trip from April 17-18. Students from 7th to 9th grade went on their third field trip this school year by camping, the first overnight trip for Olivet Academy. We were given lots of time to prepare as we were anticipating the trip for weeks. We were all very excited and eager to begin with everything necessary for the trip, such as packing, practicing, writing our compositions, and creating our ecology guides. We practiced our tent setups in preparation for the field trip, while our young schoolmates swarmed like moths to a flame and questioned everything we did. Our teacher, Ms. Sarah Ahrens, was well versed in the outdoors, having once been the Executive Director at the Boojum Institute, a nonp