Wolf Howling Research Paper

Wolf Howling My life has been marked by the constant desire to place myself in unfamiliar situations and push myself well outside of my comfort zone. This is one of the many reasons I found myself at Conserve School during the second semester of my junior year. Conserve School has been the ultimate adventure of my youth so far, a semester school squashed up against the border of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, surrounded by towering trees and dotted with glittering lakes. It was in the nervous, hectic, first week of Conserve that I signed up for an activity that the science teacher had organized. It was night time cross country ski to go wolf howling. I was excited, the prospect of howling into the forest and hearing wolves howl back was too good an opportunity to pass up, especially because the wolves would go into denning season soon and it would be our only opportunity during the semester to try it. However, there was an obstacle, I didn’t really know …show more content…
However, it soon became apparent that the gap between me and the others was growing, and as that gap spread, my breathing became more labored. This wasn’t an unfamiliar situation for me, I have a bit of a penchant for getting myself into situations where I am in over my head, physically, academically and socially. Unfortunately, I was worried that I might be on the verge of an asthma attack, and my inhaler gotten misplaced in the process of packing and was currently being shipped up to me. So, by the time we reached our first pit stop to howl for wolves, I was gasping for breath. My face was red with exertion and embarrassment. I wanted to be able to keep up, I didn’t want to be the back of the pack. When the art teacher offered to escort me back to my dorm, I shook my head, I wanted to salvage what pride I had left, I wanted to have this

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