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My Experience on the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Bronze Award Expedition

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My friends and I before we set off for our expedition - we look happy and excited and we were! Hi this is my first ever blog and as a novice I am sure I will make some mistakes.  However, I really hope that people aged 13 - 25 who read this will have some patience with me, as I believe the contents of this post can provide some insight into the value of a Duke of Edinburgh Award for them. I am required to write this blog or have some form of presentation of the experiences I had on the expedition element of the DofE Awards so it is written for this specific purpose, however despite the mandatory need for the report I can confirm that the expedition though tough was a very exciting time for me and taught me many new skills. I am a student at Kantor King Solomon High School and have always been fascinated by the awards as my father had participated on the DofE awards previously. Whilst I was at an award ceremony for the Yoni Jesner Awards, I had learnt about an opportu