The tech-free challenge

Before the challenge
I plan on doing a mix of 1900(level 5) and 1850(level 6). I will cook my food on the fire area I have prepared with fuel and I can filter the rain water in various containers and buckets that have collected water. I will be giving up running water, electricity for cooking ( stoves). I might not give up flashlights. I anticipate that I will want to eat food other that hot dogs for a day. It won't be too hard. It will just take a bit more effort to prepare food especially if it is raining. I plan to do what I usually do with the exception of some essential modern conveniences. I hope to learn how to build fires better, how to cook on fires better and of course to appreciate even more the technology that we use daily. I plan to do this on Monday, Columbus day.

During the challenge
I wasn't able to do the level of the tech-free challenge that I anticipated I would because of the the amount of homework I did the day before, almost none. So I ended up doing all my homework Monday. So I ended up doing the challenge on Thursday at the 1995 (level 1). My first impulse to use technology was to use my email. Second to listen to music on Pandora. I listened to a CD instead. I was hoping not to use the internet and I did, mostly except for in class thursday. We did blogging so I used the internet. Besides that I didn't use the internet.

After the challenge
The tech-free challenge was not hard. It would have been harder if I had gone with my original plan. I wish I did the harder challenge, I could have if I did my homework the day before. So I could prepare my food on a fire. This would have been different if I had continued for a week or a month. Instead of emailing people I would use the phone, or wait until the next time I saw the person to communicate with them. Or I could use snail mail. I learned from this challenge that it is easy to take for granted things we use all the time like the internet.