#DOFE

[poppitron360]

Y’know what should be a thing?

Percy Jackson Duke of Edinburgh Awards

For the Americans:

The DofE award is a thing you can do at secondary school where they make you spend six months helping out in the community, and at the end you have to go on a two-day long orienteering expedition where you get thoroughly lost and soaking wet for a whole weekend and it’s miserable. You pay £150 for a certificate and some blisters. I did mine many many years ago, and it’s one of my biggest regrets. I swear, I had never wanted to die more than I did that weekend.

But if someone had told me that my expedition was actually a quest to save the world? That, no, we weren’t calling our supervisors for help because we got lost AGAIN, we were sending an Iris Message back to Camp? That the reason why it’s raining is because of angry gods fighting in the sky not because we live in fucking Britain and therefore it must be miserable weather in JULY? That we’re not just six losers lugging heavy backpacks around Somerset, but we’re actually lost in the woods somewhere in New Jersey and we’re never gonna make it to LA?!

I would have fucking ATE THAT SHIT UP!! (Even though at that point I hadn’t even read PJO).

Wouldn’t it be cool if we could have paid actors dressed as monsters to jump out at us and fight? Wouldn’t it be cool if, once we got back, they gave us some sort of trinket and said “congrats! You found the lightning bolt, you saved the world!”?

I feel robbed of this experience now.

[g-xix]

Cold DofE expedition yk

[parkercore-69]

everyone who watches Lord of the Rings and claims Frodo was whiny has clearly never been on a DofE expedition

[the-end-of-miky-melodic]

Lidičky je tu někdo kdo má nějakou zkušenost s DofE?

[the-chaotic-child]

some quotes from my dofe practice expedition :)

"pass me the orange"

"i can't pass you the orange its not mine"

"you know, im actually so annoyed about my porridge"

"why is it solid?"

"try one"

"is it dead?"

"its a squashie"

"no its a hardie"

"only problem is, I don't have my toothpaste "

"toby I don't think ur teeth r gonna fall out after one day"

"yes they will"

"i didn't brush my teeth at all when i was little. 6 yr old me didn't like brushing my teeth"

"yea and they fell out"

"huh"

"they fell out"

"hmm"

"and then god gave u a second chance"

"and i smashed it"

"wHat"

"yea look, my front teeth are chipped"

"oh. well i need to brush my teeth."

(i gave him my toothpaste and he ran to brush his teeth lol)

"angus is lost"

"at least we have food"

"oh look who's back"

"we were worried you died"

"..you could have checked on me?"

"trust me we cared but we didn't care that much"

"do you think this will taste like chocolate orange?"

"??"

"ive put pieces of my orange into the hot chocolate, and squished it all together"

"put the mini roll in too! pour the hot chocolate over it to infuse the flavour then squish it"

"oh yea!"

[HE STARTS POURING IT OUT BUT FUCKING LUMPS OF ORANGE KEEP COMING OUT EVERY SO OFTEN ND IT LOOKS DISGUSTING]

"okay! time to drink it!

bLEaghHgh"

"wAs iT niCe?"

"no."

"uhm guys. I can't find the oxidiser packet"

"are you sure there is one in yours [dehydrated meal]?"

"yes it says 'remove the oxidiser packet'"

(searches for like 3 minutes)

"do you want a pot to pour it out into?"

"yea."

(there is no oxidiser packet)

"nO packet!"

"you know, in angus's bag the packet said do not eat in so many languages that i literally found the french before the english"

"je ne suis pour manger"

"sounds about right"

"what if you didn't find the english and you ate it"

"oh yes, extra flavouring huhuhu"

"delicious ne pas mangey mangey"

"how far does it have to get to be your problem not mine?"

"can we play piggy in the middle?"

"yes that's a really good idea!"

(some crash bang falling noises)

"ow! RIGHT UR GETTING IT NOW"

(someone walks into a tree)

"there was a tree there"

"thanks" (sarcastic)

tHE NEXT PERSON CASUALLY PROCEDES TO WALK INTO THE TREE TOO

"he's gone barefoot into the toilets"

"oh. i had respect when we walked into the woods barefoot but the toilets..."

"yea, i don't want to touch his feet anymore"

"me nei- WAIT WHAT"

and a fuck ton more but i have fOrgotten so this is all you get for now :)

[good-usernames-were-taken]

when the dofe is dofe-ing

(I unlocked blisters on every toe, my hands are purple and wrinkly and look.. moldy, my hips and shoulder bones are blue from bruises, our tent flooded and matresses were floating, me and my friend had to share a sleeping bag because hers filled with water, nothing i own is dry, i also somehow got sunburnt, the light in my eyes has left me, and any mention of 'car park checkpoint' is enough to bring tears to my eyes)

[god-above-all]

anyone got any tips to learn polish?

i’m already doing spanish and french gcse (and ambitions to take them further) and speak english so i guess this will be my 4th, thinking about doing it for my dofe skill, i want to be a nurse and its the most common second language in the uk so im hoping it will help me communicate. just doing duolingo and falou atm, help me bc idk what im doing it would be really appreciated any tips and tricks

[thund3randrain]

I was actually enjoying day 3 of my gruelling, exhausting, murderous DofE camping trip during which I got no sleep, injured my shoulders, cried twice and contemplated throwing myself off the side of the mountain 9 times…

Until I fell and hit my head on some rock, causing me to need to be driven to the train station and failing the expedition

I can’t wait to do this again in the summer :D

[yawansomecheekinlad]

Duke of Edinburgh: An ✨experience✨

literally saw like 4 dead birds and a dead, half-eaten rabbit🤢

nobody wanted to make lunch in the middle of nowhere so we survived each day on sensation packets, coke cans and polos.

"guys...why does the whole tent smell like dog shit"

on the first day we got so lost that when we found where we were it was THREE KILOMETRES OFF OF WHERE WE THOUGHT WE WERE. Ended up walking for 10 hours when it should have been 6.

played smash or pass whenever we saw somebody drive past us

debated whether marrying your first cousin is a good idea🥴

my friend fell in a hole. I am being so serious. apparently we were walking through an abandoned mine shaft and she just fell and her foot got stuck in the hole😭

karaoke in the fields: featuring "Let It Go", "Bootylicious", "Hips Don't Lie" and "Sheila Ki Jawani"

convinced ourselves that our teacher was a djinn since he appeared behind us out of nowhere at one point

saw some of the most genuinely beautiful pieces of scenery, Grassington you are heaven to me💞

the wind was so terrible I nearly fell off of a mountain

had the JUICIEST gossip session eg somebody's relative found out her dad might not be her biological one and instead could be HER UNCLE.

friend chose to go into a river and she fell into it. we all laughed and recorded the dumbass😭

"hey let's unpack the centuries of generational trauma that we as young pakistani women are forced to carry as all our female ancestors did"

totally trespassed on numerous areas of land. apparently we all thought it was okay to just jump over fences if they were locked lol

THERE WAS NO SERVICE ANYWHERE WE COULDNT RING OUR MUMS TO CRY TO THEM ABOUT ALL THE TRAUMA WE WENT THROUGH😔

[y0url0calcryptid]

So as I've discovered, going on a camping thing is great and all, but watching marble hornets before going into the forest was the worst idea I've ever had.

So anyways blair witch project is next to watch tonight

[sillyengineerperson]

Guyyyys what meals are you supposed to have on DofE????

[tabbbbyyyy]

YALL I WAS ON A HILL WALK FOR TWO DAYS RIGHT AND IN BETWEEN WE CAMPED AT THIS SPOT THAT WAS ACROSS A RIVER FROM THIS CREEPY ASS WOOD AND YALL

LOOK AT THIS SHIT OK I KID YOU NOT 5 DEER SKULLS IN ONE SPOT AND PRETTY MUCH ENTIRE SKELETONS ARE YOU KIDDIND ME?!

It was 8ish at night and yall it was so dark I swear I was gonna get murdered there. We went through barely any of it cos we wanted to go back to the rest of the group and that forest was fucking massive dude. Welcome to Scotland at night I suppose

[lonelywoodlouse]

DofE wish me luck so I’m not trampled by a cow

[bookworms-haven]

Im realising that I really overcomplicated my Bronze DofE. This time round I’m volunteering at Brownies which I do anyway, running which I don’t need to rely on someone else to do, and reading which is something I do for over an hour each week!

Last time it took forever for me to do my sections because they depended on other people. This time I’m just doing what I enjoy!

[trans-autistic-and-miserable]

I had my DofE walk earlier this week and we stopped at a pub at one point. Me and my friend walked in and she asked where the toilets were and the person at the bar pointed to our right. She started walking so I started to follow her and then the person called out to me telling me "the gents are that way" pointing in the opposite direction and when I keep following my friend he disappears off around the counter. It was okay in the end because it turns out the disabled toilet was right next to the women's so I used that instead (but I hadn't been told where it was so I wouldn't have been able to use that as an excuse if confronted again). When I'm leaving the person is talking to someone else at the counter looking in my direction. They spot me so I keep my head down and leave as quickly as possible. I don't get why they had to have the toilets on different sides of the building. It was not fun.

[mosslistic]

Bro omg I did my DofE and like 5 cows started coming toward me and I jumped in a fucking river.