Fronter House Application

Frontier House
OFFICIAL APPLICATION
Family Name: The Landel Family

Occupations/Schools:
Jeff Landel: Whidbey General Hospital - Paramedic
Kathleen Landel: Mayors Assistant
Walker Landel: Student


Open answer questions (attach additional pages. All questions must be answered.):
What attracted you to this project?
Being outdoors, working hard to survive, finding ways to make make hard chores easy, building a life outside of the 21st century.

What hobbies and interests do you have?
Working, Woodworking, Outdoors, Camping, Hiking, Baseball.

What image do you have of pioneer living?
Hard work, surviving, Working for food and survival.

What's the most challenging thing you and your family (or group) have experienced?
Traveling to 38 states in 3 months in our motor home.

If you were chosen what do you think you would most miss about modern life?
My friends, 21st century clothes, cell phones.

What qualities do you and your family have that make you suited to this experience?
We all love to go camping, we work well outside, we can come together and get things done, were a strong family.

What skills do you have that may help you?
Wood working, outdoors skills, community skills, I am a hard worker.

What would you hope to get out of the experience?
Working better with my family, making a home and life out of nothing, surviving in the middle of nowhere for months and months with very little.

What do you think will be the most difficult challenge of pioneer life?
Building a house, growing food, getting ready for winter.

What skills would you like to learn from the experience?
I would work better with other people, better with outdoors, better wood working skills, work better with my family and my dad, build a home.

We'd like you to tell us:
What interests you about this project?
Being outside of the 21st century and in the middle of nowhere surviving with nothing.

Do you have any concerns about your participation?
I think it is going to be harder then it looks but if you work hard, stay warm, work well, get things done it will be fun in the end.

How much do you know about your family history -- do you have pioneer roots?
My moms family history goes back to kings and queens, I don't know about my dads.

How did you hear about Frontier House?
I watched the show in Mr. B's class!

Ski Bus.

This year over the winter I did the ski bus.

I went with a bunch of friends and had a really fun time.
I love to Snowboard and I am way better at it then Skiing.
We went to Stevens Pass every Saturday morning.
I had to wake up at 4:30am every Saturday to get ready and leave at 5:45am
Every day I went was really long and exhausting but more fun then I have ever had.
I got to hang out with my friends.
Listen to music.
Watch movies.
Learn better snowboarding techniques.
Eat good food.
Go on fun trails.
Get lost.
Find new trails.
Go into random parts of the woods.
I had a lot of fun and I think I am going to do it next year.
Anyone who is thinking about it should really consider doing it.
It is some of the most fun I have had.
There is a lot to do and even though it's a really long and exhausting day.
It is a TON on fun!

This is just to say.

This is just say...
I am sorry for not being there,
helping you with projects,
being there to help you with your problems,
making sure you are safe,
I was never really there for you,
like a bowling ball,
hitting only one pin at a time,

I fixed one problem at a time,
but I never could be the best,
never able to knock everything down,
never able to beat this game,
never able to fix everything,
never able to put it all back together