Activity Week (1)

It's been several days since the last time we posted anything on our blog. The main reason is that we have been out of town for Activity Week. This is a chance for students to get off campus for a week and do some learning outside of school. We accompanied the sixth grade class to the Rishikesh area to do some "camping" and adventure sports activities. We started on Monday morning at 10:30. This allowed our students to sleep in so they were prepared for their 4 hour bus journey. Luckily, we were able to stop for lunch along the way.

We finally made it to our first camp. It was named the Himalayan Bear Stream camp for obvious reasons. You may have noticed the quotation marks used above around the word camping. The term was used very loosely during this activity week. The natural setting was very beautiful, but the tents were a bit too comfortable to truly be called camping.

Each of the tents had cots in it that were fairly comfortable. We also had a bathroom attached to the tent. There was a western style toilet, a sink, and a shower for each of us. They even provided soap, bedding, and towels for us.

When we arrived at the camp, we took a few minutes to unpack and then went for a short hike. We had to cross the stream and climb up the hill on the other side to get to a small village.

As you can see from the picture below, the residents of the village came out to see what this group of 30 kids was all about. The cows also seemed quite interested in us.

When we got back to the camp, we had a very nice dinner of pasta. Again, we were definitely not roughing it, but it was a nice meal after a long day of traveling.

We also played some games and sports to pass the time before the staff at the camp set up a "merry campfire" for us.

Overall, it was a wonderful start to activity week. As we work our way through the pictures and videos that we took, we will add some more updates about our other activities from this past week.

Dave and Beth