This post is going to quickly cover last weekend and then a little more about this weekend.
Last Weekend
It was Support Staff Day!!! This is the day that the whole school does all the cooking, cleaning, and washing instead of our Support Staff. The Support Staff get to come to school as our guest. They are served a very big meal, and we have tons of fun activities. I got to work with the kids of the Support Staff. We played tons of games! Then I got to serve lunch with some of the other staff members. It was great to see the smiles of the people that serve me everyday from just being served lunch. A few of them have come up to me later and said thank you and they had a great time.
This Weekend
We went camping. Now when I say camping you may be thinking "ohhh lets go to the lake". No that is not what we did. Our school bus drove all the of Std 5-6 boys and girls and 8 staff members/IGs for about 1 hr. Then we all got out and walked for 1 hr to get to the camp site. This is not just a normal walk but we are talking trekking in the jungle. Now to be honest most of the time we were on a really dusty dirty road, but we did go up and down multiple trails through the mountains. It was HARD! Thankfully no one got hurt and we made it to the camp site in great time. I got to sleep in a tent with another staff girl, and then the kids slept all over the camp site in either a dorm or huts. This camp site was amazing. The food was super fresh, and tasty. Now when I say fresh I mean they were pulling the live chickens off the truck with out luggage out first day there. The site was so high up that you could drink the water straight from the tap...which you normally can not do here in India. Now I do have to say that we weren't ruffing it completely. We did have bathrooms/showers.
The showers were interesting because we had to boil water in an old boiler by putting a fire under it and waiting till the water got hot. Then you had to put the boiling water in the bucket you see in the picture, and then at cold water to it to wash. The bathroom as you can see is a squatty potty. You basically do you business then you fill the same bucket up with water and run it down the potty. It is very interesting to use. We also had a wonderful lake to swim in. It is actually used to generate power for parts of India, but it is also great to swim in. One thing that was really great this weekend was each dorm got to go on a Gorge Walk. There is a nice river that flows just below the camp site, and we went trekking through it. I did really good to stay dry for awhile, but then we hit a point that it was waist deep water on me and no other choice but to get in. At one point we had to get up this rock face, but it was really slick and wet. One of the girls in my dorm was like Miss Mel(this is what they call me here) give me your hand I will pull you up. I kinda had to laugh, because she is one of the smaller girls in the dorm, and did not understand that I would pull her into the water if she tried to help me. So after convincing her of this she finally moved and let me climb up myself.
One of the things the kids like the most about camping was the mud bath. There is a natural spring under the ground that keeps this one area always wet and muddy. So the kids would run as fast as they could then jump into the mud bath. They came out covered from head to foot. Another thing they liked was a late night walk in the woods but we had no torches(flash lights), and we just let the moon be our light source. It was amazing. Since we were so far out the light pollution was super low so you could see soooo many stars. After we walked for awhile we stopped and laid on the beach of the lake and talked of the Father. We told the kids about how he knows each star by name, and that yet he still loves us to send his son. It was wonderful to just talk to them about the Father.
Well all good things must come to an end, so we all had to pack up and trek out of the camp site. The walk back was just as HARD as the walk in, but we all made it back safe and sound. After we got back I had a nice bucket bath here at school, and then went to YF meeting here. It was just fun to hang out with the students the whole weekend.
Last Weekend
It was Support Staff Day!!! This is the day that the whole school does all the cooking, cleaning, and washing instead of our Support Staff. The Support Staff get to come to school as our guest. They are served a very big meal, and we have tons of fun activities. I got to work with the kids of the Support Staff. We played tons of games! Then I got to serve lunch with some of the other staff members. It was great to see the smiles of the people that serve me everyday from just being served lunch. A few of them have come up to me later and said thank you and they had a great time.
This Weekend
We went camping. Now when I say camping you may be thinking "ohhh lets go to the lake". No that is not what we did. Our school bus drove all the of Std 5-6 boys and girls and 8 staff members/IGs for about 1 hr. Then we all got out and walked for 1 hr to get to the camp site. This is not just a normal walk but we are talking trekking in the jungle. Now to be honest most of the time we were on a really dusty dirty road, but we did go up and down multiple trails through the mountains. It was HARD! Thankfully no one got hurt and we made it to the camp site in great time. I got to sleep in a tent with another staff girl, and then the kids slept all over the camp site in either a dorm or huts. This camp site was amazing. The food was super fresh, and tasty. Now when I say fresh I mean they were pulling the live chickens off the truck with out luggage out first day there. The site was so high up that you could drink the water straight from the tap...which you normally can not do here in India. Now I do have to say that we weren't ruffing it completely. We did have bathrooms/showers.
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| This is our bathroom and shower room |
One of the things the kids like the most about camping was the mud bath. There is a natural spring under the ground that keeps this one area always wet and muddy. So the kids would run as fast as they could then jump into the mud bath. They came out covered from head to foot. Another thing they liked was a late night walk in the woods but we had no torches(flash lights), and we just let the moon be our light source. It was amazing. Since we were so far out the light pollution was super low so you could see soooo many stars. After we walked for awhile we stopped and laid on the beach of the lake and talked of the Father. We told the kids about how he knows each star by name, and that yet he still loves us to send his son. It was wonderful to just talk to them about the Father.
Well all good things must come to an end, so we all had to pack up and trek out of the camp site. The walk back was just as HARD as the walk in, but we all made it back safe and sound. After we got back I had a nice bucket bath here at school, and then went to YF meeting here. It was just fun to hang out with the students the whole weekend.
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