Phew. What a week. 5 days of camping with 25 year 7 students. It was fun, kind of. We canoed, abseiled, hiked, camped out, built rafts (which fell apart fairly quickly), played games, rode mountain bikes and roasted marshmallows. It was fascinating standing back and watching them interact, try to make sandwiches (seriously parents, please teach your kids how to make their own sandwiches) and ride bicycles (yep, 3 out of my 25 could not ride a bike).
I also learnt a bit about myself - I have little tolerance for homesickness - I feel like such a meanie but in the end I just had to say in not so many words, "get up, get on with it, it's the only way the end of the week will come quicker" and on the last night when there were still sniffles, "go to sleep, you're going home tomorrow, toughen up". I may not have actually said 'toughen up' but boy I thought it. Home now though and just working on catching up on sleep.
Think we might be finally getting carpet in our bedrooms next week sometime. Yay!
Oh, and that adventure race we went in for A's birthday...our team came 3rd in the mixed category and 11th overall. Not bad huh? I am still covered in bruises from tubing down the river and the bike riding was super hard and we got lost once but it was so much fun and A loved it. Result!
Hope all is well!
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