#2 Monday Trip 25/1/16

Today was the second trip of 6 with the Norwegian students in Jegersberg. As with last week, we met outside Spicheren at 9:15 am and then after grabbing a piece of fire wood each, headed off to the same place we had been the previous week. As before, we did different movement activities to get warm as there was still plenty of snow around and the temperature was around 0 degrees so it wasn’t warm! Once we were all warm and ready to go, we were split into 4 groups and told we would be competing in different activities. The first that I took part in was the shelter building activity. We were giving some rope and a tarp, and the challenge was to build a shelter that would comfortably fit 4 full sized people in for the night and then we had to justify why we picked the location and the technique behind making it. We decided to place our tarp against a rock and then tied the other end to a couple of trees. However we realized afterwards that if the snow melted it would drip down the rock and straight into where we would be sleeping, so this was a fail however for me it was a learning curve and I would learn from my mistakes. The next activity was the relay races, we would pick one person to hop, one person to ski on one ski and two people would have to tie their legs to each other then try ski round the track that the students had set out. The 3rd activity was the snow building contest. We were giving half an hour to build the best snow sculpture in the given time and the Norwegians would judge at the end of the time. Our team decided that we would release the inner children in our and make a massive 6 foot penis sculpture. Although it didn’t win the overall competition I thought it was personally beautiful. The final activity was a blind fold competition, one person would spin round 10 times and then they were told by the leader which object they had to go pick up whilst blind folded so another person would have to guide them. I found this activity very funny as it ended up in people just being all over the place and generally just falling over a lot which is good to watch. Once again, we finished around 12pm and settled down to make some fires and have some hot dogs grilled over the fire using sticks we had found and sharpened with our knives. After sitting around for around 1 hour, it turned 1pm and most of the people again went off skiing on the tracks whilst I walked home after another fun day.