Last weekend we had a field trip for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. It was a 3 - 4 hour drive from our school and our first stop was a zip-lining course.
The biggest concern for one of my students was the disproportionality of the rabbit by number 4 to the person on the line between 1 and 2. So as you can see from the map, there were 9 zip-lines. I was able to get a picture and video of each student on the first few, then I also took videos while zip-lining a few times. All together the course took about 2 hours per group. We had 4 groups and one group went every 15 minutes. First we had to get into the back of a truck with benches, similar to a hayride. We had some tight corners and a lot of bumps going up, it was great! Here are some pictures of each group before they took off.
I missed one of the groups before take off... whoops. Here are a few pictures of the course.
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| Lucas is excited for the first line. He teaches a variety of music classes at BFS. |
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| This perfectly captures how every student in my group looked on their first jump - excited, but holding on for dear life! |
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| Great view - you can kind of make out the zip line on the middle right of the picture. |
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| The last 2 pictures were from our bus ride. There were mountains everywhere! |
We stayed overnight at a camp resort type of place. They had a cafeteria hall where we ate dinner, then breakfast and lunch the next day. Each room had 2 cabinets with bedding, there were no beds though. There were mattress pads about 1-2 inches thick, and then a blanket that was even thinner. Luckily the female chaperones wanted to have a slumber party in one room, so the three male teachers all got their own rooms. We stacked up the mattress pads and blankets and had decently comfortable beds.
The next morning we went to a "Challenge Course." There were rope obstacles that we all had to cross to get to the other side of a stream. Sadly none of the students fell in. The water was only a foot deep. On a different part of the course though, we had to swing from rope to rope to cross some water. A few students fell in here. =)
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| Anna also teaches several middle school subjects. |
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| This was my favorite obstacle. |
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| Nick is another middle school teacher at BFS. |
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| Here are some of the 6th graders trying to cross. |
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| Jihun is struggling while I catch up to him. |
We also had a bonfire and played some night games on Friday night. After the obstacle course we walked down to the other side of a campground to complete a maze made out of hedges. It was actually pretty difficult. Most of us cheated and crawled through the walls.
Overall it was a great weekend. Came home Saturday late afternoon around 4:30pm. I woke up Sunday sore from all of the activities we did... it felt good though. I miss that feeling. I was exhausted on Sunday. I took a few naps and did a little work for school and went to bed very early. I would definitely go back, but there is so much left for me to explore yet!
I think I'm going to hike up a mountain tomorrow, so maybe that'll be my next post.
From South Korea, over and out.
