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Ashley's American Adventures
hello again. so much to tell again. but so little time.
i signed up for doing climbing wall training yesterday. so i spent all day being trained on the programme. i think that was the best day so far. it usually takes 5 days to train- but we only had 5 hours - so it was like information overload. so i am now qualified to teach - the climbing wall, zip wire, leap of faith, cross wire, and many other climbing activities. its so cool. i did better that others who have been climbing for years - i got to the top of the advanced wall - where some of the instuctors couldnt hahaha. i spent all day outside - and got sunburnt quite badly - i forgot my suncream. oops!
so lastnite we went down the road just off camp again - where some of us make a camp fire in the woods and sit around chatting. its brilliant. its awesome walking around at night time because all the fire flies are out and glow up the space around you - like christmas tree lights.
today (friday), i had a department meeting again, then iv been planning my prime activities for my kids coming. im starting up a consevation project - need to think of a cool name for it though. and im also doing the magazine design and photos. then for another prime - ill be off outside instructing the rope course. im going to try and take as many oportunities to go outside as possible - because it would be pretty rubbish is i had to stay inside everyday. for daily activities - i was thinking about - writing diaries with the kids, listening to story tapes by the lake, guiding nature trails (there are so many interesting animals here - keep seeing woodpeckers, chipmonks, fireflies, and hearing the bears in the woods). i am so lucky to be waking up everyday to such a beautiful surrounding. i just sit sometimes - and look around me - take it all in.
iv got 3rd june off - and my best friend in camp, philipp for germany - and ashleigh from new jersey, and i are going on a road trip. we are going to travel to new york for the day. eeek i cant wait. it will take about 2hours each way - but that is classed as really close here.
iv been practicing my german with philipp - he said i had a great german accent - was very impressed - so i may be fluent in german by the time im back in the UK.
today also - the academic department have put together a short film for advertising this area. we had to do some stupid things and make a fool of ourselves, but who cares!
we have a staff party tonight - we are being taken out some place - so that should be cool. its phils birthday today - so we might rename the staff party to 'phils birthday bash' instead.
right - im off to do some research for my lesson plans.
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