Four Days at AC: Summarisation Required.
Monday
The week started off in bliss, literally. After sweet perseverance over the last couple of weeks from my seemingly addicted roommate-Chloe from France, I finally succumbed to trying Meditation.We had been invited to join a meditation session with my Maths teacher and three friends, so there I was, at 7AM on a dreaded Monday morning, learning of my seven Chakras and finding awareness. Afterwards, Frederik from Germany, Chloé, Asbjørn and I had fruit and Danish homemade bread for breakfast with a rare sense of tranquility around us. Not your typical start to a new week, but then, the word ‘typical’ has adopted a new definition since arriving to Atlantic College just over a year ago.
History- Weimar Republic and Hitler’s Rise to Power, was it inevitable?
English- Othello, plot of the play
Assembly- Your standard SAT/Early Application/University announcements, thanks to staff on Challenge Camp, students in Diploma Period and congratulations on our Inspection last week. Next, the students are given the stage. A promising 20 minutes (not so standard) but we learnt that October 1st was both the Chinese National Day/63rd Birthday and the Nigerian Independence Day. Therefore, two beautiful National Songs were sung. Platform 6 makes the announcement of the Gender and Sexuality Week, next week; find your dates for the 19% Ball People! Newsflash- China and Japan island conflict to be discussed. Corpus Juris: Use force to Protect Human Rights Abroad. The first Concert of Autumn term is starting on Wednesday- Chopin and Beethoven played by Emma from Canada… and so on and so on. It’s challenging to even keep up with announcements, yet alone do everything that is offered.
Geography- Permafrost and its impact on Human Activity
Environmental Systems and Societies- Biodiversity and Conservation verses Preservation
After Codes are done, early lunch commences with Shana from California, Isabelle from the Netherlands and Mohammad from Palestine… again, ‘typical’.
Ethical Felt Design- My afternoon activity, led by a professional Felter called Clare Cawte, consists of designing and creating something from Merino and the local AC wool. Obviously, I’m attempting a scarf to keep my island-loving neck warm this winter. The session consisted of me making samples of braiding the wool with yarn, thatching it together and then rubbing it with warm soapy water and bubble wrap to change it into felt. Absolute madness I tell you.
Children’s Charities- That evening I went to the Activity that I lead with two co-years, Tofunmi from Nigeria and Gerwil from Namibia. We were wrapping shoeboxes for the upcoming Christmas Shoebox appeal that is held every year as part of our Activity for Samaritan’s Purse. After one Christmas song (which I thoroughly enjoyed) we quickly let Ophelié from Mauritius be the DJ.
Showering- Right before Check-In, ‘Ninja’ style-running through the rain I rushed to Whittaker to wish Alice from France a happy birthday, as she had just been thrown into the Outdoor Pool, as is tradition the day prior to your 18th Birthday.
Tuesday
That afternoon I led an Atlantic Outdoor Service session along with Oli from Hong Kong, Shaan from Zambia and Sara from Jordan. We dressed the local school group (of eight students about ten years olds) into overly-sized orange jumpsuits (prisoners), attaching them together and proceeded to take them through a Ropes Course where they had to use team-work to get through the various obstacles. Not only was it entertaining to watch as a ‘security guard’, I loved it at the end when one of the little boys named Logan who at first refused to go through the last tunnel, but after encouragement from his class mates went through, with a look of extreme pride on his face afterwards.
Wednesday
Theory of Knowledge-
In class we ventured to the Great Hall in the castle where we looked at a predominantly English society and were given various situations/characters to which we had to decide on whether we would be permitted/accepted to do certain things (such as adoption, attain a mortgage, health insurance) - a realisation of the many discrepancies and restraints still held in our society. We were then told to choose three sports, religious and political leaders off the top of our head. The scary realisations of how many of these people are men, and how we are almost ‘programmed’ to think this way. I really do love ToK classes; it’s the most ideal way for all of our cultures to discuss our views and perceptions.
Dinner- Jason from Greece promised me over a month ago he would make me Greek food. So I headed off to Tice for some Saganaki and Dolmathakia, and the only thing I knew how to spell – Greek Salad! It was delicious and a great way to bond with one of my First Years.
Evening- Computer Lab for some more studying, this time on the LNAT exam I plan to take this Saturday. Joy. Nice interruption by learning about what Dumie is doing for his Extended Essay, about the Ethnic Violence in his home, Zimbabwe… typical.
Thursday
Once in the two years the English Language A students go to Stratford to watch a Shakespeare play. October 4th was our day! One hundred and fifteen students left AC at 8:00 in the morning to watch the Tempest, a matinee performance. We arrived at 11:30am and were given an hour to walk around and explore. I got to see the birthplace of Shakespeare! The performance was brilliant, it took me a while to get used to the language and after a few puzzled glances between Liz from Canada and I, we (mostly) kept up!
Back to AC in time for Open House, Apple-Cinnamon Cake and Apple Cheesecake from the ripe apples in the orchard, along with our Norwegian house-parents mugs filled with especially strong coffee and tea. It’s such a cosy place to unwind after hectic days and catch up to my ‘Morgannwg Family’.
I’m exhausted and still making a mental check list of the next few days and what must be done, but thinking about everything tends to make me overly-excited.
It’s chaotic. It’s eccentric. It’s amazing.
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Friday, 5 October 2012
Friday, 28 September 2012
Challenge Camp!
AH!
What an unexpectedly great time! To be completely honest I was quite apprehensive about camping for three nights… My experience of camping in actual tents is one night on a Duke of Edinburgh bronze award in Cayman, where I didn’t manage to put the pegs in properly and got hit throughout the night. This was much better.
We left at 2:30 on Monday afternoon, about a two hour drive across the border near to Gloucester. As we were in a 60-seater bus, and the other group went in mini-vans we saw them for a brief 10 minutes as we switched over. We tried to hear some advice of what was to come, catch up on our past weekend at AC. Even in three days, it feels like a reunion.
Once we got there we were given a mat and a sleeping bag to put in one of the three tents for the girls (guys had another three). Apparently the other group had to set the tents up, which luckily we didn’t. Out first ‘challenge’ was making dinner for our group.
Overall our group was great at cooking. Sugar, from Mongolia was head chef, Abenezer from Ethiopia a superb Sous Chef, Daniel from Gambia was very good at rationing the food… and well Nicole (from Cameroon) and I managed washing up and getting all of the cutlery ready. What a team. They were all really considerate about my veggie diet, so every meal they chopped and fried the vegetables and gave them to me with the side before adding the canned meat (which looked way yummier, btw). So night 1= rice, night 2=couscous, night 3= noodles: with peppers, celery, carrots, onion and corn. MMMMM.
Every night we tried to have a fire… not too much success. The wood was too damp, the ground to wet… it just wasn’t going to happen. Either way we had check-in at 9PM by the fire. After that all the girls just went to bed. The first night was the hardest to sleep. I was SO COLD. My toes felt stuck together. My scarf as a pillow just wasn’t very comfy. Thankfully it got better every night, possibly as I wore more and more layers each time… and cuddling more with Amy from England and Laura-Bethia from Holland.
ACTIVITIES:
The first day we did Orienteering in the morning with Nick Janvier. After about an hour of explaining the course and the different sites, practicing using the compass and bearing we went off in partners to find 16 points. As a joke Nick insisted on pairing me with Abenezer. Not only does he also go by Abe which made things confusing, but he happens to be an extraordinary runner, on the Ethiopian National team for two years prior to AC. So there I was puffing besides this guy who was basically in a light prance. We had a great time though. He would hold my hand every time we went down a steep muddy side, even offering to put me on my back if it got too tough. Bless him.
That afternoon we did ‘Survival’. Thank goodness because I was exhausted. A local from the area named Steve had us make a shelter from the wood around us, build a fire, chop wood, and lastly cook some delicious bread on a stick as we did for our house bonfire about a month ago.
The next day was wet. Very wet. It was our off-site day. About a 20 minute drive away we did climbing and caving. Two things that I have already done with AoC. Look who sounds experienced all of a sudden. What is happening? Anyways I climbed the rock and Abseiled down, at the time telling Simon that there is no way I would do things like this if I wasn’t at AC, which is one of the reasons I’m lucky to be pushed in this way- mostly mentally. The rest of the climbing session I helped belay, and laughed with Chikara, my very own Japanese ninja.
After eating lunch in the entrance to a cave I kitted up to go inside. This cave was very different to the one that we went in during AoC summer as it was dry. Which made me superbly happy. Meditating in ultimate darkness, wiggling and finding our way without any lights on, allowing our touch to become so much more essential… nothing to complain about there! We even made out flags for the flag parade that evening in the cave. Group E started as eggs and became Eagles. Crazy stuff.
BTW! There were bathrooms, about a five minute walk away. The showers were low pressure and it wasn’t luxurious even by AC standards- but it was manageable. Not to worry my friends.
The last day we were meant to do Mountain Biking and then Canoeing. However this didn’t quite happen… I was all kitted out for Mountain Biking, borrowing someone else’s leggings as they were already dirty, helmet on, gloves secure. However Audrey’s chain broke within five minutes, and I went back with her. By the time we were back we wouldn’t have been able to catch up. So instead Audrey from Austria, Sara from Wales (but lived in so many cool places like Kenya) and I decided to take a walk. We basically just kept asking random questions, from favourite book to who you admire most walking upwards for half an hour and then turning back. As you can imagine this meant we weren’t paying the most attention… We only got perfectly lost to arrive back on the campsite at the same time as the bikers. Phew. My heart wouldn’t have been able to handle much more than that.
Then that afternoon we were meant to go canoeing on the rapids. However this had been cancelled the previous day as well, as with all the rain, there were no rapids- just very fast water. Not safe. I wasn’t too disappointed though, I didn’t have an intense urge to put on a wetsuit for my last activity before heading home. Instead we went ‘Gallivanting with Gareth’ (which that morning was ‘Roaming with Robbie’). It was another walk, another chance to talk to people I hadn’t had a chance to much before camp. Daniel and I compared home for quite a while, and then Karabo from South Africa beat-boxed for me the majority of the way back.
And then back to AC. Exfoliation, Cream, Floss, and dry socks. Bliss basically. In Open House I wore my wounds with pride (which included three pretty massive bruises on various areas of my legs, midge bites and a tad bit of sunburn from that day). Let’s just say that I wasn’t looking to the nines, besides my smile.
Challenge completed.
What an unexpectedly great time! To be completely honest I was quite apprehensive about camping for three nights… My experience of camping in actual tents is one night on a Duke of Edinburgh bronze award in Cayman, where I didn’t manage to put the pegs in properly and got hit throughout the night. This was much better.
We left at 2:30 on Monday afternoon, about a two hour drive across the border near to Gloucester. As we were in a 60-seater bus, and the other group went in mini-vans we saw them for a brief 10 minutes as we switched over. We tried to hear some advice of what was to come, catch up on our past weekend at AC. Even in three days, it feels like a reunion.
Once we got there we were given a mat and a sleeping bag to put in one of the three tents for the girls (guys had another three). Apparently the other group had to set the tents up, which luckily we didn’t. Out first ‘challenge’ was making dinner for our group.
Overall our group was great at cooking. Sugar, from Mongolia was head chef, Abenezer from Ethiopia a superb Sous Chef, Daniel from Gambia was very good at rationing the food… and well Nicole (from Cameroon) and I managed washing up and getting all of the cutlery ready. What a team. They were all really considerate about my veggie diet, so every meal they chopped and fried the vegetables and gave them to me with the side before adding the canned meat (which looked way yummier, btw). So night 1= rice, night 2=couscous, night 3= noodles: with peppers, celery, carrots, onion and corn. MMMMM.
Every night we tried to have a fire… not too much success. The wood was too damp, the ground to wet… it just wasn’t going to happen. Either way we had check-in at 9PM by the fire. After that all the girls just went to bed. The first night was the hardest to sleep. I was SO COLD. My toes felt stuck together. My scarf as a pillow just wasn’t very comfy. Thankfully it got better every night, possibly as I wore more and more layers each time… and cuddling more with Amy from England and Laura-Bethia from Holland.
ACTIVITIES:
The first day we did Orienteering in the morning with Nick Janvier. After about an hour of explaining the course and the different sites, practicing using the compass and bearing we went off in partners to find 16 points. As a joke Nick insisted on pairing me with Abenezer. Not only does he also go by Abe which made things confusing, but he happens to be an extraordinary runner, on the Ethiopian National team for two years prior to AC. So there I was puffing besides this guy who was basically in a light prance. We had a great time though. He would hold my hand every time we went down a steep muddy side, even offering to put me on my back if it got too tough. Bless him.
That afternoon we did ‘Survival’. Thank goodness because I was exhausted. A local from the area named Steve had us make a shelter from the wood around us, build a fire, chop wood, and lastly cook some delicious bread on a stick as we did for our house bonfire about a month ago.
The next day was wet. Very wet. It was our off-site day. About a 20 minute drive away we did climbing and caving. Two things that I have already done with AoC. Look who sounds experienced all of a sudden. What is happening? Anyways I climbed the rock and Abseiled down, at the time telling Simon that there is no way I would do things like this if I wasn’t at AC, which is one of the reasons I’m lucky to be pushed in this way- mostly mentally. The rest of the climbing session I helped belay, and laughed with Chikara, my very own Japanese ninja.
After eating lunch in the entrance to a cave I kitted up to go inside. This cave was very different to the one that we went in during AoC summer as it was dry. Which made me superbly happy. Meditating in ultimate darkness, wiggling and finding our way without any lights on, allowing our touch to become so much more essential… nothing to complain about there! We even made out flags for the flag parade that evening in the cave. Group E started as eggs and became Eagles. Crazy stuff.
BTW! There were bathrooms, about a five minute walk away. The showers were low pressure and it wasn’t luxurious even by AC standards- but it was manageable. Not to worry my friends.
The last day we were meant to do Mountain Biking and then Canoeing. However this didn’t quite happen… I was all kitted out for Mountain Biking, borrowing someone else’s leggings as they were already dirty, helmet on, gloves secure. However Audrey’s chain broke within five minutes, and I went back with her. By the time we were back we wouldn’t have been able to catch up. So instead Audrey from Austria, Sara from Wales (but lived in so many cool places like Kenya) and I decided to take a walk. We basically just kept asking random questions, from favourite book to who you admire most walking upwards for half an hour and then turning back. As you can imagine this meant we weren’t paying the most attention… We only got perfectly lost to arrive back on the campsite at the same time as the bikers. Phew. My heart wouldn’t have been able to handle much more than that.
Then that afternoon we were meant to go canoeing on the rapids. However this had been cancelled the previous day as well, as with all the rain, there were no rapids- just very fast water. Not safe. I wasn’t too disappointed though, I didn’t have an intense urge to put on a wetsuit for my last activity before heading home. Instead we went ‘Gallivanting with Gareth’ (which that morning was ‘Roaming with Robbie’). It was another walk, another chance to talk to people I hadn’t had a chance to much before camp. Daniel and I compared home for quite a while, and then Karabo from South Africa beat-boxed for me the majority of the way back.
And then back to AC. Exfoliation, Cream, Floss, and dry socks. Bliss basically. In Open House I wore my wounds with pride (which included three pretty massive bruises on various areas of my legs, midge bites and a tad bit of sunburn from that day). Let’s just say that I wasn’t looking to the nines, besides my smile.
Challenge completed.
Friday, 21 September 2012
Fireworks! YAY!
Thursday Evening-
We had a barbeque in the Inner Courtyard. Vegetarian Burger and Sausage, Cous Cous galore… Life was good. After that more than half the school and staff were in the on the Top Lawn, waiting for the fireworks that went off at 8:30. They were actually pretty good. Everyone was a bit sceptical on how good they would actually be. A professional company did them, it was done by the Outdoor Pool. It kept finishing and everyone would clap, and then more would start- so there was never an obvious finale.
I realised it had been so long since I’ve watched fireworks in celebrating an occasion. I mean there are fireworks on Christmas Day and New Year’s, but it’s all a bit hectic, and no one professional display, as I missed Pirates Week festivities last November. Though it was really nice, I was a bit sceptical as to why we were having such fireworks when I thought the 50th anniversary was a monumental fundraising event for UWC. Oh well…
That evening was even Open House to top everything off! I mostly cuddled with Balazs from Hungary as we ate scones and compared our swimming history. His was far superior- but it was still enjoyable. There were then two Morgannwg showering’s, Lalita turning 18 and Vicki turning 17. Couldn’t resist have a bit of the coffee icing that Heidi made… MMM.
After that (it really seems like a never ending night), we had a house meeting. We discussed next week, which is a Diploma Period for the first years and Challenge Camp for second years… and also a major school inspection. The same association that shut down the London Metropolitan a few weeks ago is coming here. We’ll be fine though :)
THEN I read for pleasure for about half an hour. Which I’m not sure if I have done since being back! Dad ordered me the newest Ken Follett book: Winter of the World. It’s a great book to be reading as we’re covering the exact same time period in History right now. (So even when it’s for pleasure, I’m learning, yippeeeee).
Bed by midnight. Ah.
We had a barbeque in the Inner Courtyard. Vegetarian Burger and Sausage, Cous Cous galore… Life was good. After that more than half the school and staff were in the on the Top Lawn, waiting for the fireworks that went off at 8:30. They were actually pretty good. Everyone was a bit sceptical on how good they would actually be. A professional company did them, it was done by the Outdoor Pool. It kept finishing and everyone would clap, and then more would start- so there was never an obvious finale.
I realised it had been so long since I’ve watched fireworks in celebrating an occasion. I mean there are fireworks on Christmas Day and New Year’s, but it’s all a bit hectic, and no one professional display, as I missed Pirates Week festivities last November. Though it was really nice, I was a bit sceptical as to why we were having such fireworks when I thought the 50th anniversary was a monumental fundraising event for UWC. Oh well…
That evening was even Open House to top everything off! I mostly cuddled with Balazs from Hungary as we ate scones and compared our swimming history. His was far superior- but it was still enjoyable. There were then two Morgannwg showering’s, Lalita turning 18 and Vicki turning 17. Couldn’t resist have a bit of the coffee icing that Heidi made… MMM.
After that (it really seems like a never ending night), we had a house meeting. We discussed next week, which is a Diploma Period for the first years and Challenge Camp for second years… and also a major school inspection. The same association that shut down the London Metropolitan a few weeks ago is coming here. We’ll be fine though :)
THEN I read for pleasure for about half an hour. Which I’m not sure if I have done since being back! Dad ordered me the newest Ken Follett book: Winter of the World. It’s a great book to be reading as we’re covering the exact same time period in History right now. (So even when it’s for pleasure, I’m learning, yippeeeee).
Bed by midnight. Ah.
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Saturday, 15th September.
Busy Saturday
Woke up at 9 and worked on homework: English homework on the juxtaposition between the intellectual and emotional in one of John Donne’s poems. Then my last Environmental Systems Write Up – on the zonation of a slipway no less.
Went to lunch at Fossil Cottage, as Antonia’s family are here and she invited some friends. Lovely time. Even indulged in some Ben and Jerry’s!
First service session of the year! It was something we volunteered for, as our service isn’t required to do things on the weekends. I did a canoeing session with Amy from England and Saleh from Palestine. The visiting group was -12-13 year olds from a Cardiff Youth Group. It was so interesting for me as they all spoke fluent Welsh. There are only three or four students at the school we are actually fluent… so this was the first time in a year that I heard Welsh being casually spoken for over an hour. The session in general was great, they were such a jolly group, had me bent over laughing when they tried to complete ‘Crazy Taxi’.
I then came back to defrost. And shower. And work on a bit of History Note taking of Hitler’s Rise to Power. Then I went to see Illisha so we could discuss our presentation on Monday English class about the poem The Flea by John Donne. It’s such a seductive poem, the guy is peer pressuring the girl to sleep with him, but using ‘metaphysical conceits’ and all this other hoopla that you don’t realise. So we’ve decided to read it aloud to some seducing-worthy music. That should help.
THEN I got in a mini-bus, that seated 16 and went into Cowbridge to celebrate one of my friend’s 18th’s. We went to a really nice restaurant called the New Market Place. I was really thankful I ate before I went though… the other didn’t get their food till 9- I would have been ravenous!
After we went on the Coastal Path near school and lit some fireworks Janos’ mum brought from Germany. It was different, which made it special.
Such a fulfilling day!
Tomorrow my grandparents come, which I’m so excited for.
Woke up at 9 and worked on homework: English homework on the juxtaposition between the intellectual and emotional in one of John Donne’s poems. Then my last Environmental Systems Write Up – on the zonation of a slipway no less.
Went to lunch at Fossil Cottage, as Antonia’s family are here and she invited some friends. Lovely time. Even indulged in some Ben and Jerry’s!
First service session of the year! It was something we volunteered for, as our service isn’t required to do things on the weekends. I did a canoeing session with Amy from England and Saleh from Palestine. The visiting group was -12-13 year olds from a Cardiff Youth Group. It was so interesting for me as they all spoke fluent Welsh. There are only three or four students at the school we are actually fluent… so this was the first time in a year that I heard Welsh being casually spoken for over an hour. The session in general was great, they were such a jolly group, had me bent over laughing when they tried to complete ‘Crazy Taxi’.
I then came back to defrost. And shower. And work on a bit of History Note taking of Hitler’s Rise to Power. Then I went to see Illisha so we could discuss our presentation on Monday English class about the poem The Flea by John Donne. It’s such a seductive poem, the guy is peer pressuring the girl to sleep with him, but using ‘metaphysical conceits’ and all this other hoopla that you don’t realise. So we’ve decided to read it aloud to some seducing-worthy music. That should help.
THEN I got in a mini-bus, that seated 16 and went into Cowbridge to celebrate one of my friend’s 18th’s. We went to a really nice restaurant called the New Market Place. I was really thankful I ate before I went though… the other didn’t get their food till 9- I would have been ravenous!
After we went on the Coastal Path near school and lit some fireworks Janos’ mum brought from Germany. It was different, which made it special.
Such a fulfilling day!
Tomorrow my grandparents come, which I’m so excited for.
And the party continues.
I'm on the right, my shoes were glowing whenever I wasn't in the light too! At least I looked like a professional climber, right?
Last night was great! I went down for my shift at 7PM, kitted out with knitted socks, to layers of leggings, 2 jumpers on, and even a hat and gloves if need be. Thankfully it wasn't that cold. I first billayed Illisha for 10 climbs and did six myself afterwards. We had so many 'guest climbers', extra students who wanted to try out the wall for the first time that a lot of the AoC students had to wait... Which was a bit problematic. Even so that night I did 15 climbs, moving faster towards the end when Robbie promised it was good to tone all of the leg muscles! When I left that night we were at 350 climbs, and there was another shift from 9-11 of students still to go.
This morning I got there at 8AM, planning to do at least 15 more, but they told me there were only 40 more climbs to go! We overestimated how long it would take us to do the climb! Evenso I got up there first and did 10 more, with only 10 more climbs to go so I got down so others who were on the same shift as me could have a turn. Even made it to double-code History. Phew.
We'll all be there for the last three climbs at 2PM this afternoon, I know the atmosphere will be great. Our service had a great time.
Thank you to everyone who supported the climb, all the proceeds are going to the Atlantic College Student Scholarships.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19656834 ^^ Here is a short video that you can visually see Queen Noor and the burial of the capsule.
More of tonight!
Abi
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The big 5o!
I have a blog entry from last Saturday to put up, it's just on Chloe's computer! Technical Difficulties!
Sunday
Grandma and Grandpa came for the night! It was so nice to see them, made me unbelievably happy. They arrived at about 3pm and after having a chat in my room (and being blessed with a supply of new food), all three of us went into the dayroom and read for a few hours, with a cup of tea of course. We found their room, Middle Gibbet, on the spiral staircase up twoards the History classrooms. Bunk-beds! And a single, luckily neither of them had to take top bunk. That evening we went to dinner at Il Visuvio (crazy!), with Chloe, Ilisha and Shana as well. It really was an amazing night. Nothing extraordinary, but amazing. We even managed to catch the last 20 minutes of the British National Evening. Though Grandma and Grandpa are far superior Brits to what we were performing.
Since we got split up, Chloe said Shana, Ilisha and her went to 'tuck them into bed' and say thank you that night.
Monday-
I had breakfast with them, and the sadly had to say bye. But it wasn't too bad because I know I will be seeing them in three weeks for my 18th. :)
That afternoon I got to see my third-year, Dmitry. He took a very long detour on his way to University of Edinburgh. Flying into London, train to Cardiff, taxi to AC (then taxi to Cardiff airport and flight to Edinburgh that night). I hope the three hours he got to spend at AC were worth it. We went to Il Visuvio (two nights in a row, and three restaurants consequtively for me!), with Louis and Chloe. Such a lovely time.
Wednesday:
THE 50th ANNIVERSARY!
We missed the code after break to watch Queen Noor of Jordan arrive in her helipcopter.
Then our Student President and Vice President helped her burry a time capsule that will be opened at the 100th anniversary, filled with letters that the students wrote.
Then the principal of UWC Pearson (in Canada) rode the last couple of km into the Main Arch with students.
There is currently an Assembly going on in Bradenstoke which I am listening to live on the AC website while writing this blog. (Two things at once!)
The climb in in ONE HOUR!
Though I am not climbing until 7pm tonight, I will go for the beginning. Robbie and Rob (two of our instructors) have put a tent up at the top, and are planning to sleep the night on the tower. We stop climbing at midnight and start again at 5am tomorrow morning. Every student has to climb at least 27 times, and the instructors a fair bit more. My slots, with 10 other AOC students, are from 7-9PM tonight, and then 8-10AM tomorrow morning. Illisha and I have promised to be eachother's billayers. I'm nervous... but it will be great! And am so proud to have raised money for it!
Okay, I will get what I did on Saturday up tomorrow. With news of the climbing, the BBQ, the fireworks.. oh so much!
Love,
Abi
PS *apparently the last time Queen Noor was here, in 2003, students wrote EDW on her helipcopter. They got into a lot of trouble for it, possibly expelled.. Just thought it was an interesting thing to know.
Sunday, 9 September 2012
AOC FUNDRAISER!!
http://www.justgiving.com/Abi-Drummond
HELLOOOOOO
In order to celebrate 50 years of UWC AC, the instructors and students of this service are climbing the height of Mt. Everest (8,848 m) in 24 hours on the new climbing wall. The climb will start at 1700 on Wednesday 19th September and we will finish it at 1700 on Thursday 20th. We will have to climb the tower approximately 800 times to match the height of Everest!
Your support and generosity would be very much appreciated.
It is hoped that by taking part and completing the challenge we can achieve some objectives for the college:
1. Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the College with action.
2. Raise some money for the College so that we can continue to support students through bursaries and also through support for activities and projects at the college.
For more information please look at the links below:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/AtlanticOutdoorCentre
http://www.facebook.com/#!/UWCAC
I'm quite sure I've spoken of my fear of climbing at least half a dozen times on this website. Please support my amazing service and school. <3
Abi
HELLOOOOOO
In order to celebrate 50 years of UWC AC, the instructors and students of this service are climbing the height of Mt. Everest (8,848 m) in 24 hours on the new climbing wall. The climb will start at 1700 on Wednesday 19th September and we will finish it at 1700 on Thursday 20th. We will have to climb the tower approximately 800 times to match the height of Everest!
Your support and generosity would be very much appreciated.
It is hoped that by taking part and completing the challenge we can achieve some objectives for the college:
1. Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the College with action.
2. Raise some money for the College so that we can continue to support students through bursaries and also through support for activities and projects at the college.
For more information please look at the links below:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/AtlanticOutdoorCentre
http://www.facebook.com/#!/UWCAC
I'm quite sure I've spoken of my fear of climbing at least half a dozen times on this website. Please support my amazing service and school. <3
Abi
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