Istra

To fulfill our 40 hours of coursework for Group 4 - science - we took a 5 day trip to the village Istra not so long ago. I was wondering a lot why in this school we never go to trips at all, and even if we do its for work... I actually though we would get some freetime, but to be honest we got 2 hours of freetime for lunch and diner and then we were dismissed at about midnight everyday to get some sleep. The first day we collaboratively worked together, when we discovered the region around the hotel and creatively drew up some maps. We also had to find some flags around the forest proving that we really did have a proper look around, by which we undertook new challanges.
From the first day to be honest things are kind of mixed up in my head, but I know for sure that we did more creative actions, such as building boats out of whatever we could find and set a race by the lake to see which boat can float further due to a chemical reaction. Funnily all of us failed, the reaction didnt work out for anyone the way we planned. On the boat we also worked together, increased our awereness of our own strength, and did planned initiated activity after its been built. We also played football for most of our 'freetime' which I actually really liked. I didn't liek to play football before, but I have to admit this time it was much fun! One week without my gym sounded scary to me, so I tried to be as active as possible. We also played Spotlight the last night, when we were flooded by a huge storm, but it only made it more fun. We took a picture of us afterwards as we are all soaked after the game full of nettle stings and mud. It was fun :)
We also showed perceverance and commitment in our activities on such days when we had to measure earth pH, light intensity and other scientific features in the middle of the forest and mosquito invasion, which not only happened once. These experiences were to be made regularly, only in different conditions - by the lake, on a hill under pinetrees, in the middle of the forest - but moswuitos were everywhere.
This is why I decided to do my own experience which I planned on my own, very much increased my awareness after the results of my experiment, used creativity to build my own equipment and undertook new challanges since I had to do everything on my own - e.g.: catching 45 mosquitoes :).
At the end of the day we missed Istra, especially when we had to go to school right the next day on saturday, and watched a photocollection made by Mr. Grey which included the funniest moments of Istra.