Well, where do I begin? The Armidale School has the 2nd oldest cadets program in Australia, much like our school used to have. Last week the school went on a two-day cadets trip called… well I’m actually not sure what it is called because I can’t really understand what anyone says it because of their accents, but I presume it is something like “bivouac.”
Bivouac is a two-day long program where we trekked 18 kilometres, went abseiling (repelling) and did a river crossing. This was probably the hardest and most physically challenging activity that I have ever done in my life! I am told that what I have experienced is nothing compared to “annual camp” which is six days long, includes a 50-kilometre trek, canyoning (which is abseiling off a canyon), and it’s done three times. I am told the smallest abseil is 50 meters tall!!! Other than that we canoe for about 20 kilometres and do three to four river crossings (in total). I am in for quite the experience!
In other news I went to my exchange partners farm last weekend and I met some of his friends from outside of school. His farm was so much fun. All of the older kids went for three-hour horseback ride, which included me. I was terrified! –Jared Blatt ’16 (LCC exchange student at the Armidale School in Armidale, Australia)