Day 3: Fourth Of July BBQ

That evening was the Fourth of July and we had a BBQ outside with hotdogs and ketchup and salads and other stuff. It was very yummy, and it was fun to eat outside in the nice weather. 

Lizzy, Emilie, Amelia, Ellie, Nathan, Lizzy, Tom

The BBQ

Playing softball with the Center staff

After dinner there were lots of activities offered and I decided to play softball. It wasn't proper softball, as we used a rounders bat and a tennis ball meaning there was no need for the big gloves. While my team fielded, I stood on first base and managed to get three people out in a row. It was lots of fun. In the end the teams drew. 

So, it was a very American evening for the Fourth of July. BBQ and softball. The only thing that could have made it even better would have been to have a huge fire in the fire pit in the back garden of the Center. 

Day 3: Another Mountain

After we'd gone back up the chair lift and down the two gondolas we got back on the bus and went up another mountain where we did some more Biology work. We walked along a little trail along the side of the mountain and looked at how the land had formed and why different plants were where they were. 

Amelia, Lizzy, Emilie, Adelina, Nathan, Nora, Mayu

I was nearly always at the back of the pack taking photos like this one. 

Snail! 

Flowers

The hill...

Day 3: Work on the Glacier

Once we were in the middle of nowhere on the glacier we redid our experiments and recorded our results (again). It was pretty cold, but not as cold as I'd expected, although I was glad that Mommy had made me bring my snow boots. 

Group shot of Biology 1

Wendy, Emilie, Nora, Natalia, Lizzy, Ellie, Amelia, Mayu and me

We saw this really cool circle rainbow surrounding the sun. (Just to let you know, the sky wasn't that dark, I edited the photo so that you can see the rainbow better.)

Wendy, Emilie, Lizzy, Nora & Mayu

Day 3: Up to the Glacier

On the third day everyone went to the Glacier, Biology and Geography. Before we left we had to time ourselves blowing up a balloon so we could measure our lung capacity. I was one of the many who couldn't actually blow the balloon up, so I used Emilie's results. We also had to measure our heart rate before exercise, as well as directly after and a minute after. 

Then we got on the hour long bus drive to the Glacier. 

Natalia, Ellie, Amelia, Nora, Adelina, Emilie, Mayu, Lizzy, & Me

After the first gondola we had to repeat all of the experiments and record our results. And then it was up another gondola to the glacier at 3000m. 

The view from the second gondola

Looking out at the mountains from the top of the second gondola

We had to take a chairlift down onto the glacier. Some of my friends had never been on a chairlift before and were pretty nervous. 

Walking out onto the glacier

Day 2: Practicing for our Hunger Games Tryouts...

After dinner we had free time. (Yay! Finally) My friends and I decided that out of the different activities given by the hostel we'd like to practice for our Hunger Games Tryouts. In other words, we practiced our shooting skills. With a bow and arrow - Katniss style. It was pretty fun. 

Lizzy, Nora and Mayu. Lizzy was really good. 

Amelia, Me and Emilie shooting. On my first shot I got a bullseye, but it must have been beginners luck because it never happened again. 

Day 2: Railroad Photoshoot

Ellie's dad offered to walk with some of us out of the property and down to the nearby train station in hopes of seeing a train. When we found out that one wouldn't be coming in a pretty long time, we took the opportunity to take some more photos. On the train tracks. 

Amelia, Adelina, Ziyoda, Ellie, Mayu & Nora at the train station

On the train tracks

Posing with the EVIL cows. Just as we were taking this picture those cows behind us started stampeding and we had to run away. It was fairly traumatizing. 

Pretty view. 

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Day 2: Photoshoot

There is one thing that my group of friends love to do. And that is pose for pictures. So when a few of us went down to the front field with my frisbee and my camera, and a teacher came to 'supervise' us (really he just wanted to lay down in the sun) we got him to take some photos of us. 

Then we went to grab a few more of our friends and we also grabbed Mr. Schenk (Ellie's dad). Then we got a nice big group shot with the beautiful mountains behind us. 

Nora, Ellie, Fiona, Ziyoda, Lizzy, Todd, Adelina, Emilie, Amelia, Mayu, Me