Month: February 2022

Week Without Walls: Day 4&5

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Summary: Day Four

Day four of WWW was easily one of the most exhausting days. After breakfast, we headed off into the forest on several hour hikes. While the hike was not necessarily long in distance, it was a lot more challenging because of the roots, rocks, and mud obscuring the path. We stopped off at a rock face, where we saw pitcher plants. Plants that are designed to trap and dissolve insects who fall into their base. We continued on our hike, we arrived at a large opening where 2 waterfalls connected into a larger creak. In some of the various rock pools, there was the same skin eating fish, we encountered the day before. After spending about an hour exploring the open area, we headed back to camp. On the hike, we saw several species of frogs and insects. We saw the “first plants” on earth. 

Sunset on day 4 of Week Without Walls.

 

Summary Day Five:

Our final day began with an option bird walk. After breakfast, we packed up our rooms and headed down in the jeeps down the steep and narrow cliffside. On the bus we slept, edited photos, wrote reflections, and snacked. We stopped at the service station for lunch, where I got a finely seasoned subway sandwich. We arrived back at school around 4:00.


Sri Lanka Blue Magpie, spotted in the afternoon, day 5.

IB Learner Outcomes: 

#4: Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences. The hike we did in the forest was a clear demonstration of perseverance. The hike took several hours, and we had to cover uneven and rocky terrain. 

 

 

Week Without Walls: Day Three

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Day Three: 

Day three of my week without walls adventure began, as usual, with a 6:00 wake up. We spotted a rather large peacock perched in a tree, the warm morning light hitting its feathers. Straight after breakfast, we departed off to the rainforest ecolodge. Our second location for our down south trip. However, there was a slight issue, as our large 20 person buses could not make it up the windy narrow hillside roads, so, we had to disembark our enclosed and ACed buses to enter some open-top jeeps for the remaining hour of the trip. It was a huge climate shock to be in the cool humid hill country, com0ared to the dry and hot environment we were in before. On the way up we stopped several times to admire the vast view of the valley, from the cliff sides. We also noticed new wildlife around us, including several deer crossing signs. 

 

After making it to the hotel alive we had lunch and got our room sorted out. At 4:00 we headed into the rainforest in search of “fish therapy” where a certain species of fish eats the dead skin off your body. The fish were a lot larger than I experienced. Some fish were easily bigger than my thumb. The feeling was nothing like I had experienced before, it was the strangest sensation. We finished off the day with an incredible 3-course meal.

 

IB learning Outcomes: 

“Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences” Today, by trying new activities, such as hiking in a rainforest, taking jeeps up a steep mountainside, and putting my feet into skin eating fish, I demonstrated commitment to CAS experiences. By putting myself outside of my comfort zone I was able to experience new adventures.