Day 3 - Scoul Switzerland

Today began with white water rafting down the Inn River. I stayed at the hotel with a student who wasn't feeling well, so I can't say how it went. But the students were all very excited when we met back up after lunch. When I asked how it went, they became very animated and somewhere in the stories did mention how much fun it was. As if their stories weren't proof enough.

The students took a gondola ride up the mountain to get to the restaurant for lunch. As you can imagine, this took a backseat to the whole rafting activity, but it was fun just the same.

After lunch we drove back into "downtown" Scoul for an orienteering activity. Students were given a city map with questions regarding signs within the town. They were to use the map to find the signs and use the signs to answer the questions. Everyone had a good time. If it tells you anything about age, it was the leaders that were the last back to base. We got a tad lost. Kids, not a problem. Figures.....

After orienteering we hiked back to the hotel. We were quite pooped upon return, but our day had yet to end. We had dinner, chicken parm and then danced our feet off. That really didn't take as long as it sounds with the hike we had to get back to the hotel. We had local musicians from Scoul come play folk music and the kids danced. You'd never know how much walking we'd done over the past 2 days.

We are all in REALLY good spirits and excited to be doing these activities in Switzerland!! And we are ready for another hike tomorrow!

Tomorrow - a lesson in the language of Romansh and downhill hike to a neighboring village.

Footnote: the ill student was not one of mine, but I did volunteer to stay back.