On the 20th of March, Form 8 had gone for an Adventure Camp to Nainital for 3 days. We had to gather at the school by 4:30am, or reach the station at 5:30am. The train journey was of 6-7 hours, and we reached Kathgodam around 12:30pm. We then got into a cab, which took us to Camp Anubhav at Nainital. We were divided in two groups: Green Guerillas and Black Commandos. Then, we ate lunch at the camp. After that, we went scrambling, in which we had to get to know the area. Then, we went valley crossing, in which we had to cross the distance between two trees from above, using the equipment we had. Next, we went back to camp for a break, and then we had the silent hour, in which we had to write our experience of the day. Afterwards, we did the Samba, in which we had to make music using scrap material. We then lit the bonfire and sang songs and enjoyed its warmth in the cold night. Soon we went for dinner and we were free to do anything we want in our cottages till we had to go to sleep.
Next morning, we went for a jog. When we came back we were all tired, and we were sent to our cottages. We changed, and then went back down to eat breakfast. We then went mountain biking, and the other group went for rock climbing. We finished before the other group, so we waited for them to finish by playing games taught by the instructors. When the other group had finished, we switched activities, and we went for rock climbing. After we finished, we went for lunch back to camp, and then we rested for a while. Then, we went for a long trek uphill, and everybody was so tired that when we reached, we immediately sat down. Over there, we did some fun activities, and we had to cook Maggi for ourselves, after collecting wood to light the fire. We also made tea for everyone, and had lunch over there. We took a short cut for the route back, and we enjoyed walking downhill as it was less tiring. We reached camp again, and had our evening snacks, and went back to our cottages. We came back down for Silent Hour, and then we continued to make music in Samba. We lit the bonfire when it was getting dark, and then ate dinner. We then went back to our cottages to sleep.
The next day, our first activity after waking up was a game that required concentration. We had breakfast after the game, and then we were told to go back to our cottages to change. We then came back down for our next activity, rappelling. We had to go quite far to get to the place for rappelling, and then had to climb up, so that we reach the point from which we had to go down. After everybody had finished, we went back to camp for lunch. After we had our lunch, we played cricket for a while, and then were called for our next activity. We went caving, in which we had to cross 4 caves, which was quite easy. This day, we had to go for a night trek, and we were very excited about this. We had silent hour after getting back to the camp and resting for a while, and then we finished our composition in Samba. We didn’t light the bonfire, as we were going for the Night Trek. We went into the forest for 5-10 minutes, and came back. After, we went inside and played music, to which we danced too. Afterwards, we ate dinner and went to sleep.
On the last day of camp, we had a competition between the two groups, which required some of the skills taught to us during the camp. Green Guerillas won. We then ate lunch, and were sent to pack our bags. We soon departed for the train station at Kathgodam. We arrived at the train station, and after a while, we departed for Delhi. We reached Delhi at night, said good-bye to our friends, and then some of us went back to school. Our parents picked us up, and we finally went back home.
- Kshitij Upmanyu
- 8B
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