Outdoor Leadership
In this term, I have an exploration call Outdoor Leadership that talking about how to living in the forest without technology and also learn how to do something that relates to outdoor too such as making fire, build shelter and more. So below are the photo essay that talking about some of my experience during the trip to Mondulkiri.
Hiking is not easy for me. Mondulkiri is the place where has a lot of mountains, so it’s hard to hike. We need to go up and down up and down the mountain and the road is not good too. It’s very dangerous it’s very very steep. The weather is very hot too. But it’s Ok because while we hiking, we make juke that makes everyone laugh and also teacher sang a song for us too to make us has more energy. Also while we hiking we have seen a lot of new thing from nature such as birds, animals and some plants that make us feel better too. And I just know that nature can also help us feel better and have more energy.
We are family, so we need to help each other. I help my friends a lot but not just friends, I also help the people who cook for us too. When we at the waterfall I and some of my friends help the guide cook the food for lunch. Also in our exploration, we have roles for each student when we on the trip. And I got Fire Fairies that need to collect the firewood. While we on the trip, when I finish collect the firewood I go and help the dinner people to cook or I help them the clean the dishes too.
We need water. Water is very important to us especially when we hiking or playing the sport. We need to drink a lot more water and more often. For this trip, I didn’t drink much water. That’s why I get dehydrated. When I get dehydrated it’s hard for me to hike and sure that you’ll get tired. I need to drink more water and more often to make me feel good and be a good self-leader too.
One of my highlight from the trip was to build the shelter only use a natural thing. We learn how to build the shelter because it’s easy while we hiking and some people get sick or something we know how to build a shelter for them to stay and protect from something dangerous like the storm, rain something like that. All of our students have to divide into 4 team and this team has won it.
Before the trip, everyone has a dream to see new and different birds in Cambodia. During the trip, everyone has a chance to see many birds. This is a picture of one of my friends tries to see the birds by using the binoculars. I have one too. I saw one parrot that stays on the branch of the tree. It’s full of green and has a long tail. I really enjoy seeing the birds.