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Hey Internet,

Remember back in February the 19th, I said I'd tell you what I was doing? Well, I went to an outdoor education center called Mono Cliffs and here's what we did there.


Well, on the first day, we arrived at school like usual, except when we were supposed to go to home form, we stayed in the cafeteria until the buses came. I sat beside my friend and we talked. The bus ride was about 1 1/2 hours long. When we got to Mono Cliffs, we first went in to the meeting center. I'll assume that's what is was called. They went over the basic things about staying at Mono Cliffs.

By the way, it was snowing a lot outside.

After that, we had lunch, which we had to bring (I will not name all of the dishes we had). After that, we went to where our dorms were located. In there, we made our way in to the common room where we got our room numbers. I was unfortunately stuck with two other people that I didn't want to be with.

I only knew that the trip was going downhill from then. It did at some points.

We unpacked and went to the meeting room to get assigned our groups. I was in the Fire group. Our first activity, which I think was cross country-skiing. We tested it out and it was tiring. The hills were like Mount Everest on cross-country skis as I wasn't used to them.

After that, I believe we had a little break before dinner. Our first dinner was chicken fingers and something else.

After dinner, we got our night program group. I believe I was in the Comet group (yes, very inconvenient). The activity was just a bunch of boring outdoor activities, but we had a fire going and roasted marshmallows.

So, the first two activities were not fun. However, we got an hour to just play around with some games of cards of anything. Before long, it was lights out.

The second day started at 4 a.m. for me. I got a nosebleed and had to clean it up. I did go to sleep again, but it was only three hours before we had to get up.

We got our stuff on and left for breakfast. That day I think we had omelet. Maybe it was the next day, but the omelet was terrible. After breakfast, we went out in to the forest to learn some wilderness survival tips. We learned how to build a shelter out of snow and 9 people were able to fit inside.

Well, after that, we went to eat lunch. At lunch, I remember having this soup with beans in it. Well, after lunch, we went on a larger cross-country ski course. It was 2 1/2 hours of skiing. Well, besides my feet killing me, the constant waiting for idiots to hurry up, being out of breath all the time, and the beans reacting to my stomach making it ache all the time, it was not all that good. We had to go around twice and it definitely was not worth the experience.

After that wretched experience, we had a little time to play frisbee and go back for other things before dinner. I obviously went to the washroom passing a lot of gas. After, my stomach felt much better.

I went to play frisbee with the others, which was pretty tiring (fortunately, I made the good decision of going to the washroom before frisbee).

Dinner was a great improvement from the soup of lunch. I don't quite recall what we had.

Well, after dinner, we went to the area we were supposed to go for our evening program. It was a night hike. We went out into the forest. It was pitch black. We played that one game. Remember that one where someone would shout that word in Wildfire and we had to hide, the closest who didn't get caught won.

Anyways, it was interesting. We had some candy, where if you were to bite really hard, it would spark.

Again, after the evening program, time to wash up and play. The only thing was that I think that there was this one guy in the shower that actually opened the curtains to the shower when someone was changing. Then we played.

Well, I woke up at an early hour again. I think that I actually stayed up from around 5-7 a.m.

Well, we had breakfast like usual. Then we went on and about on a pioneer hike where we looked at some rocks piled to make the cellars. Not much interesting to be honest.

After lunch, we went on this nature hike where we went to some barn where they keep a few animals. After that we had a break. Then dinner.

After dinner we went to the meeting room where the night program was really just trying to make a skit (4 scenes) in about 15 minutes. It was really hard and my group didn't do so well as we had no time to think of anything original. We had to make the skits on how we can conserve on one of the 4 topics, which I think are: saving energy, not wasting food, not wasting water and creating less waste. We were stuck with saving energy, which was pretty easy.

Same thing for the night.

Again, woke up the in middle of the night.

We woke up for the final day. We had breakfast and we went on to do our last activity.

We went on an ecology hike. We saw the (forgot the name) where there were many rocks and plants that took hundreds of years to grow as there were very little sunlight going down there. I was really interesting. We also saw a live porcupine that was sleeping. A very rare sight.

Well, after that, we had pizza for lunch and then we left for home.

Well, there you go.

Thanks for reading,
-personhere