Day 6 was Saturday, and it started nice and early. I had gone to sleep at 5 in the morning the night before and was up by 8:30 in the morning. The international program at my school had set up a day of trekking in the Sierras for the day. We met at the university at 9:30 in the morning.
We boarded a bus, and took it to an area called Rio Ceballos. We got off the bus and began trekking through the mountains. Our first encounter was a barbwired fence. It was not a very big one so it was very easy to climb. We all climbed it including one of the tutor`s Matias who had a broken arm. We really did not hike too long, but we crossed small streams of water, climbed over rocks and (Mom don`t read this line)almost fell off a couple of cliffs (not really that close though). Eventually we found a place next to a little water fall to camp out for the day.
We built a fire to prepare for lunch. While the fire was being built we formed 4 teams of 4 people. We played different games and the team that won the most games would win 4 bottles of wine (one for each member of the team). We played a game pretty much identical to bocce ball, except with wooden discs kind of like frisbees. My team kicked but in round one. Unfortuanately the other game we played was a scrabble like game, where we got random letters and had to make as many words as we could in one minute. Each letter was worth a different amount of points. We did a round in english and a round in spanish. My group sucked at spelling so we got killed.
We played another round of each against a different team. Again we killed in the bocce ball game. We lost by one point in the scrabble game, but I pointed out afterwords that the other team cheated somehow. They had a "Q" during the english round without a "U" but by the end of the minute, they no longer had a Q. Oh well. The rules got really screwed up and somehow the team that we beat won the bottles of wine.
After the games, we ate Choripan for lunch with pop to drink. I had way too much to eat. After lunch some people went hiking some more, while others played in the little river. A couple of the leaders started playing the guitar and singing songs. We drank a mate and listened to the music. A little while later, we got a huge soccer game going in the smallest playing field ever. I had the play of the day. This girl Tina kicked the ball as hard as she could towards the goal from about two feet in front of me. It smashed off my face leaving my face full of mud from the ball. I saved the goal though. Of course my team lost, when my friend Brad kicked the ball off of Tina`s knee right into our own goal.
Later, we packed up our stuff and hiked back to where we began. We caught a bus and returned home. We had to wait a short while as three people had wondered off and were missing. We found them though.
We boarded a bus, and took it to an area called Rio Ceballos. We got off the bus and began trekking through the mountains. Our first encounter was a barbwired fence. It was not a very big one so it was very easy to climb. We all climbed it including one of the tutor`s Matias who had a broken arm. We really did not hike too long, but we crossed small streams of water, climbed over rocks and (Mom don`t read this line)almost fell off a couple of cliffs (not really that close though). Eventually we found a place next to a little water fall to camp out for the day.
We built a fire to prepare for lunch. While the fire was being built we formed 4 teams of 4 people. We played different games and the team that won the most games would win 4 bottles of wine (one for each member of the team). We played a game pretty much identical to bocce ball, except with wooden discs kind of like frisbees. My team kicked but in round one. Unfortuanately the other game we played was a scrabble like game, where we got random letters and had to make as many words as we could in one minute. Each letter was worth a different amount of points. We did a round in english and a round in spanish. My group sucked at spelling so we got killed.
We played another round of each against a different team. Again we killed in the bocce ball game. We lost by one point in the scrabble game, but I pointed out afterwords that the other team cheated somehow. They had a "Q" during the english round without a "U" but by the end of the minute, they no longer had a Q. Oh well. The rules got really screwed up and somehow the team that we beat won the bottles of wine.
After the games, we ate Choripan for lunch with pop to drink. I had way too much to eat. After lunch some people went hiking some more, while others played in the little river. A couple of the leaders started playing the guitar and singing songs. We drank a mate and listened to the music. A little while later, we got a huge soccer game going in the smallest playing field ever. I had the play of the day. This girl Tina kicked the ball as hard as she could towards the goal from about two feet in front of me. It smashed off my face leaving my face full of mud from the ball. I saved the goal though. Of course my team lost, when my friend Brad kicked the ball off of Tina`s knee right into our own goal.
Later, we packed up our stuff and hiked back to where we began. We caught a bus and returned home. We had to wait a short while as three people had wondered off and were missing. We found them though.
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