Thursday, May 22, 2008

Climbing the Summit

Yesterday se started our dance lessons with professional instructors all the way from Essen. We will perform this interpretative dance next week here in the Wilderness Camp.

In the afternoon we traveled to another part of the Bavarian Forest that is being managed "by doing nothing." This means that the forest is left on its own as much as possible, except for some trees that are cut for the safety of visitors. Somewhere in the forest we had a small program with music from traditional percussions- bongos, maraca, and anything you hit that makes sound! We put our memoirs in a giant glass ark donated by the Poschinger glass factory- the oldest in the world. This ark is held by a wooden hand that came from the Czechs. Czech Republic is only a few kilometers away from this part of Bavaria, and the country actually shares the forest with Germany.

We further hiked and reached one of the summits of the mountain. Despite the freezing weather all of us managed to reach the top! Up there we got our reward of a really filling typical German dinner!

Suffice it to say that I am now feeling sore and still tired even after 7 hours of sleep from all the physical activity yesterday. But we have just begun!

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