Today (22nd June - Sunday) we all walked to the Glacier de Triente in southwest Switzerland. It was 27 degrees and we were all sweating our horrendously, but at least we fitted in with the French. In total we walked under 5 miles. According to Mrs Morrison we were very slow and complained most of the way. But, thankfully there were a select few of us who were very energetic about the whole escapade. Mr Smith was our team leader with a pretty shocking sense of direction. Due to his “detours” through the boulders and nettles, many of us came out a little bruised and stung. Gladly, Mr Smith is trained in first aid so we were actually in safe hands! Eventually when we got to the glacier, everyone collapsed on the rocks and started to drink the run off water from the glacier (not advised). Unfortunately we didn’t get as close to the glacier as we would have liked to because it had retreated so far up the mountain side that it was too steep for our liking (Teachers couldn’t hack it!).
After our adventure a lot of us were well and truly done for the day, but Mrs Morrison had other things planned. Our initial plan was to go to the top of the valley in a cable car to view Mont Blanc and its glaciers. But, due to the fact everyone generally “cba”, Mrs Morrison decided to treat us to The Luge! Basically the Luge is a concrete slide that you sledge down. Many of us got a little freaked out before we made a decision whether to go on the Luge as Mrs Morrison informed us on some pretty gruesome stories that came with the Luge. Including people falling off the sledges and scraping their skin off right to the bone! YUK! Being typical North Berwickers though we decided to try it anyway, and I have to say it was pretty good fun. There is a fast lane and a slow lane so we could chose how fast we wanted to go. Mrs Morrison very kindly paid for two shots on the Luge. On the whole we had a very active but enjoyable day. Luckily the weather was kind to us!
Olivia Heaton and Millie Scott
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