Today the advisers of grade 9 took the students to an outdoor education center called Peaks, in the mountains. Here the students had a chance to zip line, repel, rock climb and do a high ropes course. The bus ride up was fun, it proved that kids are kids wherever. First, the bus situation here is interesting. We take coach buses everywhere. We were supposed to leave at 8 am, but we ended up leaving at 9. As they say here a lot, welcome to Lebanon. The bus ride took about an hour to get about to the mountains, because traffic here is insane. There are no real lanes, or traffic laws, as I am sure I have mentioned before. The topics ranged from Kardashians to Futbol, taking Instagram selfies to how many likes they got, Paris Hilton to, of course, Miley Cyrus. Some differences from other kids are that these kids have been to a lot of places, and their family has been to a lot of places. Some of the kids were talking about where their family members were studying, such as Florence, St Maarten, Rome and a lot of places in the States. The kids are so cute though, still in that sitting all girls to a table or all boys to a table. Ahh, the innocence.
Once we got to the facility, they had a great breakfast prepared for us, and then we split into our groups. We didn't have a lot of time at each station, but it was so nice to be outside all day. I did get a chance to repel as well. After the activities, we had another great meal. The food here is so incredible, and even as a vegetarian there are a lot of choices.
The bus ride down was going smoothly till we were about 20 minutes away from the school and our bus broke down, on the highway. We had to get the kids into the other bus and cram in from there. It actually went really smoothly.
All in all, it was a really great day, even though I am exhausted from 9th graders!
Ropes course
Repelling
Where we had lunch
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