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Day Three - Bidding Farewell
Addie L.
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Friday morning was an earlier wake-up, as we had to finish packing up to go home before the day started. Breakfast was French toast and oatmeal, and, for our last meal at Cardigan Lodge, our ORT was 0.1 pounds. After breakfast we went and got our bags to put in the trailer for the ride home. Then we gathered in our meeting places before going outside and playing a game with Robin. One person would stand at the far end of the field facing away from a line of people at the other end of the field. The lone person at the far end would stand with an object behind their feet and say one, two, three, while everyone else moved forwards, and then turn around and make people go back to the beginning if they moved, or they would guess about who had the object. After that game we went to the pond and sketched it, took latitude and longitude (N 43 degrees 38 minutes 58.2 seconds, W 71 degrees 52 minutes 42.2 seconds), took the temperature (41 degrees Fahrenheit/5 degrees Celsius), and then captured some tiny organisms such as leeches, beetles, tadpoles, nymphs, and a frog, and put them in ice trays. Following this, we sketched the little creatures, had a snack, took PH levels (5.3) and oxygen levels (8). When we finished writing down everything on the pages of our sketchbooks, we went over to the field behind the lodge, where Robin and Miss Cairns showed us two games; one kind of like black magic or the hat game, and another game having to do with deer and resources. Eventually the other groups arrived at the lodge, and Mr. Woolner showed us a game called Captain's Coming. Then the bus arrived, and we loaded up our backpacks. It was the end of our trip to Cardigan.
This day includes an example of Movement, a Theme of Geography. I think we will always remember what we learned at Cardigan, for plot study to to pond study, thus bringing ideas and knowledge wherever we go. More examples of Movement are that we, as people, move