It was day one of the Mount Cardigan field trip. The one that everyone, especially Mr. Woolner, had been looking forward to and preparing for the whole school year. I got to the bus with my backpack all packed and ready. Mr. Woolner stood by his car questioning everyone who was standing around if we were wearing cotton and if we had the supplies necessary for this trip. We all passed the test and at about 8:30 we all loaded onto the bus excited for what was to come. I sat on the bus with Lauryn, Lia, and Jillian seated right near me. We played hangman and stared out the window until we finally came to the Mount Cardigan AMC lodge. We were greeted by 4 of our AMC guides for the next three days, Mara, Max, Izzy, and Tom. We gathered in a circle when we were announced that we were going to play some sort of baseball with a plastic lobster. Then we had some extra time before we got instructions so we played a round of duck-duck-goose. It was fun but then this guy with sandals on and a long beard came outside and into the circle to give us instructions. Stay with your group, if your lost blow your whistle, have fun. The usual rules. Then we were split into groups. It was me, Rose, Lauryn, Lia, Jacques, Rowan, Will, Nico, Tom our guide, and Mr. McCrillis, Jacques dad who was chaperoning.
We were off on our adventure. We played some name games and then we walked past the AMC lodge and were off, ready for an adventure. We started walking as Tom talked to us about some of the history of Mount Cardigan. Once that was over, Lia started coming up with riddles which satisfied us for a good amount of time until we stopped to sketch and play this guessing game. Nico was my partner and he had to explain a plant to me so that I could then go with what he told me and sketch it. I sketched what we then learned was a cucumber root plant. If you pull it out of the ground and eat the white, delicious root that tastes like a cucumber. We then continued on and stopped for lunch at this old cellar hole where we found a geocache, signed our names and then set off on the rest of the trail. We came to a cliff where we took a break and discussed how the world was going to end because of magnetic fields and the earth getting hotter and hotter until we burn to death.
After that long conversation, which was also a nice excuse to take a long break, we set off to find Welton falls. We got there after some fun river crossings and a huge trek up the side of the falls. We made it to the top of the falls with a nice view of the waterfall after being warned that if we fall and get too close to the edge we will most likely die. We sat at the top and had a snack. I feasted on a nice, fresh, Gould Hill apple that soothed my hungry stomach. We continued on until we found a road, then it started to rain, Jacques fell, and it seemed that we were beginning to fall apart. We stuck with it though and soon came to the AMC lodge where we hopped on the bus and began to head home. On the bus ride I sat across from Autumn and we did handshakes and I learned how to bro-hug.
Regions
Day 1s theme of geography is regions. I assigned this theme to day 1 is because we walked around a region of Cardigan. We walked along an old logging road and a region of a river and we walked along Welton Falls. There were regions of cucumber plants that we walked by where we stopped and ate some of the cucumber plant roots. They were delicious and because of this I decided that Day 1 represents Regions. Also, on Day 1 we walked along a certain watershed region, where lots of little streams join together to make bigger rivers and streams and then this water eventually all runs downhill and goes down and into the ocean.