Red Group D2B2
Day One at Cardigan
On the first day of the annual yearly field trip for the seventh graders of HMHS to go to Cardigan mountain, we did a lot of group activities, walking, and other fun stuff! Here are the things I remember: I remember waking up on Wednesday morning, very excited for the field trip. At around 7:25 I arrived at school, and soon enough, we were climbing on the bus. After arriving at the AMC lodge, we played a game with a toy lobster until we were separated into groups. My group leader was Max, and he was so nice and fun. Eventually, we started walking on one of the trails, and it was a very nice walk. We stopped at a waterfall / stream thingy and Joe kept throwing rocks into the water, which would make a big splash and get us wet.
Since it had been raining, there were hundreds of mushrooms that had sprouted out of the ground, and were all different colors, including pink, gray, and even green! Max pointed out Indian cucumbers, which were so delicious and flavorful! I had never even known what they had looked like before, but they were so tasty! We stopped to eat lunch and sketch.
After a couple of hours of walking, Ms. Banolo asked if I could go back early with her and Joe so as to get a head start, plus it was getting pretty slippery. And of course, there was mud, which I slipped in quite a few times, and Joe would laugh at me. We listened to the soundtrack of Enchanted on the way back to keep his spirits up, because he had started to get very tired and grumpy. When we (FINALLY) arrived back at the lodge, we sat on a bench outside the door and ate some of our snacks, and then went inside, where Joe fell asleep on the couch. After a while, it was time to go home, and the bus ride back was extremely bumpy and fun. I caught air many times!
On the first day of the second session at Cardigan, there were quite a few examples of movement as the day went on. For example, there were a lot of natural geographic features, like the Wild Cucumbers we found on the walking trail. There were also several variations of mushrooms, with many different colors and shapes. This can be considered movement because the definition of this theme of geography is “the movement of people, things, and ideas across the Earth (both to and from). The wild cucumber is native to North America, and now it can probably be found in every forest in New England, as well as other states scattered throughout the U.S., same with the mushrooms. Of course, it was also out first day at Cardigan, and we rode on the bus from Hopkinton, New Hampshire to Alexandria, New Hampshire.