Field Trip:
Last week, I went to Brotas, a town situated in the north-west of São Paulo. We spent four days there to study astronomy but we did other outdoor activities, like rafting and trekking.
Tuesday:
We take the bus at school at 8:30am to go to Brotas .
The trip last almost three hours and when we get to the Peraltas camp it was already lunch time. The monitors explained to us what the routine was there (which was like this : wake up at 8:00am, do an activity in the morning, lunch every day at 12:00am, than another activity in the evening (going to the planetarium ) after it we have a free time, then the dinner at 7:00pm or 8:00 pm and finally we have a last activity at night before the sleeping time).
After this we went to a distillery of cachaça, some students try it and they told it was good but I didn’t try it. Finally we saw the stars in the planetarium and a movie about the solar system at the CEU (center of studies of the universe)
Wednesday:
We woke up with the nice song of the counselors (I hate this song !). We had breakfast and next, we went to the observatory to learn, this was quite boring…
But next, we went to a waterfall, which was very entertaining and very cool! .Some of us took a bath in the waterfall. After this we went back to the CEU to learn a little bit more about the stars and we saw planets like Saturn and Jupiter.
Thursday:
We did rafting. That was really amazing. The water was very chilly but we didn’t care because we were enjoying the rafting a lot.
There, an instructor from the rafting place gave us all the needed instructions of security. We were divided in groups of six plus one instructor.I was in a boat with 3 other girls and with a boat leader who was really nice.
The river was quite calm in some parts but when there was little waterfalls, we went really fast! I loved it!
I want to do it again… every one should do it once in is his life…
So I think that this Field trip was really fun. I will remember it a long time.
