I woke up and got all of my gear together. I put all of my gear and food in bags and got ready for my friend’s mom to pick me up. I was extremely excited to go, but I wasn’t excited to haul all of the gear 2km. I remembered the pain and suffering we had to go through in Blue Mountain, and that was only 1km. My friend’s mom picked me up and we got to school, I realized that I had forgotten on of my lunches! In our food barrel we had so much extra room! We learnt how to really pack! We all got our gear loaded on the bus and it was so funny because my one friends way over packed! It looked like she was packing for a yearlong trip! I sat with one of my perspective group members. We read our assigned readings on the way up. Everyone was so much quieter because we were all reading (and we didn’t want to get yelled at by the bus driver!) I’m sure that the bus driver was proud of us! We arrived at Batoche after going over some rickety bridges. The bridges made me feel like a pirate; slowly taking a careful step, cautiously checking for any cracks that I could possibly fall through! I loved it! It was so dusty; I thought I was going blind! I could barely see three feet in front of me. There were also a lot of hay bales. We loaded our gear on our backs, and headed off for the river where we were to stay and camp there. I carried the tent! It was a lot easier to carry than the food barrel at Blue Mountain. It was so challenging because we could not help any of the other teams, so it kind of went against my pledge to the class (I will help anyone who is struggling). We had to always stay in our perspective groups. I could slowly feel blisters forming again as we walked further and further. It felt like someone was slowly ripping the skin off the back of my heels. I realized that I should probably get new hiking boots. I was so tired and my shoulders were aching. I wished that I would’ve worn fewer jackets. After two grueling hours, we finally made it to our camp and we set up the tents. The wind was just howling, and it even pulled one tent right out of the ground! It landed right on my head and I almost got a peg to the eye! That would’ve been terrible. I really did not want to use the trees as my bathroom, but I had to go! It was very awkward and there were so many prickle bushes everywhere. The thorn bushes reminded me of the cabin where the prickle bushes are so thick, you can barely see through them. We ate lunch and sat down to soak up all of the work we had accomplished. I really didn’t want to move our location again. Then we got the call. We had to travel four kilometers back to another campsite! This was because we didn’t have federal clearance or something like that. This sounded a bit fishy to me, but it had to be done! We quickly packed up all of our gear, and I was devastated. I didn’t want to leave; my feet were dying, and I was so tired I could barely get up! The task was a lot easier when we found out that we could work together as a team. We got going up at whole lot of steep slippery uphills. I kept thinking of the song “The Climb” by Miley Cyrus. It talks about how it isn’t about how fast you get there, or what’s waiting on the other side, it the climb that counts; how you get there. I always try to stay positive, and this particular time I sang songs with one of my friends to pass the time. Even though I was pretty much dying, and my blisters wee slowing me down, I knew I had to keep pushing forwards. I could not let my team down. One girl sprained her ankle and it was not good. She had to discontinue her stay at Batoche. I was so delighted to reach our new camp. I couldn’t believe that we had just hiked over 6 kilometers! My team and I quickly set up our tent. We were right in between some cabins, and it felt like they were bragging to us; saying ha, ha, ha, you can’t sleep here! It was a bit intimidating. My other group members made supper and me and another girl ate supper by ourselves. The boys wanted us to clean the whole supper, but I only offered to clean the pot. Then they said that we weren’t allowed to clean. I was getting very frustrated. I was also confused. It was getting darker by the minute, and the moon was getting so orange and giant. It looked just like a fully inflated basketball! I felt like the moon was protecting me. I was getting excited for the lunar eclipse. We were sitting around the fire when we got another phone call. The lady who lived at Batoche told us that we were at the wrong cabins. I was so shocked I didn’t know what to think! Did we have to move again, and so late? My teachers told us to send letters to her to persuade her to let us stay. Some people went to the lady’s house and we waited. I was so nervous that we would have to move. I didn’t was to move at all, and it was already ten o’clock! The letter writers came back. We have to move. NOT AGAIN!! I was so in shock I couldn’t believe we had to leave. I wanted to cry and scream and go to sleep. My one teacher called us all over. He was very quiet and then said, “we planned this all.” WHAT!! Did we have to move or not? I was so surprised that they could pull this off. There was a reward to this though; we got to sleep in cabins! I was extremely happy I could’ve fainted! It was so amazing, and the cabins were even heated! I quickly moved all of my sleeping gear into the cabin. For once I was happy to sleep on the cold, hard cement! I was so tired I quickly hopped into bed and drifted into a deep sleep. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! One girl’s alarm went off at 4:30 to wake us up for the lunar eclipse. I imagined it to be so bright at red, but it was an orangey brown color. It looked exactly like fallJ. It was very beautiful and mysterious, I pondered for a couple minutes on why it was so orange. I went back to bed after a couple minutes and finished my amazing sleep.
This is a video about the lunar eclipse
This is a video about the lunar eclipse