boris

29/1/15

If you didn't gather by how excited I got when I named the linen cupboard after myself,  everything at the Chalet has a name.  Boris, as I am sure you are all wondering, is the snow plow of the Chalet. At morning meeting we were told that there would be an opportunity to learn to drive Boris that afternoon.  We were also given our daily tasks and cleaning duties.The main task was deep cleaning the kitchen again.  

This morning we tried a new thing called the 'joy jar' - a collection of paper slips are in a plastic jack-o-lantern pumpkin (it was as close to a jar as we could get).  We had to pick one each out of the jar and read it silently, before returning it to the 'jar'.  They all read different little things we could do to bring joy to other staff members days.  Mine was to randomly stick post-it-notes around the place with happy things on them.  I wrote things like 'Born Free, now expensive', 'when I count my blessings, I count you twice'.

  Scenic pic of the day: Our Chalet with Snow!

Whilst having a break in the T-Bar Filming, Rachael and I decided to do some more filming for our video.  It was the 'fake relaxing scene', where we were all sitting relaxing and we all cross our legs at the same time and drink tea (from empty cups) at the same time!

That afternoon Migue had planned to teach 2 of us, Ana and I, how to drive Boris, Sarah was finishing her run and joined along the way.  We got to earn an extra point on our Staff Challenge, by shoveling the snow off the car park bitumen.

 

 

At 3 pm we had a date Skyping the volunteers at Paxlodge, Bethany from Australia, Susanna from Columbia, Aubrey from New Jersey, USA, Amelia from Canada and Paty from Brazil.  

We talk and were taken on  a virtual tour of Paxlodge (though the internet didn't work very well!), then we took them on a mini tour of the Chalet and the new found snow! Susanna got very excited about the snow!

If you would like to follow the travels of Paxlodge's volunteers, Aubrey is blogging her adventures on Facebook underneath the page "A Girl Scout in London".

Here is a link: https://www.facebook.com/aGirlScoutinLondon?ref=ts&fref=ts

Dinner was Rostti and Ratatouille and dessert mini doughnuts.  After dinner we had 'Chloe's Game Night'.  We played games such as Over and Under with a balloon....  

Relay's by pushing the balloon with your nose up to the end of the dinning hall and back again... 

  

The weirdest of them all - Picking up the cereal box with your mouth, without anything but your feet touching the floor. There were some interesting techniques! I got all the way to the finals before I fell over, I couldn't pick up the flat piece of cardboard off the floor!

 

And 'Shark' - everyone sits in a circle around the parachute, one person is the life guard who runs around the outside and the other is the shark underneath the parachute.  The shark attempts to pull people under the parachute and 'kill' them, the life guard attempts to hold them above the parachute.  if the life guard manages to hold on and save the 'drowning' person they survive to stay on the edge of the parachute, if the shark wins the person 'dies' and becomes another shark.