onsite day

16/2/15

After a night of not much sleep (thanks uni timetables! ) I was up and getting ready for program at 7 am.  I treated myself to fried eggs for breakfast because I had time spare after I had gotten dressed. 

  Because we have almost 60 guests, almost all of whom are doing program, this week we are running two different programs simultaneously.  Today Rachael and I were running Onsite Day today for the group of Girl Guides from the UK, whilst Ana and Sarah were running the Ensligenalp Hike for the Scout group we have.  Unfortunately Rachael wasn't feeling great, she seemed to have a head cold so she went back to bed and I headed off with the other peeps on program to morning meeting at 8.30.  Chloe stepped in for Rachael and to together we planned our day.

First was opening ceremony for the three groups staying with us; a group of Scouts, and two groups of Guides, all from the UK.  Can you tell it's half term?!

The group of Guides we were running program for had lost their luggage on the way to the Chalet, as a result they had only the clothes they were wearing and no snow gear. This made onsite day a little hard! They had been told their luggage was on its way from Geneva and should arrive arrive at some point today, until then we had to be mindful!

In the morning we did swiss crafts.  Peg burning, Scissor cutting and snowflake making featured.  I did a scissor cutting of the Chalet and the mountains.  Between the three activities we kept them occupied until lunch time.

Whilst the group ate their packed lunch outside, staff had lunch inside... and what a surprise we had.leftovers!

After lunch it was campfire building and knives.  Rachael, feeling a little better joined us and we taught the group how to use knives and how to make fire wood and different sizes of kindling.  We also had a competition of who could build a fire and burn through a piece of string first.

 

We finished at about 2.45 pm and we were heading back to have a 15 min tea break when their luggage arrived! We decided to extend the tea break til 3.15.  This meant we could pack up and get the next activity ready without.rushing... sledging!

Sledging down Baby Chalet Hill turned out to be quite hard. The snow was quite deep and had not been compacted so you ended up sliding off your sled alot! After a while we decided to change activities and build igloos as well.  This ended in a competition between members of the group to build the tallest igloo. 

 

We finished off the day with dinner of Alpine Mac. After clean up Rachael and I had.some down time watching Downtown Abbey!