We all left for Jornada on the 20th of July, straight after my kids holiday. Jornada is a retreat that every new class does about a month after they arrive in Santiago. Its a chance to create new bonds, talk about our experience so far and take a step back and look at what we are doing and why we are volunteering.
We left the smog in Santiago and went about an hour out of the city to Cajon Del Maipo which is in one of the mountains. We stayed in this old house which was huge and had heaps of rooms. They even had gas heaters which we were all quite amazed at.
We arrived around 5:30pm after a little exploring we discovered some interesting orange fruits on some of the trees. We were all a little peckish so we decided to try the fruits.
Tiffany climbed up the tree and shook heaps of them down, they were a little soft and we had to dodge them but i finally caught one and they were quite sweet, we still don't know what they were but they filled a hole. After our snack we selected our beds. I was in a room with Brian, Tiffany and D man. We all headed to a large meeting room with an open fire (although it wasn't lit) and began our activities. More Spanish. That was the beginning of Jornada, we were all starving by 10pm and we were finally fed, we were all then ready for dinner but there were more activities. we were put into smaller groups and i got a really good group with Tiffany, Brian, Chrystal, Janneke and our leaders were Lauren and Pablo.
We finally got to bed around 1:30am after a hilarious game of Spanish charades.
We left the smog in Santiago and went about an hour out of the city to Cajon Del Maipo which is in one of the mountains. We stayed in this old house which was huge and had heaps of rooms. They even had gas heaters which we were all quite amazed at.
We arrived around 5:30pm after a little exploring we discovered some interesting orange fruits on some of the trees. We were all a little peckish so we decided to try the fruits.
Tiffany climbed up the tree and shook heaps of them down, they were a little soft and we had to dodge them but i finally caught one and they were quite sweet, we still don't know what they were but they filled a hole. After our snack we selected our beds. I was in a room with Brian, Tiffany and D man. We all headed to a large meeting room with an open fire (although it wasn't lit) and began our activities. More Spanish. That was the beginning of Jornada, we were all starving by 10pm and we were finally fed, we were all then ready for dinner but there were more activities. we were put into smaller groups and i got a really good group with Tiffany, Brian, Chrystal, Janneke and our leaders were Lauren and Pablo. We finally got to bed around 1:30am after a hilarious game of Spanish charades.
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