Yale outdoor education

July 3, 2015 Friday  sunny  (Junia has written this long ago, but now she adds pics to it and has it published.)

There will be the outdoor education today. We are somewhat excited at the idea of participating in it.
But first, we have doubt about American's punctuality. We are supposed to get on the bus at 10:30 or 10:45 with different information we've got. But the school bus came at about 11.

Getting on the bus, we saw a cute, cute, cute little boy of about 4, just like one jumping from a children's book. He beamed so friendly that I felt my heart melt. I couldn't help but reach to touch his hand, hehe. The school bus driver was very amiable. Although we guess it must be a children's school bus borrowed by Yale for the summer session for we saw the paper Christmas tree hanging above the driver's seat, and a cute girl's photo. Lorrie told me it is the custom for American drivers to hang their children's photo in the car.
After 1 and a half hour's ride, we finally got to the Private Yale Location for the outdoor education. This is not the kind of education we heard back in China. The outdoor education is just for fun, no morals to learn. If you want one, that might be life is colorful: study hard and play hard, enjoy intellectual life and the world's beauty and leisure at the same time.
Getting off the bus, we first saw dear Carrie and then food. It is the first time those who rented staying place had the kind of food of Yale dinning hall. They thought it was too rich and warned us of gaining weight with this kind of meal.
Then we went canoeing. Two or three of us were in a canoe, paddling through the beautiful river water. The water was clean, the trees were refreshing, the sun was bright, and the air is breezing. I even wanted to take the risk of switching seats so that each one of us three got the chance to paddle. If we fell into the water, "the life jacket can keep you for a while before the safeguard comes". And I just wanted a little bit to have the adventure to fall and be rescued---what an experience it would be! But the idea was immediately refused by the other two of the group.
Then we took photos with each other, with dear Siggy and Carrie...
To tell the truth, If I can choose, I'd rather like to stay there, all by myself, and just stare at the water, the mountain, and the sky for a whole day or even longer without any thinking or worry or anything.(photo by Marina)