2nd work placement

I'm back in school after some time off after my latest work placement. I suppose its about time I posted something about it, so i'll quickly tell about the first week.

On the last night of our ski trip we stayed in cabins so we could wash after a week of skiing and living in the forest and be relativly fresh for the long drive back. However, I wasnt going anywhere. Me and Heidi were going straight to our work training placement at Upitrek, which was handily enough in the same area we had been for the last week.

The details were a little sketchy tho, we wernt sure exactly where to go or at what time we were supposed be there? We didnt have to wait long to find out cos the next thing we knew there was a knock at the door. It was only our new boss telling us we were 2 hours late and needed to head straight to the nature centre. Good start. The nature centre was the hub of operations for the Hossa area, and the only shop in about 100km's.

We were put straight to work. Although my customers wernt arriving until the next night, I helped set up for Heidi's group of customers arriving that evening. We both had groups of 15-16 year old school kids from the UK on a multiactivity holiday week, so doing a little bit of everything.
Heidi's team were short on guides so instead of setting up for my group I helped them out for a few hours on they're first day of orienteering, fire making, ice fishing and snow cave building. It was good practise because I would be doing the same thing with my group the following day.

One of the games I organised was the fire making. The kids had to chop wood, make feather sticks, get a fire burning and keep it going to boil up some snow and make a cup of tea. The guys at the nature centre were doing all the catering for these groups and for the first time. They learnt straight away how much tea Brits drink after having to do a 200km round trip to get more tea from the nearest supermarket.

The next day my group of customers had arrived. Twenty, sixteen year old lads from a boys school in royal tumbridge wells. Me, Janne the other guide and Paul who came out with the group ran all the activities throughout the week. Day one was as with the other group, and after that we did days cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, visiting the local reindeer farm and more skiing and snowshoeing.

After giving a quick intro to skiing we went on a short ski route, and it was nice, some of the kids were so bad it actually made me look like a professional skier. In the afternoon we continued on a longer track and tackled a few hills.

We took them snowshoeing down some good hills and across a few lakes to get to our lunch spot on our way to our next accommodation where we had a winter olympics with more fire making sledge pulling our own version of biathlon and a load of other stuff.

The week passed pretty quickly, I was expecting it to be a nightmare, but it was actually a lot of fun.

Ive got no time to write anymore right now I have school work coming out of my ears, I'll carry on with the following week shortly.

Laters