Over the weekend, rock climbing gear was set up in the gym! It's exciting - in my whole six-year school life, I've never had anything like this. Last year, the most serious thing we did was floor hockey and indoor soccer. Soccer? Almost everyone knows how to play soccer. Volleyball? Badminton! Forget about it! Rock climbing, should I have even thought of it being in the school curriculum, would have been a dream. And now, our class will have four rock-climbing classes!
At least, I think it's four classes. Pity, really, that they can't stay longer. But then again, after that comes Christmas Break - and there's no way skiing is part of our gym mark. Enter Blue Mountain!
Here's how it went down:
1) Fastening helmets and harness
2) Rules
3) Teach us how to move up and down on the ropes.
4) Rope climbing!
I should point out there are three levels of this thing: up to the instructors' shoulders, height of the basketball net, and aaaaaaalllll the way to the top: the very roof of the gym. The first two are ropes and harness: the roof-height one is the actual climbing wall. I didn't get to the wall yet; since we were all in a hurry, and it took a chunk out of the lesson to teach us to put on the harness, attach ourselves to ropes and pull ourselves up, etcetera. But it was really fun. I want more! So I've decided to join the rock-climbing club.
.A.
ReplyDeleteI wish we could have Rock Climbing as a unit.
Our school is full of teachers with unrealistic due dates for projects and unrealistic expectations.
And by the way you made a typo in "climing," it's *climbing