Wednesday and Thursday we had finals, so most of those days were spent studying at AE and at coffeeberry, getting delicious cappuccinos and crepes! It feels so good to be done with finals (for two of my classes) and be able to focus on going to our service sites starting this Thursday!! We have our community engagement class today through Wednesday preparing us for serving at our selected sites.

Friday we left for our Battlefields Tour, which consisted of four battlefields in two days. We left early Friday morning and drove for a few hours on a VERY comfortable bus with reclining seats :) once we arrived at our first site we found out our bus was too heavy to drive up the hill, so naturally we all hiked up this very tall and long hill to get to the site, but it was worth it for the view! You could see for miles all the way around :)

That night we had a WONDERFUL meal at the hotel we stayed at (which was adorable in itself, it was almost Victorian–like and was fun to stay at). The soup, meat, vegetables, and DELICIOUS dessert was some of the best food we’ve had so far while being here.

The next morning we got started early again and visited two more battlefields, all of them are beautiful places and hard to imagine that battles occurred there.

This Sunday we had “Sunday Funday”! all the chalets had a team color and we had a relay race against each other, my chalet got third place – which is pretty good cause the first and second place were the boys chalets! Haha but before we did that we had a slip and slide on our lawn which was a lot of fun! We had races between the chalets and just had fun going on the slip and slide, there was only a few mild battle-wounds from it :)

All of the activities we do are so much fun, but I am learning that I need my alone time to be rejuvenated and to reflect on all that I have seen and learned so far. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here and cannot believe I’ve already been here for over a month!