I’ve been home for about two weeks now and have finally had some downtime which I’ve reflected on the last month. Over the course of the trip, I found that there was so much going on that I was never able to find much time to really think things through and evaluate how I was…

Hi everyone! So I originally wrote this on the plane ride home and then forgot I never posted it because, well, I was on the plane. The last couple of days have been jam-packed with experiences, and although I was a bit tired and ready to come home, overall I still had a great time…

We didn’t really do a lot since my last blog post two days. Yesterday was a great free day to hang out with the group and have some free time and fun. After a late start, Simon, Ramsey, Thomas, Chris, Mitch, and I decided to go to the gym at the main Woodstock School campus….

Since my last blog entry, we went on our ten-day trek! It was an amazing experience, and I think I learned a lot, not all of which I’ve fully come to digest yet. I’ll summarize the main points of interest briefly, but covering all of them would be way too much to write. On the…

The last blog post was yesterday, so there isn’t much to discuss regarding the happenings at the Hanafil Center. Today was a pretty mellow day, we discussed risk prevention and nutrition before we finalized what we were packing for the ten-day trek. We portioned out the food we needed for the ten days, breaking large…

Since my last blog post, we went into the town of Mussouri and the group went on our one-night shakedown trek. Wednesday we spent most of the morning preparing for the next day’s hike, packing our bags, and learning what the trek would entail. After lunch, we then went on a three-mile walk into town….

The last few days have been spent working on getting our WAFA (Wilderness Advanced First Aid) certificates and today was the last day. Everyone passed! The last few days were definitely the most trying and exhausting yet of the trip, eight hours of intense learning and training certainly takes it out of you. Sleep has…

We’ve now been in Mussoorie for three whole days at the Hanafil Center and we’ve done a lot. Every day starts with breakfast at 7:30 and ends with a group reflection at around 7 pm. We’ve got about an hour for meals in there, but that’s the only free time we have. It’s been a…

After a 14-hour flight to Delhi and then a 7-hour drive up the winding roads of the Himalayan foothills, we finally made it to our home for the next two weeks, Mussoorie, India. The journey certainly wasn’t without its challenges, however, it went smoothly overall. From getting through airport security in no time at all,…