This weekend I have been training for my D of E bronze award. And for those who do not know what D of E is it basically means we have to spend 2 days and 1 night walking and camping somewhere in Sussex. Anyway this weekend we have been preparing for it and it has not been easy. Yesterday we spent the day at school from 8:30 - 4:00 (yes school on a Saturday is not fun!) and we learned how to use a camping stove, pack a rucksack, basic first aid, navigate our way around using a map and a compass and put up a tent. It was a long day but I learned some valuable skills which will come in useful in later life. Then today we went on a two hour walk on Devils Dyke and no jokes but it was the hardest thing ever! For the expedition we have to be in groups and in my groups there are seven of us (me and my best friends sasha, eloise, milly, ange, george and harriet) and we had to take in turns navigating our way around. The first person to navigate was milly and she ended up leading us down the steepest hill EVER and I ended up falling over twice! After that is was pretty straight forward until about half an hour before the end when we came across a field which, instead of walking round it like normal people, we decided to go straight through it only to find a barbed wire fence at the end, but we found a hole so managed to climb through it rather than walking back. Then came the worst of it. We had to walk about 1km completely uphill and we all collapsed once we got to the top! But overall my first D of E weekend experience has been really fun!
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