Outdoor+Program

**Outdoor Program**
There are a lot of outdoor programs after school. It is not required to join the outdoor program, but students volunteer to join it. The idea of the outdoor program is to make students more responsible for themselves. The teachers treat students just like other adults. Students have to turn in their permission forms on time or else they can’t go on the trip. Students need to bring their own gear or else they will get cold in the mountains. Let me just introduce you some of the outdoor program outings.

Students need to bring their own gear, which is a tent, warm clothes, food, a rain jacket…etc. The weight of the bag is about fifteen Kg, which is not really heavy. However, we need to carry it and walk for four miles uphill. That will be a great trip. Students can learn how to set up a tent, how to cook in the mountains, and how to get clean water to drink. We cannot learn these experiences from books.
 * Backpacking:[[image:DSC01019.jpg width="225" height="165" align="right"]]**

Every snow season, the school will organize a ski bus to take the students to the mountains to ski. A lot of students from southern countries don’t know how to ski. They can use this chance to learn how to ski. Teachers and other students who know how to ski will be willing to teach students who don’t know how. It is very fun. The speed of the skis is the most amazing part. Human beings can go over 60 km/hr just by the boards under their feet. Geocaching is a fun sport. A lot of people play this game. People hide treasures somewhere in the woods. Then they report the coordinates of the treasures online. We can look on the Internet and copy down the coordinates. Then we just use a compass and a map and try to find the treasures. Students can learn how to use compasses and how to read maps.
 * Friday night ski bus:**
 * Day hiking- Geocaching:**