29!

Yes indeed, I have 29 bites on my right leg and foot, that is a crazy amount and they are driving me nuts, I must learn not to climb trees and pretend to be a monkey when there are lots of ant around.

So we are back from Yellagiri. Hello! There is a little person reading this so i am going to say HELLO!!! to him

Anyway yes back from Yellagiri. It was FANTASTIC!!! Sooooo much fun. We played lots of games, sang lots of songs, made some crafty things, had general silliness and ate good food. My group (James, Amy and myself) were leading the Twister activity, all the boys were split into four teams(Tgers, Snakes, Monkeys and Elephants) and moved around four different activities. Amy had made two giant twister mats and we basically had a lot of fun shouting out instructions(with handy tamil friendly cards)and making the boys get very twisted.

My highlights were: being an elephant, I adopted them as my team, they were rubbish! Appalling at all competreive gamnes, much like me, so I just cheered myself hoarse and fell in love with Baby Elephant, so adorable.

Also climbing the mountain(well, large rocky hill) behind the site. We went up to a place called bare rock, which does what it says on the tin, and had fantastic views. Then it was decided that we would go onwards and upwards, so we did, scrambling over boulders, avoided scratchy plants and bending double to go through narrow bush tunnels. At the top of the hill we heat a sheer rock face, but did it stop us? Of course not. Our guide whipped out a handy rope, climbed up, tied said rope around a boulder and up we went. I completely messed up the first bit, bashing my leg, so had to be half hauled up by my elbow to reach the rope, byut once up there the view was incredible. Bear in mind that Yellagiri is already about 1300m above sea level and we had just climbed even higher. The air was so clear and we were on a level with clouds, awesome!

The other best bit was the campfire on the last night. There was singing dancing and sketches, and of course we did our Balilaika dance complete with wobling tiger bellies. So much fun, and the boys loved the whole evening. It was great watchiong them dance around the fire , a really special evening.

But now I ghave to go as we are taking Rachel and Ruth, two girls here with Oasis, out for dinner and then to the cinema. Sadly though this time will not be a Regnikanth movie.

xx