Sightseeing & Challenge - Winterthur

Day 3 at Winterthur

The last day in Winterthur was a typical “Scouting-Day”. In the morning in three workshops we learned how to make a tent out of tent tarpaulins, we had a “on rope-course” and a “firstaid2-Workshop. After the workshops we continued within the forrest and build our own tents for the night. LunchtimeJ

After lunch we went back to the forrest and played a hunter-game. All groups had their own base with wooden sticks to defend an colored bracelets to pull off. The goal was to steel the wooden sticks from the others and collect as many bracelets as possible. With the conquered bracelets we could buy ingredients for our Dinner with the group at our tents. The more bracelets we had the more we had to cook with. When the game was over we had to search for our desert (bananas and chocolate to cook at the campfire) within the forrest by compass. That was really hard.

In the evening we were sitting at the campfire and sang a lot of songs. Florian, a friend of the leaders came to support with his guitar. After singing, eating chocolate-bananas and marshmallows we slept in our tents and hammicks within the forrest. That was a new experience for everybody.

At the beginning of Day two in Winterthur the Weather was bad. Many clouds and it wasn’t so warm. So we decided to cancel the days program at the swimming pool. We went to the city of Zürich instead. The Leaders planned a challenge day for the groups.

We still had to do the weekly challenge: Interview with a pedestrian who lives in the city telling us what is special about the city and why he / she likes living there.

We became many Challenges to solve Like:

-          Going up inside the Grossmünster and make a Selfie on the tower

-          Making a picture with a family living in Zürich who has two children

-          Finding out the meaning of Swiss German words (Züridütsch)

-          Cutting bread an buying food for the group in the city with a small budget and having lunch together

-          And many more

After the challenges we splittet up in two groups. One group went to do more sightseeing and shopping. The other group went to the lake for a swim with some leaders, as the weather got better.