Youreka, the experience beyond patience

On april 16th Marijke and I, where taking the flight from Delhi towards the south of India, Bangalore, a busy city, heart of the development in south India. We where hired by a company to work on summer camps in the backcountry. Marijke went to Coorg (kurg) and I went to Yercaud.

Marijke worked as a Skill leader on a mountain bike program. She worked two programs 8 days each, back to back. She went through all kind of situations, dealing with 12 - 15 year old kids to fixing bikes and fight with snakes!
Myself, I had to lead a whole campus, my title was, Campus Chief, I supposed to manage my kingdom, I don't know if I succeeded. I think I do.
Marijke and I feel very satisfied and happy, we learned a bunch of stuff. We will publish some photos soon.
Basically the camps or programs last 8 days, o which 2 days are only travel, in and out, 6 days of work with children. Youreka runs programs for kids from 9 to 11 years old and 12 to 15 years old in the south (coorg and yercaud) in the North the people are elder, I think up to 17th years old.
The daily activities are based on a curriculum created by IDiscovery, the holding, experts on education, phsicologist,outdoor educators, technicall skill instructors with excellent background, work as instructors, CC or at the board, running this company.
The day is divided by two main activities, Majors and Minors, the first are focuse on phisycally and mental challenges such as Rock Climbing, rappeling, tree climbing, tyrolean traverse, Up stream hike, back packing, Survival techniques, slac line, jumaring, Mountain biking, Rafting and other games at campus, the afternoon is dedicated to developed skill on manual arts, such as tie and Dye, painting, skills with hands, juggling and POI, among others. At 4:30 pm the students have S and S, Solo and Sharing moment, on which they will fill they Cool Books and then will share with other students and instructors their feelings, experience of the day, etc...
Marijke job as Skill leader was a little bit more stresfull but way far more active, mine was very relaxed, but at times boring. Anyway the experience of doing this type of work in a foreign country with such a different culture was challenging. I think we succeeded because we both feel happy and satisfied!