It was a pretty chilly morning and I was carrying
my huge Eurohike backpack heading towards the door, while other Arthur Tattersall's residents might still in bed, in their deep sleep, or enjoying their sweet dreams. I felt so excited to start this brand new adventure yeayyyyyyyy (despite being nervous about having to stuck with
people in a new place with people I just knew for a few days…. But wait, isn’t
it just the same feeling when we have to go for leadership camp or educational
camp in Malaysia -_- lol)
After 10 minutes of walking, (yeah I am kind of lucky to be
granted an accommodation which is just 10 minutes away from my institute hehe) I
finally got to put my hand carry stuffs down, which are my sleeping mat and
wellington boots that I didn’t even use during the camp and my sleeping bag.
Around 8.30 a.m our coaches arrived, it took us about 15 minutes to put our equipment
in, and goodbye London!!! See you soon!
The journey to Chichester reminded me of Kuala Lumpur,
because there are constructions almost everywhere in London. You can see a
crane with bars and steels at one side of a road, and when the bus pass another
road you can see another crane at a different construction site. Nevertheless,
an obvious thing that I love the most about this city I am currently residing
in is definitely, ALL THE GREEN PART OF LIFEEEEEE aka, PARKSSSSSSSS!! I really
really really love going to parks in London, sadly the big Hyde Park is 30
minutes away by tube from my house. Luckily we have a Gordon Square Garden right beside the Institute of
Archaeology which is quite a nice place to spend some time with my friends
while waiting for the next lecture to start.
I didn’t realise when did we get out of London because I
fell asleep, and only woke up to see the word ‘Chichester’ on a sign board. Along Chichester
Road, I know there are some agricultural activities that take place on both
sides of the road but I am not really sure what crops are grown there. It is
somewhat similar to paddy fields in front of my grandma’s house in Kuala
Kangsar, but I don’t think they grow paddy in Chichester…? Or I might be wrong.
The ‘kinda paddy field’ view reminded me of my family holiday trip to Laman
Padi Langkawi in Kedah, the rice bowl of Malaysia, and I guessed I got to stop
thinking about it before I get homesick XD
That attempt was a complete failure because after that we
were passing by a very beautiful valley, which took me back to the time of
another holiday trip to Genting Highlands. As far as I remember we have a
family picture taken at the tea valley with my red sweater, last 10 years ago. Hahaha,
obviously this trip won’t help me not getting homesick.
We reached West Dean College at quarter to 11, if I am not
mistaken. I shared a tent with my new friend, Molly, because I didn’t get to
buy one. We pitched the
4-person tent together, and had lunch before we start our first activity of our 'Primitive Technology' camp. So basically as the name goes, this camp is designed to be informative about activities undertaken by people in the past.
All the activities offered were so interesting but
unfortunately, we would not be able to experience all of them. There are flint
knapping, metal smelting, structure construction, archery, spear making, Stone
Age arts, textiles, crop processing, time capsule, suitcase of wonders, cheese
making and also foraging. There might be some other activities that I do not remember
but all of them sounds so exciting to me. I wish I could have done every
activity that were held to be as primitive as I can XD but we were staying at West Dean only for four days, and all activities were only
carried out in the day. Therefore each person could only go for a total of 5
activities throughout the camp.
So, which activity did I opt for? (Or which one did I get to sign up for haha)
Stay tuned for my next
post, insya Allah.
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