Scary cows!

The weather has been hot, hot, hot! No need for thermals today. After a hearty breakfast of eggy bread, cereals, fruit and yogurts we set off for day one of the river study. We are in two teaching groups and so went to two sites in the upper course of the Souteryan. All students completed a pilot study to test out equipment such as a clinometer, flow meter as well as looking at how salt solutions could test velocity. Miss Habib's class had some scary visitors, cows! Sam, our field study leader scared them off so we could continue. We walked back to the centre and had carb overload of french baguettes for lunch and then walked off our lunch with a two mile hike uphill! The girls will be coming back with thighs of steel. We went to the summit and mapped land use using French maps and the stunning views. After walking back down the road we then wearily climbed in to the coach to head to Pont de Mont Vert (bridge of the green mountain)in order for the lower sixth to examine the risk of flooding to the settlement. Our three course evening meal of soup, lasagne and raspberry tart is laying on the stomach as we construct cross sections of the river and collate our data from the pilot study. All the girls seem to be coping without their social networking and are enjoying themselves.