Project week
Every November, MUWCI organises a project week for the students. Everyone can choose between many different projects to do. It consist to travel quite far from school and learn new things through what we do. Between all the possibilities that were given to us, i choose to go to the project “GOA jungle engagement”. Our goal was to see how a human can live in the jungle, study the impact of human activity on the jungle and how to be in symbiose with the nature. We were the last group to leave campus on Saturday (1st of November) evening. We traveled all night till GOA in a sleeper bus. For those who don’t now what it is, a sleeper bus is a very famous type of in India where you find private confortable beds to sleep during the travel. We arrived in the morning at Palolem beach.
Palolem Beach in GOA
Our guide Emmanuel, in charge of the organisation of our trip, was waiting for us. After a short briefing on the day’s program, we all went swim in the clear blue water of Palolem. I still remember this wonderful landscape that is offered to our eyes when we are there. After chilling on the sand and eating some good food at a beach restaurant, Manu (Emmanuel) took us to the guest house in the jungle. The accommodation was pretty nice and the people very kind. On Monday and Tuesday, we went trekking in the jungle and some rivers. We jumped from waterfalls several times. Jumping is an amazing experience. I personally felt like i was in an other world for the 2 seconds passed in the air before reaching the water.
Canyoning in the jungle
On Wednesday, we walked around the guest house to discover the faune and the fore of the jungle. Manu explained how bad is the deforestation and how rich is the jungle biodiversity. We ate red aunts just after the walk. It was the first time i put an insect into my mouth. Red aunt have a good lemon taste. I never thought that an insect can taste like a fruit… We spent the rest of the day at the beach. We were free to go anywhere we want for the day and the evening. With two of my friends, we sat in a restaurant to drink fresh pineapple juice enjoying a good conversation in front of the waves. We slept in a guest house at the beach. The food was really good and we had a good time. On Thursday, we were splitter into 2 groups. Each one of them was going in a different place to practise canyoning. I was going to a place named “Biju”. It is a very high waterfalls composed by many little ones. We rappelled and we jumped from the top point till we reached the ground. It took us the whole day and it was a bit tiring. We spent the night in a guest house near by. Finally, on Friday, we went for our last jungle experience of the week: a 5 hours walk into the dense forest and a passage through a 75m high waterfall. We went again to the beach at the end of the day to stay for the last night of the project week. The next day, Saturday, was a free day. Everyone went to beach for the day. I went to a little market near by the beach to buy some traditional clothes typical from Goa. After this nice relaxing day, we had to come back o the school buy taking again the sleeper bus. This night was the birthday of a very good good friend named Hani. We was turning 16 years old. So, before leaving, with Jak (another friend close to Hani), we went to a bakery to buy a cake for him. At midnight, when everyone was sleeping, we took the cake o his compartment and began to sing by whispering “happy birthday Hani…”. We finally arrived on Sunday morning to school, we were the first group to come back so the campus was really empty. We met, after a few hours, the others and began to share our project week experience. A lot of other projects seemed to be really interesting too. There was a trek in the himalayas, some people went to help NGOs in Pondichery and many other parts of India. They principally traveled by train for more than 24 hours. That can give you an idea of the distance from the school. I’ll try to collect some links of other friends who went it this projects to show you more about this special days passed in India.
A typical Goan shirt
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