It's All About the River Today with the Kids from Elizabeth Moir

An early departure from Colombo for 33 students and 4 teachers from Elizabeth Moir School in Colombo for their first Youth Leadership Camp with Borderlands.

We're really excited to welcome these wonderful young adults who have really entertained us today - a really great bunch of kids - smart, funny, up for anything and definitely won't let a few leeches get in the way of an awesome time.

As always, and mainly for the parents at home, here is a brief update on the Day 1's activities:

Borderlands welcomed the students with an immediate introduction to the reason Kithulgala is such a hit with visitors world wide - a great trip on the river by raft - unlike anyone else though we make sure that the raft trip is more than a straight up and down the river - so plenty of time to play on the river

Some mid-air action!

Miss taking it in her stride!

and of course plenty of time to spend on the rapids

Yohan working the "Mahya" Rapid

Diana just doing her thang!

As we broke for lunch the searing heat gave way to some foreboding clouds, and has been the fashion over the last few days, the skies opened just as we entered the canyon, which was really in need of topping up the water levels - so a welcome downpour for the canyon, and it didn't seem the dampen the spirits of EM guys!

Taking a break in the Canyon

A very stormy canyon!

In between all the fun and games, there is a serious message that the student should be taking away with them from the day's activities - the importance of working together regardless of who is in your team, of helping one another, and not just those who are in one's immediate circle of friends and hopefully they have gotten to know some fellow students  abit better than they did before coming on this programme.

On top of this some will definitely have learned how to remove a leech as quickly as possible!

So far I think it's safe to say that the student, teachers and staff at Borderlands are having a blast!

Tune in tomorrow for an update Elizabeth Moir parents!

Over and out for now.