On the 20th of September we departed the school , loaded our bags and began our three hour bus journey to Delphi . When we reached the Wild Atlantic Hostel we were greeted by a member of staff and brought to ' The Den ' . Here we went through the rules , got our room numbers and our groups for the next three days . Half of the year were brought on a bus to the beach where they went surfing while the other half went to do the high ropes .
There were three different obstacles at the high ropes . One of them was walking across a wire , holding onto hanging ropes to keep your balance followed by a ladder up to a wooden beam . The second one was a small platform about 25ft high . The four members of the group had to climb to the top of the platform one by one , once all four were at the top they had to lean back as far as they could and try to balance . The third one was climbing to the top of another small platform and jumping off of it aiming to hit one of two balls hanging above it .
When we arrived back to the hostel we had time to unpack and shower before we were called to the ' Grub Hub ' for our dinner . After dinner we were split into our groups again and brought off to do another activity , one group stayed at the activity centre and played games while the other group were brought off to the tunnels . The tunnels consisted of a serious of tunnels joined together with different obstacles inside . When we returned from our activities we had time to talk to our classmates and have supper before we were sent to our rooms at 10:30 , all lights were out at 11:00 .
We were woken up at 8:00 the next morning and called for breakfast , after breakfast we packed our bags and got our lunches for the long day ahead ! We were all loaded onto a bus and brought off to do our 27km walk . After a good eight plus hours we finally finished the long walk over the mountains and returned back to the adventure centre exhausted ! We then got our dinner and went to do our final evening activity . We all sang songs , took pictures and talked around the campfire , we went back to the activity centre got our supper and went outside for the remainder of the night until we were called back in to go to our rooms .
On our final morning we were woken up at 7:30 to give us time to pack our bags before we went for breakfast and participated in our last activity . We were given our wetsuits and loaded onto a bus to the beach to go surfing while the others did the high ropes . We changed into our wetsuits and began our surfing lesson on land before advancing to the sea . Everybody did their best to try to stand up while surfing but it was much harder then we had anticipated !
After we returned from our activities we had our lunch and loaded our bags onto the bus where we began our three hour journey home . Overall I thoroughly enjoyed Delphi and thought it was really worthwhile . I thought it brought the year closer together and gave us an opportunity to get to know each other better . The only thing that I disliked about the experience was the food but luckily I brought my sandwich toaster .