I climbed a table this afternoon. I know at this point I was hoping to have climbed at least a Swiss peak, but a table in the dining room of Our Chalet is pretty much as far as I`ve gotten in the three days I´ve been here.
If you don´t dream first and foremost of climbing a Swiss mountain, then you should. They`re big, they have lots of snow according to Google images, and the von Trapp family escaped over them. Therefore, it would come as a suprise to me when the first thing I climbed upon arriving in Switzerland was, in fact, a table. To be technical, we also climbed two jungle gyms in the little town of Adelboden when we went looking for shampoo the other day, but if you`ve ever tried to climb the entire way around a table without touching the floor, then I think you know how many bragging rights I`ve just earned.
Switzerland is seriously better than I imagined it would be, down to every snow-dusted peak, sloping chalet roof, and sunrise from the bathroom window. The unexpected things are the type of adventures and friendships that have cropped up with the oddest bunch of misfits who make up our little group of summer volunteers. Today we discussed feminist Girl Guiding and the relative merits of various staff challenges we can take. If we hit 80 points at the end of the summer, we get the staff challenge badge. Climbing around a dinning table is 1 point, and during our free time two of us made it- I´ll post the epic pictures when I can figure out how technology works on this continent. Our Chalet is truly full of everything that makes Girl Scouting and Guiding meaningful, empowering and fun, and table climbing is just the start.
Tomorrow we climb through an oven and write a poem about the experience.
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