Biology Trip to Switzerland...

For activity week at the beginning of July, Year 10 (9th grade) journeyed to Montreux, Switzerland. Ironically, my father was there at the same time to play with the Stanford Jazz Band at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Despite several teachers trying to figure out how to get Veronica into town so she could see him, it didn’t work out.

Since this was a biology trip, the kids conducted a variety of experiments in different climatic conditions including a river, meadow, mountain and glacier.

They took a gondola up the mountain and then a chairlift down to Glacier 3000, named for its location at 3,000 meters (9,850 feet). This trip was a lot of work compared to previous school trips, but Veronica still really enjoyed it.