The rural immersion trip to Padamdungri was an experience for me to understand how the rural areas functions and how they use their resources wisely staying in a jungle area. I experienced different activities like farming, warli art, forrest walk, and teaching the school children.

LO2 – Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills: During the trip, I developed a lot of new skills like farming, lipan art, warling painting and even learning about different forrest species. All these were a new experience to me as I was doing them for the first time. Few challenges that became constraints during the process were, collaboration and efficiency in completing tasks on time.

LO3 – Initiate and plan a CAS experience: During the trip we were asked to present a skit in the local school in the region of Padamdungri. I along with my classmates initiated a skit performance showcasing peer pressure and how children these days come under pressure and do things which are highly unethical and not appropriate for their age. This experience that I initiated taught me collaborative skills.

LO5 – Demonstrate skills and benefits of working collaboratively: I used my collaborative and social skills throughout the strip while doing farming, preparing for the skit performance or while doing lipan art. I tried to connect with my peers more and perform all the activities together.

LO6 – Engagement with issues of global significance: The trip ensured that we understand about how resources can be well managed even if they are not in abundance to us. I understood the true meaning of quality education by teaching and playing games with the kids in the local school of the village. I even understood the idea of clean water and sanitation by seeing how people over there utilised water in so many different ways. Lastly, I understood the idea of responsible consumption and production of resources and how we can run our lives even with less resources.