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Sunday, July 19th

First day of the camp ! Everyone arrived at almost the same time at Saint-Pancras where Emilia welcomed us. In the meantime, Theo and two participants doing 2 camps in a row, did some shopping for lunch. We all met at Canada Water and ate picnic. We introduced ourselves and discussed our expectations for the week.

After lunch we went to the hostel to check in and settle in the rooms. Then we went outside to play more introducing games, eat fikka (afternoon snack) and discover the program for the week. We had to do challenges to practice our introduction skills.

For dinner we ate pizza and chocolate cake. In the evening, some went « foxsighting » while others would watch the FIFA finale between Argentina an Spain.

Monday, July 20th

Today, after our morning forum and reading exercises, we headed off to Canary Wharf, London’s second economic center. Its skyscrapers where erected atop of the filled in docks, the Isle of Dogs being one of London’s most important docklands for a few centuries. This led us to visiting the London docklands museum where we learnt about the history of these key gateways to Britain’s maritime, commercial and imperial dominance, the industry and people who worked on the docks, it’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, its crucial role during the Second World War and how they were modernised and reorganised after becoming obsolete. Learning about our neighbourhood’s history is a key to understanding its population and wildlife today

Back at the hostel, the teenagers had some free time to rest, play games or chat before dinner, after which we shared our words of the day, spoke about the importance of rigorous statistics when conducting a science protocol and went out to go « fox-sighting ».

Tuesday, July 21st

This morning started off with our usual forum allowing us to share how we feel, if we slept well, our ambitions for the day, as well as a few energising games. After a walk through the neighbourhood and to the shop for our picnic, we headed to Camley nature reserve, a coal deposit used to fuel St Pancras’s steam engines, turned into a biodiverse park. Here, the teenagers learnt about 4 different ecosystems present in the park : meadows, forests, wetlands, and reed beds.

After a good lunch, we headed over to Camden Town, where we had 2 hours of free time to explore this vibrant neighbourhood.
Côme and Lalo were our Underground travel guides on our way home where we debriefed on key notions about ecosystems, how they function and how they benefit us. We had some nice Greek chicken flatbread for dinner after which we headed back out to share our words of the day and interview a few strangers about foxes (we even saw a few wild foxes).
Off to bed to be fresh for a day at either the natural history museum or the science museum tomorrow !

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