Emma working with friends to make bricks. Her favorite activity!
Climbing a four story treehouse!
Auroville
Mosquito netting over their beds (i.e. natural ventilation!)
Sleeping quarters. Isn't this the ultimate camp out???This week Emma spent three days at EcoDunes, near Pondicherry, which is about 2 hours from here. This was the sixth grade field trip. EcoDunes is 30 acres with beachfront inhabited by several species of plants, birds, etc. Vanishing plant life has been replanted here and it features a waste-water treatment plane, solar hot water, natural ventilation (i.e. open huts!) and a demo farm developed through the NGO "Children of the World India". They took hikes, learned how to compost, how to make bricks, bake bread, make pottery and also had time for fun like volleyball and swimming. They also visited Auroville which "wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity."
Emma had a great time but was glad to be back home. Here a link to Auroville if you'd like to read more:
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