Alpha Groups for Phase Two

After a night of partying and the final results of our Team Changeover Challenge last night, the excitement continued this morning with the announcements of our new alpha groups for Phase Two of the expedition and their Project Managers. Please see below to find out who’s going where!

The Venturers relax for the evening at the 'School Disco'

Last night was Monnie’s birthday, which happily coincided with our changeover ‘School Disco’ and scrumptious barbeque.
Happy Birthday Monnie!






As a final round to our Changeover Challenge, each Alpha Group had to perform a five-minute ‘skit’, describing the events of Phase One in their group. Extra points were awarded for singing, dancing and costumes. All the groups had put in a massive effort to their performances and had been really creative with their ideas.

Alpha One had their own hilarious version to the song ‘Build Me Up Buttercup’; Alpha Two designed a play in the style of a Bollywood film, complete with singing and dancing as the final scene; while Alpha Three created a wonderful piece of musical theatre to describe daily events on trek. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner. The scores were added to the points accrued in the team challenges from the morning and the final results were as follows:

3rd Place: Alpha Three
2nd Place: Alpha One
1st Place: Alpha Two

A huge well done to all for a great evening of performances.

Venturers and staff then danced the night away under the stars to DJ spots by each Alpha group in turn.

Bryony







The School Boys Tom, Laurie and Charlie

Monnie the make-up artiste

Kirsty and Tessa

Alpha One Song (to the tune of ‘Build Me Up Buttercup’)

We started with bricks, cement, water and mix;
But you’re late, we wait around again;
Knocked-over the wall and took a big fall;
And they laughed and they laughed again (hey hey hey);
Gara Gara [cement in Kannada language] one more time;
The masons love us, it’ll all be fine;
The end of the day brings lots of smiles at the school (oohh oohhhh)

CHORUS
Why don’t we build it up, to the top maybe, with the masons help;
As long as they turn up for work on time;
They never quite turn up when they say they will;
We need Shiju, and you and you, to get all of the work done;
We will succeed as a team;
So build it up to the top, please don’t fall down.

Here are the new Alpha Groups for Phase Two:

Alpha One – Hosekerasunda Community Project

Sally Jupp (Project Manager)
Claire Morris (Project Manager)
Matt Mudford (Project Manager and Medic)
Kareem
Alice Tyler
Charlie Arnot
Christina Corder
Graham Watts
Kerala Adams-Carr
Kirsty Champion
Monnie Beresford
Srikanth
Tessa Voûte
Victoria Cayzer
Will Murray

Alpha Two – Nagarhole National Park Environmental Project

Suzanne Leamy (Project Manager)
Dom Short (Project Manager)
Kate Morten (Project Manager)
Aaron Henshaw
Bruno Weijenborg
Bryony Moody
Freya Brash
Georgia Forbes
Guy Dampier
Laura Sutcliffe
Sarah Frodsham
Sathyajith
Shiju
Tom Boles
Venetia Andrew

Alpha Three – Chattamunnar Trek

Hana Manthorpe (Project Manager)
Claire Lehman (Project Manager and Medic)
Jason Bolton (Project Manager and Medic)
Ali Clark
Arya Nair
Bella Watling
Flora Perry
Georgina Rumbellow
James Hudson
Josephine Riggs
Laurie Hedges
Maud de Mol van Otterloo
Olivia Hayward
Qathab
Thomasin Lockwood