We joined the group of students on top of a small cascading waterfall. One after the other we abseiled through the waterfall to the shore of the lake. It was nice to watch them getting splashed and soaked.

I was told to put the hood up before I descended into the waterfall so the water doesn't flush right through my clothes. The water made a lot of noise as it hit the waterproof clothes, especially the hood. This was very exciting. Only a little bit of water came in around my face.

Half way down was a plateau where I could stand in the waterfall for a moment. As I looked up my hood slipped back and a lot of water gushed in. I quickly put it back up to stay warm. From there I descended into the small eddy at the bottom of the waterfall. It was about waist deep. We all went down the waterfall a few times.

Finally we jumped into the lake. Swimming with all these clothes on was a bit hard but they kept us nice and warm. We didn't swim far anyway, just ran in and out of the lake, splashed or dunked each other, and relaxed in the shallow water. There was an old tree trunk from which we could jump into the lake. That was great fun.

The climbing wall has an area on the pool side where you can climb secured by ropes. Another area for free climbing reaches over the deep end of the pool. If you fall off you only hit the water, no problem.

Some of the college students were doing the rope secured climb, others started with the free climb. The goal was to climb up to the top from one pool side and come down to the other side. Some made it across, most fell in or jumped off and then rejoined the queue. It was nice to see all these wet students in a queue, dressed in their climbing kit.

Eventually I joined the queue to have a go myself. Some students were teasing me because I was still dry. Knowing my climbing skills I didn't expect to stay dry for much longer.

I reached the wall and climbed up a little bit. This was really hard on my fingers. I got as high as 3 meters when I lost my grip and fell into the pool. Giovanni made it across twice and then jumped into the pool right from the top.

The other group of students did some rope climbing game across the water. Often they fell in or jumped back into the pool and then tried again. It looked quite challenging because they were all dressed in their college sports kit, consisting of tracksuit bottoms, dark blue polo shirts and grey sweatshirts. That was fun to watch.

After our swim we had a nice long shower to rinse the chlorine out of our clothes. Then we realised that we didn't bring a change of clothes, only our hoodies were still dry. James had the saving idea: "Why don't we put our hoodies on, jump into the pool one more time and then go for run in the rain?" Brilliant!

We jumped back into the pool and swam a few lengths which was a good bit harder because of the extra clothes. Next we ran out of the pool building into the pouring rain, down the field track, through a few puddles and into the lake. That run was quite a challenge, with all those heavy wet clothes slopping around. When we got back to our room, we stayed in the shower for about half a hour rinsing our kit and relaxing together. Hoodies make a nice sound under the showers when you put the hood up.