7. Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions.

6. Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance.

and swimming. We spent our morning and evening biking through the fields and admiring the stunning natural scenery, occasionally stopping to refresh ourselves or eat and cool down from the biking. At the end of the day we organized a race among the students to see who could come back to the place we were staying at. At the start we were asked to choose what pace we would bike at, with people choosing the same pace biking togheter. Based on my gut feelings I would have decided to go for the medium pace but after my classmates encouraged me to bike fast with them I ended up joining their group. Although I had expected not to be able to keep up with them, sprinting through the many dirt roads along with my classmates I barely noticed the tiredness that was building up in my muscles pushing down on the pedals. Whenever we came across a slope the whole group would speed up to facilitate the rising, we would then begin shouting and encouraging each other to keep pedaling, if one person slowed down the whole group would have to wait for them, it was therefore fundamental moving in unison. This bonding between each of us not only brought us closer but acted as the main source of strength and motivation that led us to completing our route. I learned that

one's own effort and resilience can only take him so far, it is with the support of others that we are really able to

achieve our full potential.