During our practice expedition for bronze DofE, we found ourselves in a very odd situation with a group of hooded animals. We had been walking all day and were going to settle down for lunch on a nice field next to a lake. It was seemingly a very picturesque view until in the distance, we could see a cow start walking towards where we were sitting. We thought it would be okay seeing as it was ages away and there was only one, however, the next time we looked up, more cows had joined the first one. They made a triangle, the first cow being the ring-leader at the front and every other one walking behind. Naturally, we were terrified as the group of cows started not walking, but running down the hill to where we were sat. As quickly as possible, we picked up our half eaten food, threw it in our bags and started walking up the hill towards the gate at the top. The cows had started to slow down at this point, but they were all still intently watching waiting to see what we were going to do. We were still very scared of the cows and so started walking in the opposite direction when we came face to face with our teacher. The teacher then made his own way up the hill, not giving a care in the world about the cows and we all followed him until there was a small road. On either side of the road were cows. After being taught to never stand between the cows, we were lost as to what we should do. Should we walk between the cows or try and squeeze past on the other side? Eventually we decided on going to the side of the cows and trying to fit through the small gap and we successfully got to the other side without agitating them. Our teacher then showed up again and just calmly walked through the middle of the cows, again not giving a care in the world as we were stood sweating from the whole incident.