Camp

A few days ago I went on a school camp, to YMCA Shakespeare lodge for 2 ½ days. It was very fun. When we first arrived we unloaded our heavy luggage off the bus and took them all the way up a very steep gravel road. When we got up to the actual camp we realised that the buses actually could of come up to the top! We found out our cabin groups and I liked who I was with. We set up our beds and I was on the top bunk, YAY! We then sat in the courtyard and ate our morning tea.

We had a variety of different activities including Rock climbing, orienteering, archery, mountain boarding, Kayaking, beach sculpting and ultra high frequency radios. Rock climbing was very fun because we were aloud to belay our friends without any help and I made it up to the top every time! I enjoyed orienteering because you got to run all around the camp site trying to find the clues. Each clue gave you in between 10 and 40 points, and we got all 500! Archery was really cool because I hit the bull’s eye 4 times and got to get into the gold club! Mountain boarding was quite challenging because nobody had ever tried it before, we had to learn how to steer by ourselves and at the end we went down this really steep hill but then we had to take it all the way back up again.

Kayaking was really fun because at the time my activity group went the waves were really strong and I had kayaked before so it gave me a bonus. we were in double kayaks and i went with a class mate. In Beach Sculpting our group got spilt in half, we had to make it 12m², it had to be related to the other half of the group and it had to have symbols and icons that represented what we liked, for example shopping or tennis. It also had to be at least 1 metre high in one point. My group made a Whale 6 by 2 metres.The water spout was where it was one metre in height and we used sticks for it. Our Sculpture was related to the other group because they did Rangitoto Island and Whales live around Rangitoto Island. Ultra High Frequency Radios (U.H.F. Radios) were cool because we played Sardines and Noughts & Crosses. We heard others speaking on them like people on boats and taxi drivers. These U.H.F. Radios communicate by sending waves and can receive other U.H.F waves from 6km away.

On the first night for dinner we had Hamburgers, they were really nice. For breakfast the next day we had cereal and toast. For lunch we had rolls with salad and for dinner we had Nachos. On the third and final day we had cereal and toast for breakfast and hot dogs for lunch. My activity group had to clean the bathroom while the other groups got to play it was so unfair! My classmate and I were the only girls cleaning the bathroom because the others were too lazy.

When the second half of the year 5/6 classes came they were complaining about taking their bags to their cabins but the buses came up to the top (we had to do so much more work than
them anyway so I don’t see why they were complaining.)