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Tui Ridge Camp 2008
I arrived at school with my dad getting ready to go to my first school camp. I was so excited because it was my first time to be with my friends away from home.
Rongopai came with me in my dad’s van to camp. Finally we were at Tui Ridge. It looked mysterious because it didn’t have any activities around and I couldn’t spot any. When we got to the meeting place, I sat down on my bag with my friends Shane, Mac and Kaleb (bunk buddies).
We were shown to our bunks and set up our beds. After that we were sent to the dining room in the front of a stage. We sat in our groups as we listened to the teachers. My first activity was archery. There were long bows with blunt arrows. We were told how to put the arrows in the bows and first up was Dominic. When it was my turn, I missed completely, it went straight over the target and almost into the bush. My second show was a little bit good because I hit the black (the black means 10 points). My fifth shot I hit the balloon. If you hit the balloon you get a lollipop – Yum!! It tasted like fanta.
We had morning tea. For morning tea we had our food brought from home. Next we went to play humpty soccer. It was hard work but lots of fun. Then we had a game of badminton, that was really fun.
After lunch we went on kiwi flyer. The kiwi flyer instructor told us how it works. How it works is a person is harnessed in and you have to run and grab a cone, you then get pulled up in the air before you try to grab the cone. The kiwi flyer was my best activity. Then we went to the BMX. We rode around the roads. It was boring!! We weren’t allowed on the track because it was too muddy. Then we went back to Archery. I hit the balloon again and I got another lollipop. Crunch..Crunch..Crunch it was gone in a millisecond!!!
After tea we went to the Burma trail. It was really scary. Dad was one of the scarers, everybody was scared of him. It was kind of dark on the Burma trail and freaky because of the moon. When we got back to camp we had some hot chocolate and 2 biscuits. Then we went to the bedrooms and went to sleep. I got to sleep at around about 11:50pm.
We were all woken up at 6:25am in the morning. We got dressed and packed our bags and then it was day 2. I had cornflakes and rice bubbles for breakfast, yum yum yum, it went down the hatch.
And the same thing happened again, we met at the dining room in our groups and our day started. The weather was cloudy and spitting. When I was abseiling the weather was pouring with rain and I started to freeze.
The flying fox was ok. You are harnessed in, you pass the men the locks and you get pulled up and you get locked in the flying fox. Finally they open the gate and whizzzz, there I go flying a hundred feet off the ground. It was a really long flying fox, longer than the one at Palmerston North. When I got to the bottom, I was hooked off and ran the harness back up to the top. It was fun. I had three turns.
It was sad to leave camp but it was nice to get home to.
Article posted November 15, 2008 at 10:31 PM •
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