Day one

Between 8:00 and 9:00 everybody arrived at school and once we had all of it in the big trailer that was on the back of Mr Thompson’s car which I was in and then we left for lake Okataina and had lunch there.  Once we had had lunch and finished a bush walk we did there we left for Ohope and unpacked our luggage into our cabins and just played games around the campsite for a while.  

Later on that day we walked across the road to the beach and write our names with sticks into the wet sand and played some games there, then we headed for our cabins again and had a snack.

By about 5:30 we left for the Aquatic centre and we went on the hydro-slide and we had a lot of fun there for a hour or two.  Once we finished there we just played some games before dinner, then we went to bed.  But our cabin surely stayed awake which didn’t impress the teachers.

Day two

The morning was really bad because breakfast was at 7:30 and every-night we go to bed at 10:00 but no-one really go to bed till way later! and some people were almost asleep face first in our breakfast.

After breakfast  room3 and room7 split, room 7 went kayaking, fishing and for a walk to Shelly bay.  We went to the high-ropes first and we had to put harnesses and helmets on and my first activity was really scary, my favourite activity was the trapeze, I had to climb up a big pole and stand on it, then there was a trapeze a couple of feet away and I jumped for it and grabbed on to it but then I let go of it and went flying, it was pretty fun because I am scared of heights .  Once we had done some activities and had lunch we left to the Amazing Maze n Maize.  We split up in our car groups and set off into the maize and trying to find pictures and laminated pieces of information.  We found a haunted house and It had dead legs and heads with blood everywhere, it was cool.

Then we went back to our cabins and later on that night we went to the Aquatic centre and went on the hydro-slide again and went for a swim.  Once we had finished we went back to our cabins and had dinner.

Day three

At 9:00 sharp we started off for our kayaking session, that was Kaitlyn’s dad and Joshes mums group.  When we got there we went through some skills of how to kayak and then we put our life jackets on from shortest to tallest, and I was the tallest.  When we hopped in the kayaks we went for a long kayak out to around the middle of the lake and it was quite shallow, we did some activities out there then we came back and played a tiggy in our kayaks.  Once we had finished we headed back for camp.  We all had showers and dried ourselves from the kayaks then walked across the road to Shelly Bay, it was a long walk down the beach and some of us were collecting pippies and putting them in Patrick’s lunchbox to save them for fishing later on.  Once we got towards the end of the beach we started to climb up this hill.  When we had got to the other side we stopped there for lunch, then we climbed back over and started on our way back to the cabins.  We quickly got ourselves sorted for fishing and started on our way to the fishing place, when we got there we stayed there fishing, I actually didn’t catch any fish but Sarah almost caught a Snapper.  When we had finished we headed back to our cabins.

Once we had been back for a while then we started on our way to Awakeri Hot-springs.  I was freezing cold when we got there because I was just in my togs.  I jumped in and the pool was so warm.  After a while we had a BBQ and cake, then we got to buy lots of lollies.  We basically ended the night when we got back to the cabins.

Day four-Last day

It was the last day and everybody was packing all their stuff up and cleaning their cabins.  Once everybody had all their luggage in the big school trailer we headed to Te Puke and had bought lunch there.  Most of us bought Subway but Nicky and I didn’t have any money so we couldn’t buy any, everyone went to the park and ate their lunch there.

Then we left from there and headed back to school, we arrived at school around 2pm.