YEAR 7 CAMP: CAMP ADAIR

Yes, that's right... it's finally come... THE ONE... THE ONLY... YEAR 7 CAMP BLOG!!!! The brilliant new stuffz that U R about 2 see has came straight from my camp journal (plus more!!!) Soo..... sit back, relax, and let me drone on about a mud slide for 3 hours!!!

DAY 1 ~~~

28th April 2010

Dear Journal, (omg! so authentic!) Today was sooooooo busy!* The bus trip took AGES to get here! (camp adair)When we first got here we all got assembled in the meeting hall and got talked to about all the activities and rules of camp adair.

THE NEVER ENDING SET

OF RULES!!!!!!

Report any damage immediately (accidentally drops pencil on bunk leaving tiny mark, rushes out at 5:00am HELLP!!!! EMERGENCY!!! DAMAGE TO BUNK BED!!!!!!)

Only use equipment and activities with an adult supervising (I'm an adult right??? You supervise me I supervise you!!!)

Respect the privacy and belongings of others (SMASH!!! oops?)

Report to the meeting area as fast as possible when the whistle blows (toy whistle, toot! tricked u!!!)

Listen carefully to instructions and obey them immediately (pick your nose and eat it!!! EWW!!! NOO!!! you must obey me!!! do it!!!)

Always stay with your group when doing activities (losers

... huh? did I say that aloud???)

Do not bring chewing gum (but i like chewing gum???), cell phones (how on earth can i text without a cell phone, omg totally stupid!), ipods (nevermind... I'll just use my mp3 player!) MP3s (WHAT?! No MP3????!!!!) and other electronics. (how will i live???)

Keep cabins tidy, they will be

inspected for points and prizes. (this doesn't apply to me... I'm in a dormitory!!!)

Do not run on the verandas, walk calmly and quietly. (tag you're it!!!)

Do not enter other cabins without adult permission. (shhh!! I put my toe in your cabin, teeheee!!!!)

No talking after lights out. (OMG I TOTALLY KNOW WHO HER BOYFRIEND IS!!! IT'S KEVIN!!!!)

Stay in your cabins when you wake up: No noise or movement before 7:00 am. (3:00a.m.HEY GUYS!!!!! IT'S MORNING!!!! RISE AND SHINE!!!!)

end of rules!!!

After that we had a tour of the camp...

And now... especially for you... an..

. E-TOUR!!!

As you can see here is an over view of the whole of camp adair!!!

The big green roundish building thing that my friends all thou

ght was a farm is the meeting hall, to the south of that there is a car park and to the north-west there is the ropes course the flying squirrel (don't ask) the super fox and the mud confidence course.

THAT WAS THE WORLDS FASTEST E-TOUR

MISSING OUT HEAPS OF STUFFZ... MOVING ON...

,most of the activities were either high up or muddy... or both. A combination of my least favourite things!I am definitely NOT doing the super fox!!! (luckily my group didn't do that activity)Also when we were touring we saw lots of orienteering signs which were probably for the visual orienteering activity (my group is doing that on Thursday) after that it was lunchtime and me and my friend got lost, somehow we ende

d up at the dining hall and all the kids who went on Monday had sausages, Mr. Anderson saw us, embarrassing!!! Luckily we found our way back to the meeting hall for lunch. Then it was the first activity... The Mudslide. I was soooo scared to go on it and I had been dreading doing it for the past three days! When we were crossing the swing bridge we were only allowed ten people to go on it at a time, like... rope = snap, freaky! Everyone was jumping on it despite all the signs! When we were across we saw a HUGE slide...

TO BE CONTINUED!!!! (NO SERIOUSLY!!! I WON'T FORGET!!!!!) I'LL DO IT TOMORROW... I THINK... SEEYA!

* U have nooo idea...

Camp Kokako Lodge!

On the 9th of March the year 6's went on camp to Kokako Lodge. Here is my umm.... diary? Of things that happened this week. I woke up at 6:00 in the morning on Monday and started getting ready for camp it was really exciting, I wondered what it would be like and what my cabin group would be like. Then after getting ready my dad dropped me off at school then I got my stuff packed into Rebecca's car to leave after that all the year 6's were asked to gather in the school hall to mark of the roll call. My group was second to be called out so my group left second (of course)

In my transport group I was with Rebecca and Clinton. We were in the lead because we had a short cut but then Rebecca's dad realized he forgot his phone which meant we had to go back. After we had gone back to get the phone me and Rebecca drew pictures of Clinton with a moustache. I wonder how he felt being the only boy? Well I guess Clinton had Rebecca's dad to talk to. He pretty much just sat and read the map the whole time other than threatening to draw pictures of us with moustaches!

When we got there we put our suitcases in our cabins. I was in the cabin group called Rimu with Georgia, Kimberley, Izzy (Haines), Ilma, Sarah and Sandra, Harry Coopers mum. After we quickly threw our suitcases in the room we were called to the hall. (the hall at Kokako Lodge, not at school!) When everybody got there the teachers and instructors talked a little bit about the camp and who they were. The owner of Kokako Lodge is called Brenton, he works alongside his dad. Another instructor is called by his nickname 'Sea Jay'. He was the one who worked with the kayaks.

After the orientation we had morning tea. For morning tea we had something from our snack box. In my snack box I had some rice wheelies, packeted prunes, milkies and splitemz. I had some splitemz, they are roll ups. When we were eating morning tea we had to sit in our activity groups. My activity group is called Echo. The people with me in Echo are Jasmine, Me, Raynah, Harry, Thomas S., Thomas E., Marcella, Riki and Sandra the parent who is also in my cabin group.

After morning tea we did ABL activities (Activity Based Learning) Echo's first activity was a magic helmet race where we pretended there was a big hole and only the person who was wearing the magic helmet could get across and the magic helmet couldn't be worn back by the same person or thrown. we did piggy backs and it didn't work that well because my group had and uneven number (9). So some people had to piggy back 3 people! I had to be piggy backed first by Riki and Riki had to hold Marcella! It was really funny! We had to try 3 times before we made it across! but only 6 people got to the other side before the time limit ran out!

The next activity was hut building. The aim was trying to make the tallest free standing tower. My group won the record for the tallest tower.

After that activity we went to the rope challenge where you had to get the rope to your side and get all the people in your group to the other plank of wood on the other side. Usually in this game it's really easy but the instructor just to be tricky told us to take off our jackets so as soon as we put them down he said that we can't pick them up again to use to get to the other side because he said the 'sharks' ate them so we some how got it by flapping our hats at it creating wind! But as soon as we had 2 people across to the other side it was time for the next activity so we didn't get to finish!

The next activity was to get all the people in your group to the other side using stepping stones and every stone had to be stepped on at all times otherwise it would get taken away. Thomas E. was the person who went first and he kept losing all the stepping stones so at the end one person had to do a really long jump to the end and as soon as we started when had to have 3 to a stepping stone! At the end he got really mad and said it was our fault! (I have no idea why, some sort of sore loser thing)

The last (but not least) activity was the plank race where there was 4 planks of wood with straps on them where you put your feet in and walked like 3 legged race. Once again Thomas E. went in the front and lead and he was such an idiot! He kept saying left and right but not moving his own feet! Then he was yell "Why aren't you moving your feet you idiots!" But he was in front and HE wasn't moving so everyone else would try to move but we couldn't! At the end we didn't win the race because no one made it to the end in time!

Then it was lunch time. For lunch we had food from our packed lunch that we had for the first day. After lunch we had our first activity sessions my group, Echo had abseiling as their first activity. I was glad about that because I didn't want to do something as wet as kayaking or as high as the high ropes on the first day of camp.

We headed towards the abseiling cliff. I hadn't abseiled down a cliff or anything like that before. I'd only been down an abseiling wall at a past school camp, year 5 camp at camp M.E.R.C. it was only 2 days long. When we got to the abseiling area the cliff didn't look so high and it looked pretty easy. Every body had a practice run with a rope attached to a tree on a little hill, that was mega easy to. After every body had a practice we started to do the real thing one by one we got our harnesses on then we got in a line I was in front of Jasmine next to Sonia. When we watched other people they went so slow but it didn't take very long to get down. When it came to my turn I was after Jasmine because she decided to push in front! When I had climbed all the stairs to the top of the cliff Jasmine was already up there. When you are at the bottom it doesn't look very far down but at the top it looks majorly far down! Jasmine was scared so she didn't want to do it, she even didn't go down with the instructor when he offered! My friend Georgia went down with the instructor because she didn't want to do it by herself, I wonder why Jasmine didn't want to go with the instructor?

Morning tea time! Everybody grabbed a quick snack then continued with their group to the next activity

Let's Sum It Up...

I've been sooo busy lately and you nor I am keeping track of anything I'm doing and well... let's sum it up. (very shortly)

1. In the camp concert I am doing a dance with kimberley and georgia to vanessa hudgens identified.

2. I AM IN ROOM 3.

3. why on earth did I ever think that Mr. Hogg was spelt with a d??? (Hogd?)

4. I want nachos.

5. Mimzy the kitten is now the size of both of my hands.

6. I am going to camp NEXT TERM.

7. Help me I'm dying of boredom!

Gotta Go!

......... urrrmm..... Elmo says hi and bye!!