Hi everyone!
In October 27th Wednesday Ruru went to Camp at Living Springs. We did lots and lots of fun stuff. But we had a walk to camp for like 2 hours! It was really tiring. We came back on Friday with our day pack and out big bag. I bought a yellow luggage. Camp was literally AMAZING! I hope we can go there next year. It was fun but tiring. We had to wake up at 6:30 in the morning! The next week when we got back to school we had to write a recount about what we did at camp.
Here is my recount about camp!
School Camp
On wednesday we went to camp, by 2 ginormous buses. I felt like it took an hour to get to living springs. But it was only like 45 minutes. Bus 1 had tribes 1 and 2 and bus 2 had tribes 3 and 4. I was in tribe 4. Later we had to get dropped off at a place where there were toilets and places to eat. Me and my friends Sofi, Hannah, Seoa, Soi and Dasha built a small hutt together made of colossal sticks. Sometime later we had to start walking to Living springs for hours! We started walking half way in our tribes. Tribes 1 and 2 were together and tribes 3 and 4 were walking together. We learned many things. Soon when all of us met together at the farm, we had lunch. There were also 2 or 3 kunekune pigs. They were big. Me Sofi and Alister started climbing a tree. Minutes later we continued walking. However we didn’t need to walk in our tribes anymore! We mostly had to walk uphill. The 1st hill we had to walk up had so much sheep poop everywhere! When we were at the camp, I felt like my legs were broken. It was the most exhausting walk I have ever had in my entire life. The weather was EXTREMELY hot as well. But the view at the top was Super beautiful. Soon we got to get our big bags and go to our bunk rooms and set up our bunks. 20 minutes later or something we literally had to do orienteering. I HATED it. We had to get in groups of 5 or 6. I was in Sofi’s group. Every single group got a map and a board thing and a whiteboard marker or something. My group got Sofi’s mom to help us find the things. Sofi held the map and Soi held the board thing with the whiteboard pen. We had 30 minutes or something to find all the letters to spell a word but I forgot what the word was. After that we got to do recreation games. There we had a monorail, trampolines, rope spring, minigolf, zipline, and also sports. The ones I did were trampolines, rope swing and also minigolf. Soon we got freetime. For freetime we got to go back to our bunk rooms and continue making our beds. Later we had dinner. Dinner was really delicious. A few minutes after dinner we got to have dessert. For dessert we got to have ice cream with fruits. After that we had to auction. There were lots of things including candy. The auction took ages to finish. It was incredibly noisy. But I didn’t buy anything there because Then we finally got to go swimming in the big indoor swimming pool. The water was freezing cold. So I got out of the pool. Same with Sofi and seoa. ON the way back to our bunk rooms, me and Seoa were shivering the entire way back! We got into the cabins, We saw Sofi Sitting in her bed doing her knitting and me and Seoa were like: WHAT! We didn’t see Sofi come out of the pool and we were a tiny bit confused. Then we got dressed. I was still a bit cold after I got dressed, then I realized that I forgot to dry my hair! So then I dried my hair with my soaking wet towel.
Soon we had the camp concert. When we got in we saw our song on the projector thing. We were so terrified. Then Sofi’s mom asked the teachers if we could not go 1st. But we were 4th, I wanted to be AT LEAST 10th. But it doesn’t matter. And all the judges gave us 10!nWe were so happy. At the end we got our duffy books. The book that I got was the ghost at dawn's house. Soon we went to bed and IT WAS THE WORST SLEEP IN MY WHOLE LIFE!!! Because 3 of my friends were talking so much and THEY were LAUGHING! It was SO frustrating to sleep. 30 minutes later or something they were still laughing and talking but luckily I fell asleep. But they kept on talking! It was really, really, really, really ANNOYING!
The next day we had to do 4 activities, and each activity was 1 hour and 30 minutes long. There was Bush Ecology, Initiatives, Low ropes, and also bouldering. My favourite ones were Low ropes and bouldering. It was very fun but very tiring. Soon we had dinner, dinner was also very good. Then we had desert but I didn’t want it. Then we had the auction again. Again I didn’t buy anything.
Then we went swimming, me and Sofi didn’t go swimming because it was cold. Later we went swimming but I stayed for around 1 minute and left with Seoa and Hannah. Then we had another auction. I got a lollipop. And we had a movie. Then we went to sleep.
The next day we had to be cleaning up our bunk rooms. I took like 8 minutes to pack everything up and get dressed. Then we did recreation games. Like Trampolines, Rope swing, mini golf, balance bikes and other stuff like that. Soon we had the animal survival game. There were wild dogs, large herbivores, small carnivores and also small herbivores. Around when half of the game was done there was flood, rabies and also a hunter. I was a large herbivore with Seoa and I think also Soi? It was very fun. Wild dogs had 2 lives, large herbivores had 4, same with small carnivores, and small herbivores had 8. I only lost 1 life that means I had 3 left. I was a deer in large herbivores. Then we had lunch. Then we left camp and went back to school.
