Camp for 2017 has been and gone and we've spent this week- celebrating the highlights of camp and reflecting on the experience and growth we gained from it. The students have enjoyed writing their camp recount, recording their camp song and music video and constructing a camp diorama. Yes, it has been a busy week!
I'm am excited to share with you our first guest blog post from LA8 student Eloise:
There’s no going back now, I thought to myself
as we left school on the monstrous bus full of 44 noisy year 6’s (there were
two buses, each with 44 kids). I sat next to S, Z and H sat behind
us. We all talked together for the whole ride there. Once we arrived at
Mornington we all gathered in the hall and ate lunch, I wasn’t that hungry so I
didn’t eat much, after that we settled into our dorms, I was with K and
S.
Our first
activity was crate stacking, we met our instructor, Victoria, and she demonstrated
how to put on the equipment, the harness was very uncomfortable. We started the
activity, I enjoyed it a lot, as I was climbing I kept forgetting I had a
harness on so I felt very unstable. Not too long after we all went on a
bushwalk, there were so many march flies!
Anyway, once we got back we all
headed to the food hall (by the way the food was amazing!), we had the most
delicious spaghetti Bolognese.
That night we got no sleep because of the dorm
with 24 girls (whose idea was that?). That day we had baked beans on toast,
which was also amazing!
After that our group had rock climbing (which I didn’t enjoy at all), flying fox and canoeing, can I just say that canoeing was the
most enjoyable activity by far! We got to paddle out into the middle of the
dam, join up our canoes and switch seats with other people, we also were told
to go out into the water and flip over our canoes (while we were in them),
bring them to the shore and tip all the water out of them (it’s a lot harder
than it sounds).
Later that day we had indoor games in the main
hall, trust me having 88 children in one room is not a great idea when it comes
to noise control, anyway we played a series of entertaining games including
Wattie, which consists of Mr Boylan calling people to the centre of the hall
and those people whacking a ball of newspaper with a stick made of even more
newspaper and attempting to score a goal. There were many more exciting games
but to name them all would take up the rest of this page (that might have been
a bit of an exaggeration)!
That night we got a lot more sleep that the
night before, I guess the girls in the big dorm got tired of talking! We woke
up to the sound of Mr Boylan’s voice and the girls gossiping at 6:00 in the
morning (I’m guessing, I had no concept of time)! I didn’t really enjoy
breakfast, it was tinned spaghetti on toast. I had some fruit and some toast
with melted cheese on it.
Our final activity on camp was mid-ropes course,
I only did low-ropes because I fell off the 3 metre-high climbing wall straight
on to my lower back, anyway I didn’t find that activity very enjoyable, it
doesn’t help that there were hundreds of March flies hovering around, can I
just say for such a small creature they pack a powerful bite!
Soon we headed down to the food hall to eat our
last meal, hotdogs and icy poles, chips and juice, YUM! The 20 minutes before
the buses departed were the most hectic time on camp by far, everybody rushing
to get their bags and to make sure they get on the right bus, it was crazy! On
the way back I sat next to S again, like the way there- we talked the whole
time. That was my camp experience!
