❣ The Fantastic Long Bay Trip ❣

 

Yah! Now it’s the time to learn about Survival In The Wild! On Monday 7th of, April, 2014, the year 7 / 8 students of Glenbrae School, were very exhilarated to go on a trip to Long Bay.  When we got there we met 5 instructors. I felt animated. Sarah, one of our instructors walked us to a huge fale called the main rangers. Sarah said we will be having morning tea for 10 or 15 minutes. Morning tea was over. We were in groups amongst 9-10 people. Sarah told us that we are divided to each instructor at the programme.

Next it was time to head off to our activity with one of the instructor. Morag was our instructor. First she gave us a list of things you're supposed to take with you when you're on a bushwalk and things your not ment to take with you. It was time to have a competition.  We were split into teams. In my team was Te Puawai and Alex. The aim was to get the right things you should be taking with. It was hard to know which one to take because we didn't run with the list we had. It was the end. My team lost but we still had fun. The last activity we did was stretches. Morag said to us we will be using a wood bamboo stick and 3 chumpas. It was very tricky. We had to lift people up. Mrs Raj our teacher, were one of the people that were lifted. Mrs Raj didn't want to get off because she liked it and it was comfortable. That was so amazing.

Let’s go for a bush walk! We were with James. James took us to a tree where it had a plenty of shade. He gave out maps. James said to us we have to decide what place we will be visiting. My group choose Grannies Bay. We had a leader and a tail charlie. The leader had to follow the map to Grannies Bay and the tail charlie had to help the leader with the map if the leader didn't where he or she were going. If we stopped around a spot through the bush, the leader will another leader and a tail charlie will choose another tail charlie. I was a tail charlie. When reached Grannies Bay, it was so beautiful because it was huge and it had big area. While we were standing and looking around Grannies Bay, I could hear the waves from the beach splashing and making fabulous noise. James shouted out loud to us and said that it’s time to go back for lunch. We all walked back in a group.

Time to do the last activity. Our last activity was building tent and cooking. Sarah and Maureen was the instructor. Maureen explaining to us about building a tent. Time to start building the tent. We started of with building the tent. It was not hard to build the tent because it was kinda a medium size. This was my favourite part, cooking. Mauren told us that we will be in pairs. My pair was Te Puawai. We cooked the sausages in a frying pan and a little stove. That was Te Puawai and I first time cooking on a little stove. Finally the sausages was cooked. We all ate them. Delicious!!!

Finally it was all over. Time to go back. I didn't want to go because I wanted to stay and

do some more cooking. That was the most FANTASTIC day I ever had!!!!!