On Sunday, we started to pack our clothes for camp. It took us a long time because we had lots of things to pack. The night before camp, we were excited because we were going to have lots of fun. I couldn’t sleep because it was so hot inside. In the morning we put our bags in the car, and we went to school. It took 20 minutes from my house to school. At school we put our bags in the trailer and we had two vans called Tracey and Troy. We drove to Taumarunui and we stopped for lunch in a park. In the park there was a playground, it was for little kids. Some people in my van felt sick so we had to make lots of stops. We kept driving to another small town and I saw a big dam. The dam was cool. We got to camp at about 3:30 and settled in, made our beds, unpacked our stuff and got ready for tea. Before tea we played some gridiron. My cabin was meant for one adult and three children. Pat was our adult. For tea we had spaghetti bolognaise. It had onion, spaghetti, sauce and mince. I didn’t like it much. At bed time we got into bed and had a talk for about half an hour and then went to sleep.
Tuesday
So this is Tuesday. We went to the buried village. We saw houses buried in lava and ash. The water fall was cool and high. The stairs was so steep by the waterfall. It was raining outside and we went to the café and I bought a rugby ball. I bought a soft rugby ball and Justin got a hard ball. We had morning tea in the cafe. We didn’t buy anything; we got food from our lunchbox. Next thing we started to go to camp so we could go to the leisure world Hydroslides. The leisure world Hydroslides are really fun and we went to the fastest slide. It was black and you couldn’t see where you were going. There were steep bits and sharp corners and on one I flipped over and hit my head. We stayed there for a couple of hours and when we were all tired from swimming we went to pizza hut for tea. We had to choose between so many pizzas. After the pizza, we had ice-cream and it was really cold and it was yummy ice-cream. I got a sore head when I ate ice-cream at pizza hut. After the pizza hut we went back on the van and we went back to camp. At camp we went to the dairy to buy chocolate and lollypops. After that we went outside to play. After that we went to bed about eight o’clock and we talked and then we went to sleep.
Wednesday
On Wednesday we woke up about half past six and all ate chocolate. After the chocolate we went down the hill and we had breakfast. After the breakfast we went to Rotorua Museum and it was really cool. We watched the T.V. and it was a really scary movie about the Mt Tarawera eruption and the seat was moving. We looked at the baths and the water was not heated by people. It was boiling water coming from the ground and there was a spa pool and a swimming pool too. After that we went down to the museum and we looked at an underground passage way. There were lots of TVs that you could see and other cool things but you had to wear a helmet in case the roof fell in on you. I saw shorts of a movie and it had an old boiler in it. After that we went up to the top stairs where there was a lovely view and we saw the bowlers playing bowls and people playing croquet. After the museum we had an early lunch at the park and then went to Te Puia. At Te Puia we went to the whare nui and a man who came from Scotland was named Jimmy and he was the chief of the manuhiri. We saw a man do a challenge. We went inside the Marae and we sat down on the floor and watched the dancing and haka. It was very cool and very well done. After that our guide took us to the geysers and the hot pools and then we walked to see the geysers up close. All the pools were so hot that the water had steam coming out everywhere. All the water ran into the river below and under the bridge. We sat on some hot rocks which burnt our bum after ten second. After Te Puia we went to camp to put our togs on quickly and then we went to the hot pools in Waikite and it was boring. After the hot pools we went back to camp to have tea. We had fish and chips, it was nice. I ate some chocolate and went to bed.
Thursday
We woke at six o’clock and we went outside to play gridiron with Justin’s ball against an invisible side. After that we went down the hill to have breakfast. After breakfast, we went to the van and I went on Tracy. We went to the gondolas and 5 minutes later, we up the hill and we saw Mt Tarawa up the high hill. We went outside and we went on the luge ride down the hill. We went on a chair lift to get back up the hill and we went to the luge again and it was really fun. It was boring when we went back up the hill. It took 5 minutes to get back. After the gondola we went back to camp to have lunch.
We had the lunch from our lunchbox and I ate some chocolate cake. It was yummy chocolate cake. After that we put our togs on in our room and walked down to the Blue Lake and went for a swim. There was a boat with a biscuit which two people could fit on. We all had a turn on the biscuit which was fun and some people had a go at skiing. I stood up holding the pole. Some people didn’t have a turn because it was too cold. They went back to camp with Miss Lewis.
That night of camp we went outside to play gridiron with the girls. My team just had three boys. The girl’s team had Kelly, Connie, Roma, Nina, Miss Lewis and Claire. We always got tries every time and some of the girls got tries too. Then we went back to our hut and played twister and after that we went down to have tea. Then we went to bed.
Friday
Today we went home by van and at last we were packing our bags again. After the packing we put our bags on the trailer and then we went straight home. Later on we stopped at Whakamaru to have our lunch. We had some yummy chocolate cake. We played tag with my softball. After playing tag we went back inside the van and we went straight on going back home. It was so very boring. After we had unpacked out of the two trailers we said thank you and went home. But on the way home we played card cricket. We played New Zealand verses West Indies. New Zealand WON! With the leading batsman Brendan Mc Callum.
That was the end of the camp.
