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“Your first task is to create a christmas tree out of the things provided on the on the task paper” said Mrs Nua. The supplies we had were 9 A4 coloured paper 1 meter of tin foil, 20 sheets of newspaper and 2 fruit bursts. Also the tree had to have at least 4 branches, and was able to stand up by itself and you had to be able to move it around without things falling of. We were split up into 7 group. The key for success was team work.
The christmas tree sounded like a easy idea but really it was quite hard especially when you had about half an hour to make it. We decided to make a tree that has newspaper for the main part and coloured paper for decorations and the branches. Also we took out the fruit bursts out of its wrapper and use the wrapper to make a snake as one of the decorations.
Luckily we were able to finish in time.The song we sang was silent night. After morning tea we had 1 more activity. It was a mixture of running, catching, making and also using a big slingshot. It was my favourite activity.
It was a lot of fun and I hope we do it again.
Where I am from I see coconut trees
Where I am from I smell the saltiness of the sea
Where I am from I hear Joy and laughter
Where I am from I can taste taro
Where I am form I can feel the waves of the sea
Where I am from I can feel the hot sun burning down on me
“How much longer do we have to walk for, this bag is so heavy, why can we just camp here “I puffed. “We'll find somewhere soon”said Mum. “Ok then”replied Ashleigh. It felt like we were in the middle of nowhere. The blazing sun didn’t help either it just made me even more tired.
Finally after a two hours walk, not really two hours but it felt like it. We stopped to eat some lunch. “Hmm this is really nice but I think we should carry on “ said Mum.”Ohh do we have to move on now”I said feeling a little bit annoyed. “Yes Come on” replied Mum
While walking almost everywhere mum finally said ”This looks like a good place to camp lets camp over here”. I was relieved when I heard that. While unpacking our stuff we both looked at each other thinking the same thing.
We forgot to pack one of the most important things. The Tent! I mean how could we forget. Quickly we had to come up with a plan, because night was falling and we didn’t want to sleep on the ground We decided to to collect some sticks, leaves and some moss for the bedding. We were making a hut for us to sleep in. It sounded easy but it was quite hard, especially trying to get things when you have to hold a torch in one hand.
The coldness shock my body giving me goose bumps. I wish I was at home in my nice warm snuggly bed I thought to myself. But there was no time to think. We had to get stuff for our hut and fast.
Luckily we made our hut and used our matches to make a fire with some wood. My mum and I got into our sleeping bags and snuggled up next to each other. The fire helped a lot too.
“Come here Vivienne and Osana quickly,” called out Tom to his small chubby dogs. Turning the corner he noticed something but couldn’t see because of the dark. “Come on girls lets go check that out,” “Wow an abandoned barn,” Tom sprinted to the door. “Errr,” went the door as he entered with the two dogs. All he could hear was footsteps but they had stopped.
”Ohhh freaky house” whispered Tom. Getting closer and closer to the end of the hallway the debris got worse “Slam!!” “Woof Woof “screeched Vivienne as she was getting dragged into a room. “Vivienne NO!!!” Tom shouted with anger, “Osana come here, Osana, OSANA!,”
Tom searched everywhere but had no luck, ”I wish I never came here” he sobbed, “Oww,” one of the dogs winned. Suddenly another thud, “Viv, Osana are you there,” silence filled the room as he headed towards a small door for him just to fit in. “Err, bang,” the door slammed behind him. He started to freak out as a weird sound was approaching him, “Arghh.”
To be continued...
Thanks to Jarna for helping me write this story.
The sun was blazing down on mum and the kids as they lazed outside on the deck. It felt like we were in a oven get cooked. “Why don’t we pack our bags and spend some time at the beach” thought mum. Everyone agreed with that idea. So they quickly got their stuff ready and left. They also called some of their family members to join them.
On our way to the beach mum’s phone started to vibrate. It was her sister saying that she can’t make it because her car had broken down. Sadly they would have to go to the beach without them. Luckily they had other people that could come.
When they arrived they saw that they weren't the only ones that wanted to go to the beach. There were people everywhere. People swimming, making sand castles relaxing on the sand and a new thing they recently put in jumping of the rock.”Cool the rocks”said everyone in excitement. But then Vivienne suggested, "Let's go play water volleyball down the other end of the beach."
"Cool idea!"
Splashing and jumping to hit the ball everyone soon forgot about their little cousins Tom and Jerry. "Hey has anybody seen Tom and Jerry?" Vivienne yelled. So they got out of the water and split up looking for them. “Where are they, I thought they were with you” I said angrily but worried. We had checked every where except for one place, The Rocks. In a flash they all ran to the rocks. To their surprise they found both Tom and Jerry just lying on the rocks judging who did the best tricks when they jumped off.”Pheww” they said wiping the sweat of their foreheads.
From then on they always kept sight of them.Making sure that they were always in the right place. The final thing they did was get an ice cream then it was back home for them. The twins ended up sleeping in the car, properly tired from watching people jump.
“Wheels on the bus go round and round” was what the little kids on the bus were saying, as we were on our way to Willow Park. It was a camp for riversiders and a couple of other people that wanted to come. We stayed there for a 5 days Monday-Friday.
My favourite game that we played were GYOB. GYOB stands for Get your own back it is just like a massive food fight with everyone. But not only with food but thing like mud, sponges with water. The leaders also sprayed water at us with the hose. Fun is the word to explain how I felt, mostly because you could hit people and, see there reaction on there face.
On the last night we had a special dinner and a concert. The theme was superheroes. But i didn’t dress up in anything.For dinner we had Pork with peas, potatoes and pumpkin. It was delicious. Our concert was good too. Everyone did a good job of performing.
Camp was a lot of fun. I hope I can go again next year. Also thanks to all of the leaders, Mr Burt and Georgie for making it possible.
Joshua Iosefo wrote a speech was called Brown Brother. Room 20 saw this on youtube, before writing about him and his speech. Joshua Iosefo’s poem got over 63,000 views, but he got more publicity for this when he went on Campbell Live.
Our Teacher emailed Ms Iosefo and asked her if Joshua could perform his speech. She said yes. So first thing in the morning Joshua came into our team assembly said he speech and answered some of our questions.
Thank you Joshua. You inspired a lot of us.
