Camp Recount

Teapot Valley Camp

At two o’clock in the Afternoon on monday the sixth we arrived at the most exciting camp that I was ever going to experintes. Spooky and misteris was the way I summed up the middle day at this camp. Pranks and total chaos was the the last day and night on the wild rollercoaster ride of a camp. Top team, zip lining are two of the many enjoyable activities at the jam packed Teapot Valley camp.

Day one, Traveling

I got to school on one of the windiest mornings ever, I grabbed my bag and strolled to class to drop my bag and go to play before school started. After half an hour the vans rolled up to be loaded with children and bags and began our journey to Reefton for morning tea and a streak we also go numbers so they could know if we were all there. Then we jumped back in our vans and went off to murchison here we had lunch and played on the skatepark with the tiers that where there. Starting again on our long journey we had taken a short detour down a road that Ms Bellis thought was the right way but we end up at a river bank so we turned around to get back on the main road to get to the proper destination.

Day Two, Activatie one and breakfast.

I woke up to the sound of playful joy outside my cabin door, as I got out of bed and slowly staggered down the concrete path that led me to the most enjoyable place in the entire camp, the dining room. Breakfast was made up of toast, porridge, cornflakes, ricebubbes, fruit and yogurt as for my breakfast I had toast and porridge. We packed up breakfast and started our groups first activite, this was go karting down the hill at the back of the propatie. The aim of this activate was to get pushed from the top of the hill and get around a corner and see how far up the hill you can get, the skills we needed for this was teamwork, confidence and determination.

Day two, Activate two and lunch.

After go karts we went back to the dining area for morning tea this constituted of fruit and baking from home then wondered to the abseiling we lined up from the most confident to lest and started and the front. I was the first to go down the wall and I found it enjoyable but I didn’t like it when I slipped and fell on my face at the top, some people went very swiftly down the wooden wall but others had take their time to get down as it was their first time abseiling. After that we went back to the dining room for lunch we had Macaroni and cheese we then cleaned up and went to play for an hour on the field or just outside the dining area for six squire or checkers, I chose to kick a ball around on the field with some other kids.

Day two, Activate three

Confidence course the hardest activatie ever, for this we need to balance on a angled strips of wood then we climbed over a wooden fence after that we bowled over a seesaw like object and jump of and placed on another strip of wood before climbing up a angled ladder and swinging on so rops with tires at the bottom of each rope that hang from the trunk of a cut down tree storage after that we went along some monkey bars then jumping onto a rope swing to end the course you won if you hadn't touched the ground over the hole course.

Day two, Activate four and dinner/supper

This was our last activity rotation for the day and it was rock climbing in the gym there was a competition for this and nathan was on top with a time of 16.63 with his dad right behind him at 16.87, my time was 23.19 and I left feeling proud even thought I wasn’t on top. We had Burgers and chips for dinner that night, the burger consisted of a beef patty, lettes, tomato and pineapple,  it tasted delicious. Straight after we finished our burgers we had ice cream sandwiches for podding and they where go in a flash they were that good. Then in about an hours time we had cake and milo as supper.

Day two Activatie one, two

This was my favorite activatie on the second day and it was the Zip line. This was so much fun because there wasn’t many people in our group so we got 3 or 4 turns. The zip line was dangerous so we had to wear harnesses and had multiple ropes attached to us to ensure that we stayed safe when riding the line. I just about got told off for laying flat so it looked like I was superman. Then we went to the low ropes course which was a confidence builder for most people. The course contained lots of moving poles and wires that you had to belits on. There was also a wheel that we had to get over using teamwork.

My favorite activity would have been the Zip line or go karts it was a great experience that I would never turn down. This was the best camp that I had ever been on and will definitely be going throughout the holidays and bring my family and friends along with me. I loved the food that was provided by the camp and the staff were really nice.