Day 2 - Tuesday 10 September

Today I woke up to my best friend at my cabin all hyped up and this was the first time I actually got up excited because it was my first time being away from my parents for five days at camp, we got ready to go and eat our breakfast in the common room, for breakfast we had weetbix, oatmeal, fruit salad and muesli after we finished eating went in our groups, my group was doing bush craft we were
learning about how to tie ropes and making shelter.

Firstly we learned about tying the ropes and making it secure, then we had to go and find a partner and tie a rope on the other side from your partner, then we were talking about making shelter and tying ropes, then we went on another topic about making a fire safely so we went in the woods to find some dead branches and put them in the fire, when we got back we put some of our wood in this tin and some people had a go with the match because most of the wood did not light on fire, so while we were waiting Chris picked some people who should stay here and make a fire while the other people can go and pitch a tent.

Secondly we had to find two trees that we can tie the ropes to each sides and once we were done with that we had to put up the tent so each of us had to be on different sides if we want to pitch up the tent also we had three bamboo sticks with us so we put two on the sides and one in the middle and then we put some sticks in the ground so the tent will be out a bit and I also learn that if you put a tent a bit low then the rain will most likely wont go in the side of the tents and it doesn't matter if the
tent is the right size for you to stand up the rain would still come in your tent.

Thirdly once were done we put our tent inside the bag and untied the ropes and took the bamboo sticks and while I was going back I could see that the people who stayed behind actually made a fire so now our new challenge was to boil water and make hot chocolate so we got a something kind of like a metal milk jug and put some water in it and put it on the fire and wait for it to boil when the
water was finally done we put in some cocoa and my friend Dwayne mixed it up and one person had to get a cup so she could try it and then we all tried it and there was not enough chocolate in it so she put in some more and mixed one more time then we took it into the common room and drank some hot chocolate

After that it was time for us to go kayaking so my group got changed and got our towels and went into the bus and our bus driver Maiki drove us to the beach were we will be kayaking but sadly we didn't go do to the weather but the other group got to go kayaking so since we didn't go we had to head back but on the bright side when we got back we get to go swimming and we had an extra five
minutes when we got to the swimming pool it was very cold but I stayed in there because once you stay there for long you'll get a little bit warmer, in the pool we had swimming races and some of us were just swimming around and having fun but today was a fun day even thought we didn't get to go kayaking i still had fun being around my friends and class mates.