Day 1

Monday 28th November 2022

Today is the day I am going to leave my home for 2 nights. Today is also my Birthday! I know!!! My school camp was on my birthday! I turned 

11. I was happy and sad, I was happy because this was my wish come true ( to have a camping trip with all my friends!) I was upset because I wasn’t home to celebrate my birthday.  

I got a Xbox for my birthday and a Frank Green. We cut a cake in the morning. Then it was time to leave. My mum dropped me off so I said goodbye sadly to my dad and we drove to school. As soon as I passed the school gate everyone was singing Happy Birthday to me. It was a huge surprise! Placed my bags near the gate and I was bombarded with questions! 

AN HOUR LATER

The teacher said that we have to eat our fruit then we will hop onto the bus in a couple minutes. The teacher had a little surprise for me. Everyone would sing happy birthday to me again at dinner. After fruit we got our bags and hopped onto the bus. Our camp was held at Adare Camp and Caravan Park at Victor Harbor https://uvsa.org.au/locations/adare-campsite . I gave my mum a big hug. I was definitely going to miss her. I said goodbye to my sister too. I hopped onto the bus and waved to her and then we were off. I was not home for 2 nights. While I was on the bus. I kept thinking what If someone came broke in my cabin? And will I be with my Best friends? I was nervous wreck.  

AN HOUR AND 15 MINUTES LATER

Finally after the loud bus trip we were there, at Adare!! We hopped off the bus and we got out our luggage. We all placed our luggage under the white marquee. Then we sat in the Bethany hall for a a couple of minutes. A lady called Allie came and told us about the rules and the history about Adare. It was really fascinating. Allie introduced us to some other people. They were our teachers for our activities. After that our teacher told us our rooms. I was nervous because I wanted to be with my best friends. Finally the  teacher told us our room and I was with all my friends!! There was 5 people in my room. We were in Jayco 2, it was very different to the other cabins. It had a kitchen and everything! I had put all my luggage on the small single bed so that no one take it. There was a queen bed but I didn’t want it because it was too open to everyone.  My friend took the double bed. I made my bed then I went outside.We had a free play time until 1:30. We looked inside other peoples rooms. They didn’t have a kitchen like ours. At 1:30 we went to have lunch. YUMMY! At 2:00 we had to meet up at the Bethany hall to be put into our tribes and play some beach games.

AFTER LUNCH

We meet up at the Bethany hall. We were put into our tribes. We were in tribe 4 ( the grubs, the boys came up with that name) We had 5 minutes to get changed into our bather because we were going to play some beach games. Our first beach game was to dig under the pool noodle that has been hammered to the sand. Rules: you have to dig under the pool noodle without touching it. Once you think you have dug deep and far you send someone to go under the pool noodle. If they touch the pool noodle that team has to count to ten then start again. First one to get their whole team to the other side wins. 

We dug and dug until our arms fell off. We were desperate to win. Our hole was deep and far, so our team thought it is now a good time to send someone under the pool noodle. Everyone said that I should go under first because I was really skinny and small. I went under the pool noodle and I made it to the other side! Except I had sand everywhere! I did not like that. But I didn’t care about that, I cared about winning this activity. We eventually got everyone to the other side.

 A COUPLE MINUTES LATER

Our teacher announced the winners .DRUM ROLL PLEASE!  We came  3RD!!!!  Yay! We cheered happily. 

Our next activity was the bucket with holes in them. Rules: you have to fill your big bucket with the little bucket that has holes in them. It is really hard! 

In this activity we came last. I didn’t care though. That was our last beach game. We walked back to the camp site. Our next activity was water obstacle. That was so stressful. The boys were slowing us down!!!!!! I was mad. In this activity we came 3rd. 

My roommates and I had a shower plan. I would go first then everyone else. I had a nice warm shower. I had sand everywhere I even had some in my hair. I got changed and went to dinner. I did not like dinner. They served us cold sausages. At least dessert was good. For dessert we had chocolate mousse. After dessert everyone sang happy birthday to me. I had some lollie bags for everyone. I gave them to everyone. Everyone said happy birthday to me when I gave them out. Then we had to stay in our rooms. Then Lights out at 10:00. We played a mega UNO game. We never actually finished the UNO game because we got a bit distracted with stuff. We had a 9:30 midnight feast. We had lollies, banana, apple and biscuits. We all shared the food. Then the teacher came and knocked on our door saying it was now time to go to bed. It was the……..

 BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!!!!!!

Day 2

Tuesday 29th November 2022

I had woken up with a loud noise. It was just some loud cockatoos. I checked the time and it was 5:23am. Two other of my friends had woken too. They was just chatting. Eventually the rest of my dorm members started to wake up. By then it was 6:30am, we had 1 and a half hours until breakfast. We brushed our teeth and got changed. We were all yelling at each other because everyone wanted to go to the bathroom. It was hilarious.

  1.5 hours later

At 8 o’clock it was breakfast time. The hall was really loud. It sounded like there was 100 monkeys inside. I think there were a couple of monkeys inside. The boys were being silly and making monkeys noises. I couldn’t stand it. For breakfast there was cereal or toast. I had cereal. But the cook only put a little bit of milk. I was pretty much having just cereal without milk. I was hoping lunch was going to better.  We all meet up at the Bethany hall to chat about what tribes were going to do what. Our tribe was going to do kayaking first. I got changed into some clothes that were going to get wet. I wore some water proof shorts that I usually wear when I go kayaking with my family. We walked down to the Hindmarsh River. We had to pick a kayak buddy. My kayak buddy was my best friend. We picked a kayak and hopped into it. While we were on the water we learnt how to raft and how to go backwards, forwards, left and right. We had to listen to the teacher and some rules about the kayak. All I wanted to do was start kayaking. Finally, the teacher said the word “ let’s go”.  My friend and I was paddling so hard. We accidentally got stuck in a bush. But that didn’t stop us. We bumped into rocks and other people. We rafted and then the teacher said we can play a game. We played world nation. Rules: you have to pick a country ( eg: Italy) then you have to kayak and tap the back for someone’s kayak. If you tap them they become your country. The country that has the most people win. Ready set go! We were off. Tapping the back of other people’s kayak. Until something terrible happened. Australia tagged us!!!!!! We were going so good until Australia tagged us! Once we had finished playing world nation we had to race the teacher back to the start. Me and my best friend were just behind the teacher. We were on her tail until we got stuck in another bush. I think bushes are my worst enemy. Unfortunately we didn’t beat the unstoppable teacher. But we were the first students to hop out the water. We dried our selves with our towel and waited for everyone to come out of the water. We walked back to camp and went over to our next activity station. Our next activity was the flying kiwi. ( if you don’t know what a flying kiwi is search it up on google because it is a bit hard to explain) It was so high!! It was about 75m high .I was to scared to go on it. The teacher number us, that was the order we were going in. I was number 7. What happens is that they threw a rope over a big tree and you get tied onto that rope and then everyone else pull you so you go up into the sky. It looks like you are flying. 

A couple minutes later…

My number was called. I walked up slowly. I had all these thoughts in my head, what happens if the rope breaks? What happens if I faint in the air??? I was super nervous and a little bit excited. They tied the rope around me then in 3 seconds I was up in the air. I could see the beach and the roads and mountains. I loved it. Now I know what it feels like  to fly. Then in another 3 seconds it was over. I really wanted to do it again but we could only have one turn each. After the flying kiwi we had lunch.  After lunch we got changed into our bathers and put a wetsuit on. We were going to the beach to do raft making and body boarding. We walked all the way to the beach with a board in our hands.  Once we got to the beach we placed our boards and towels on the sand. Then the teacher explained the rules. We had to make a raft using wood, string and inflatable tyres. Once we had made our raft we had to launch it in the water with someone on it. Once we have done that twice we have to dismantle it and put everything in a neat pile. We had made our raft and then my team mates said I should go on it first because I was the lightest. We thought we were going good until a humongous wave came and washed me and the raft back upon the shore. The raft had broken apart. I kept going….. I really shouldn’t have gone on the raft first because I had sand everywhere! I think I even had some in my mouth. Gross! After I had gone in the water twice we dismantled the raft and put it in a neat pile. We had come 3rd out of 6 teams. It was that bad. Once we had finished raft making we got out our boards and then we waited for the instructor. He told us what to do and not do. Finally after a couple of minutes we were allowed to go in the water. I caught superb waves! Until there was a gigantic wave and it pushed me about 30 meters away from the group. I swam back to the shore and walked to where my group was.  After an hour of fun we went back to the other tribes to tell them everything that happened. I quickly hopped into the shower before anyone else could. On the floor of the shower was sand! All that sand was from me!!! After a super quick shower I got changed and waited for my friends so we could all go to dinner. For once dinner was yummy.  For dinner we had chicken schnitzel with a delicious gravy. The only think I didn’t like was the vegetables. They were a bit hard. After dinner we had dessert. For dessert we had vanilla ice cream with a chocolate, strawberry or caramel syrup on-top. I had it with chocolate syrup. After dinner we got changed into our Pjs and played UNO. Then we played Would You Rather? At 10:00 the teacher came to our door saying in was now bedtime. We brushed our teeth and went to bed. We left the bathroom light on because some people in my dorm were a bit scared of the dark. We talked then I slowly started to fall asleep. I woke up again in the middle of the night because someone in my dorm was singing to herself to sleep. I was shocked. Then I slowly fell asleep.

Day 3 

Wednesday 30th November 2022

Today we were leaving Adare. I was a bit upset but I was also excited to go home! All my friends had woken up before me and all ready started to pack. I got out the clothes I was going to wear and quickly went into the bathroom before there would be a queue. After all my dorm room mates had gotten changed we all started to pack and then we cleaned the dorm and made sure we didn’t leave anything behind. 

An Hour Later

We put our bags near the white marquee and went to play on the grass. We played Tag and Hide & Seek. Then our teacher called us for breakfast. For breakfast we had toast or cereal again! I went for toast.

After breakfast we had our last tribe games. Our first tribe game for the day was the team relay. It is basically some obstacles and we have to go past, through , under or over them. We have to get our whole team to the other side. I already knew that we weren’t going to win because the boys were trying to make us lose. I think I can predict the future. The boys were just chatting away while all the girls had to do all the work and give out all the commands. It was torture. We were in the lead until the last obstacle. We had to set up all the dominos in a line and knock them over. The boys kept knocking down the dominos over and over again. So then the other team quickly put there dominos in a straight and then knocked them over in one small flick. The girls were really annoyed at the boys. Our next activity was the amazing race. We had a piece of card with questions and  we had to find the answers before the timer ran out. My team were on fire. We were going really good. We had gotten 4 questions correct. Finally the timer ran out. We had gotten 7 questions right. We all congratulated everyone then we moved onto our next activity. Our next activity was Brain Twister. You need to use your brain and be a team to complete these games

 20 Minutes Later….

 Once we finished all the games we went to the Bethany hall and then we all said goodbye to all the instructors. I was really excited to go home!!!  Then we had lunch, for lunch we had rolls. In my roll there was butter, cheese and ham. We had a quick 30 minutes to eat our roll. If we finished all our lunch we would get ice cream. I really wanted the ice cream so I was shoving my lunch in my mouth. ( I did get the Ice cream)  after eating the delicious chocolate ice cream. We got our luggage and hopped onto the bus. Then we said goodbye to Adare. I was really sad leaving Adare but I was also excited to get home! My bus buddy and I fell asleep on the bus. 

 1.5 hours later….

We finally reached school then we ran straight up to the classroom and we turned on the Tv and we started to watch a movie. We watched SpongeBob until the bell went for the end of the day.  

The End!!!!