Year+8+camp+2011

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Our year 8 camp this year is at Mt Makahika on the 9th, 10th and 11th of November. At camp I want to over come my fear of hights because we will be doing high ropes and I'm really scared of heights. Also during camp I will be learning how to make fires and I will also learn heaps of skills out in the bush.


 * My Reflection On Camp: **

I think that I did good on the high ropes and on the flying fox because when you do them you are quite high up in the air, I thought while I was doing them I overcame my fear of hights because I ended up doing them and I never thought I could. The high ropes was scary but once I was up there, there was no going back !!!

I would love to do the high ropes again even though they are really scary !!!!, but if I would do it hopefully Sam would do it with me because when I did it she was there to help me :)

I think that I need to work on telling people my ideas because when we were doing the barrel thing I was trying to tell them and idea but they wouldn’t listen to me so I just kept my mouth shut.

** Day 1: ** The first activity we had to in partners ( boy and girl ) and then we got a map of the place and a piece of paper and we had to go and look for clippers and then we had to clip a piece of paper, we had to find quite alot !and once you've clipped them all you go back to the place you started at and they give you a time. For the second activity we got split up into two big groups and the group I was in got to go on the flying fox first, after that we did the low ropes then we did this activity with planks of wood and barrels. Then when we all had finished we went on the high ropes in partners ( didn't have to be girl, boy ). All of those activities were really fun and I wouldn't mind doing them again.

**Day 2** On day 2 we went on a really long tramp in the bush, we went up and down really steep hills and through heaps of rivers. We also made fires, it was so fun !!!!!

**Day 3** On day 3 we went river crossing, when we crossed the river we had to hook up. It was so fun :)

Overall I really enjoyed camp and I thought it was an awesome experience, I would be happy to do it all again :) Thank you Mr Mackay and Mrs Stevens for organizing it and thanks to all of the parent help !!!!