Kia ora,
Last week on Tuesday we were sent on camp, just the year 10's . It was all of Tieke and half of Riroriro. We went to a place called Boyle River Outdoor Education Center, also known as BROEC. When we finally got to Boyle River, after the 3 hour bus ride we went to the cabins and dropped our bags off, and while we were in there we chose where we wanted to sleep,.2 of the bunks were 3 high, that doesn't sound tall but trust me, it is. When we were finished we got to see what the groups were in and who our camp instructor will be. I got an awesome instructor who was called Devin. He grew up in America and moved to New Zealand 6 years ago. We did a couple of group activities and they were pretty fun.
But when it came around 6 oclock at night, we had dinner. The dinner was mac n cheese. then we did a group activity called nightline. We were in the woods with a rope we had to hold, and we had to be blindfolded and in a pair with another person. I was with Aryan. The activity was kind of hard but we did it, then when we went to sleep and woke up in the morning. We had weetbix, milo, and other cereals, then we got on out with our group (group 5) and went with Devan. We did a couple of activities and they were pretty fun where we had to put planks on wood and walk across it without the wood breaking. Then dinner that night we had fried rice and also a milo.
After dinner we went out again with a group of people. Some people (15 of them) did a thing where they sit in the woods for an hour by yourself and wait for people to come back, . didn't do it though, everyone that came back said they went to sleep or were seeing scary things. When we finished all of that we got back to the lodge and went to sleep again.
In the morning it was the same stuff, weetbix and other cereals, plus a milo on the side. That day we went to the swamp and did the same thing, the planks on the wood, but this time it was scarier because it was over water. It took around 20 minutes to get everyone across with only 3 planks of wood. and at the end of the day we went on a long walk, it was like 2 hours, and did a thing where we had to cross 2 wires harnessed onto it so you don't fall into the river, one wire under your feet and wire above you so you can hold on when going across.
Then when we got to our destination we had a huge fire, like 2 square meters wide. we made rice on some cookers and boiled water, they also brought nachos and vegeterian sauce, we also has marshmallows and went to go find some sticks. When we found our sticks we put them above the fire to heat them up a little bit and make it so they weren't completely wet, for the next 20 minutes we were putting the marshmallows on the fire. When we were finally done we went all the way back to the lodge and had a massive sleep.
In the morning when we woke up we did a thing called the amazing race. It consisted of everything we did in the 3 days, we did a thing where we needed to have someone in a harness and people pulling on them from the other side, there was a pole above them and the rope went over it. The person in the harness needed to stack the crates and stand on them for the points to count,we got 537 and some of the other groups only just got up to 200-300.
At the very end when we were just about to leave the people came up and said we won the challenge, we got the most points out of every group, and there were 5 groups. we thanked all of the people and got back on the bus, then we were back at school and went home.
