Camp Post

Last week the Rimu House year 8's went to camp at Ngamuwahine Outdoor Education Lodge.

I'm proud that I did everything that was on offer, even though I was a little bit scared for the high ropes and abseiling because I did not do abseiling last year, but I completed it this year. Another scary thing to do was the Vertical Playpen, that is where you have to climb a post and while you climb it moves, then you have to climb onto a beam, the next object is to get onto the tiers, pull your self up onto another beam, you had to throw your  self over the next beam while standing on a rope shaped like a mouth, then climb through a tyre and sit on it.

Believe it or not on Tuesday night all of the girls slept outside on the ground in the bush in a Bivouac tied to trees with ropes, it was freezing, we sat around the fire and told scary stories and lots of the girls were getting a little bit scared. We were aloud a torch to turn on in the night if we got scared.

The biggest challenge was abseiling because I did not do it last year and I had never done it before, the climbing up part was easy but getting lowered to start climbing down the abseiling wall it was so scary. You have to climb up about 15-20 meters high and Mr Smith would clip you in and lower you so your bum was lower than your feet, and you would start slowly stepping, but I stepped really fast because I was scared.