Free Writing: Year 7 & 8's Ski Camp

Free Writing

Note: There are thing that I've missed and I couldn't do it all due to the time I was given, I will try and get a more detailed blog post about it. Hope you enjoy it :)

Ski Camp

Last (Week 8) some of the Yer 7 & 8's went to ski camp (me included). We have been having disco's, mufti's, hot lunche's, and many more fundraises to get there. Monday morning we were to be at the school at 7 0'clock so that we could leave the school at 7:30. When we got their we had to wait for the bus to get here, our bus drivers name was Opai ( I don't know how to spell it). He was the best driver ever. Anyways when he got there we had to put all our suit cases or bags that we had into the bottom of the bus, and we had to put all our foods that we had to take down to Ohakune as well. After the bus was packed we had to make sure that everyone was here and jump in our day groups. I was in Group 3 and my adult was Matua Rob. Talking bout the adults, our teacher helpers were, Whaea Dinks, Whaea Nga (my mum), Matua Anthony, Matua Paul, Matua Anaru, and Matua Rob. So everyone jumped into our day groups with our adult, pretty much we had a roll call. Once Roll was all marked we had a karakia then we hit the road straight after. First toilet break was in Welsford. Our first eating stop was at a park just before Auckland. We had our Morning Tea Break. We were just at a public park by the sea. Morning Tea was finish back on the bus we went.  Next stop was in Otra Hola for our lunch Break. We visited an out side museum area where we learnt things about New Zealand, like kiwi slang. After that stop we didn't stop and just went straight to Ohakune where we stayed at a lovely lodge called Station Lodge. A few hours later...

It's now about 4:40 and we have arrived at the Station Lodge first impressions were like " That doesn't look like the picture!". But I was just glad that we made it. So we went into one of the lounges and Whaea Jess told everyone pour sleeping areas. Our next instruction were to get all our gear ready in our rooms for the next day, our first day of skiing. We slept on it and woke up the next day at 6:30 to start getting ready. Everyone was making sure they got all their gears so that we could go straight away but we had to have breakfast first. When we got their everybody's jaws dropped cause we had seen the snow coming down. The second day went pass nice and smoothly. The 4th day we went to the Army Museum to learn things about the army. We also had a lesson about cooking our food as if we were in the army. The next day no body was ready, it was home time, no body wanted to leave and go home. We all jumped on the bus and weren't that happy well I wasn't happy. This is not all of my ski camp experience there is more to it and I will probably do a more detailed blog post on it.