Te Wera Camp

The day had come; I mean the day we go to Te Wera. The bus arrived, I was actually late so the bus had to come up the drive way so I wouldn’t be too late to Te Wera, I brought my tamagotchi to play with on the bus. I got heaps of points playing the games that were on it, and so did every body else.

When we got to Te Wera camp we played relays on the play ground, the first thing you had to do in the relay was do the rock climb then slide down the other end on a rope, after that bit of relay we did a thing called a rope bridge, then their were the jungle bars which you had to climb on the bars then the rope climb over to the other side and then last of all we had to the use a rope to help us get up a wall and then slide down the other end.

The whistle blew for us to come inside, inside Carolynne told us the about the activities we were going to do and where they were.
Then we met Mr Archer and he told us how to collect insects out of the river by using a sieve and a scrubbing brush, he told us that you use the scrubbing brush to scrub the edge of the of the grass in the stream and put the sieve in front of the brush so you catch the insects.

Then we went down to the stream and caught heaps of insects and put them into the container on the bank, we had turns at catching the insects in the stream. The people in my team were Kelly, Peter and Shane. We caught all sorts of insects, and then we got the tweezers and got the insects and put them in the bug box.

Then we went back to camp and had a big lunch and get ready to play a game called predator. Miss Hooper and Mr Chapman were handing out the bibs. Huiakama's teacher was telling us how to play. They told us that the prey each had 8 stickers on their bibs and if any predators touched the prey the predators would take one sticker off the preys bib and put it on their bib, but if any of men with gun or men with poison they only had to touch would be dead immediately.

Then we went to do team building when we first saw the events we were all thinking that it was impossible to do but in the end the first event was pretty easy. You just had to get to the middle of a wobbly board. We were all thinking we weren’t going to get pas the second event it was called “The Wall’ you had to lift someone up and they had to get to the top of the wall. It was tricky at the end when there was no-one was at the bottom to lift the person. So we tried to grab onto the person at the bottom when she jumped. The next event in team building was the pole. You had to put a tyre tube over a pole by lifting a person in your team up with the tube. Then you have to get it off again. After that we did the balance beam. Two people had to walk in opposite directions and cross over each.

Next we did archery. It took a while to get used to the handling of the bow and arrow and how to aim the arrow at the target. Eventually I got the target. In the end I got it a couple of times. Kristal got a bulls-eye. Shane and I almost did too.

On Tuesday I got up and had Honey Puffs and Mum got my gear ready. Poor Rhys had to stay home and play Playstation. Then Angus and Callum arrived to pick me up. When we got to Te Wera we played stuck in the mud on the playground. The Bushman Bob told us to come inside. He talked to us about safety in the bush. You need a survival kit and a first aid kit. Also you need enough food to last. Also he told us you need to have equipment to build a shelter. It doesn’t have to be comfortable. It just has to keep you warm and dry.

Then we had a test to see if your survival tents were strong enough.