Camp!

Posted by: georgiam3 on: April 10, 2009

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It was 8:00 on Sunday morning and we were all standing outside our classroom waiting to get on the bus for our trip down to Wellington. The luggage was being packed and everyone was jumping around excitedly. Soon we jumped on the bus and were off. Everyone was talking at the start of the trip and looking out of the windows.  I looked out the window we were in Te Kuiti, that’s when our I-pods came out and we started listening to music. Everybody was singing and soon got bored of that too. But we were only half way there so we started talking again. Soon we were at the War Museum and looking round it was very interesting and we were all quite fascinated at all the exhibits they had. We had lot’s of fun we then had lunch by the Museum. It was very windy. After lunch we boarded the bus again and headed off, this time to Wellington. After a while we were traveling past the sea. It was like no-one had ever seen the sea before everyone rushed over to look at the sea and there was a small hush in the bus. After lot’s more traveling at last we reached the camp everyone yelled yeah we’re here where I was sitting, then we all spilled off the bus. We grabbed our bag’s and hurried to our cabins to see what they looked like. Everyone unpacked what they needed for the night then went off to jump on the bouncy pillow we were playing on the pillow until we had to go to dinner and the showers. It was an exhausting day and everyone was quite tired but we didn’t go to sleep straight away.

Day one

On the first day of our camp we went to the kairori Wild Life Sanctuary. When we got there we were early. Some of us hopped off the bus and took lot’s of pictures of the bush and things around us then went back to the bus. We waited for the Instructor. After a while we were in the actual Sanctuary and were learning about the animals and history of the Sanctuary. While we were there we walked over most of the Sanctuary and saw a Karaka, two Tuatara’s, one boy and one girl and listened to bird calls. We also were there when one of the official Wild Life People let go a baby karaka and he told us some things about what he does and why they put the rings on them. While he was talking one of the karaka’s was on the feeding dish and eating some food we tried to take a picture and it flew up into the trees. We had lot’s of fun at the Sanctuary and learnt alot, but we had to get going so we boarded the bus again and headed off to the famous Weta Cave. When we got there one of our groups went into see a movie and the rest of us looked around the shop. It was amazing everything we saw actually looked real and we knew most of the characters we saw from the films that they are from. After a while the other group came out and we got to see the film it was all about how they worked and all the stations in the workshop it was quite interesting and  I learnt alot. After that we jumped back on the bus to go have lunch and visit Te Papa. I had never been to Te Papa and it was amazing. My group spent ages on the first floor and sort of swept through the others. It was amazing the things we saw there was the Giant Squid and another part where you took your photo and could put it on your screen and make it do things like bounce. My favourite parts were the Giant Squid, the hologram of the people on the boat and the magic screens. Te Papa was great, but we couldn’t stay there forever so we soon had to leave to the next awesome place. It was the capital E building where we got to make a cool TV show and a Funky Video clip with your own song. On this particular day I was going to the ONTV program with my group. I was the presenter and when we got down there I got to put on a costume and sit on the stage. It was great fun and after a while we were up to our final show. The whole thing stated up.” Silence in the studio, starting count down 5 4321 , then it all started and it was all go from there. I think the show was great and after we had finnished filming we got to watch it. It was really funny and everyone laughed and had fun then it was time to get back to camp and go to bed.

          This is me and Jake on ONTV.

Day Two

On day two we all woke up early and left for the Ferry to Picton. Once on the ferry we put our bags down and explored the ship. It took three and a half hours to get to Picton, but it was a good trip. I was out the top of the boat most of the time and the wind got very strong. At one point we were nearly blown over. We went past the Marlborough’s Sounds and it was beautiful. Once at Picton we walked around and had lunch there after about two hours in Picton we all gathered back at the Ferry Terminal to board and go back to wellington. It was really fun on the way back to Camp and it took no time at all. Once back at Camp we all went on the Jumping Pillow and also chilled out in our cabins the Ferry was great and one of my favourites of our whole camp.         On the Ferry going to Picton.

Day Three

On the third day of camp we headed off in morning to the Westpac Stadium. It was marvelous. Our group firstly went up top and looked out on the feild. We talked about what the seats cost and other important stuff about the Stadium. Next we got lead downstairs to look at the changing rooms and the actual Stadium. It was really interesting and cold at the same time. sadly we had to leave the Stadium and board the bus where it was nice and warm. Next stop was the Cathedral and Parliament. At the Cathedral we were shown around the Cathedral and a smaller room and the halls. We saw alot of interesting stuff and the stain glass windows were great. For the second part of our tour we went up into the bell tower where they had 15 bells. it was amazing, a long climb up stairs, but you could go into every part of the bell tower even where you see the proper bells. After that we went to the Dead Flag room where it had all these flags and the ritual was that the would stay there until they decayed into nothing. There was tonnes of flags in this room and even Sir Edmond Hilary’s flag. When we went back down to the Cathedral room we said Thank You for the tour and walked across the road to Parliament where we ate lunch. The we went inside and got a guided tour around Parliament. Firstly though we went into a room and put our bags down. We then got told things about Parliament and Mr Shane Ardern came to talk to us. We got to ask questions about John Key and his work then he had to go to get ready to go into the debating room. After we talked to him we went to the debating room as well and saw John Key and Helen Clark. We were also in there when John Key was congratulating Helen Clark and saw a standing ovation. After that we finished and headed off to the cable carts to go up and see the view of  Wellington. Next up was the new Dowse it was magnificent everything in there was sooooo cool. There was tonnes of exhibitions and it was awesome I really like the Cinderella and Maui exhibition and the Plastic Moari one as well. Then we went to the pool and had alot of fun finally we were going back to camp and feel asleep easily that night.

Day Four

On the last day of our camp we went to the National Museum first thing in the morning then to the Wahine Disaster Museum. The Wahine was quite scary ,but we learnt a heap we saw where  the boat sunk and other stuff like that it was really interesting and cool. Next up was the Wellington Zoo.It was awesome we got to see Tahi the one legged Kiwi and lot’s of other great animals. We also saw the chimps put on a real show it was really funny. After the Zoo we went back to Capital E for our sound house. It was great I loved my music and  my video wasn’t that bad. After Capital E we went back to the camp for our last night everyone couldn’t get to sleep, but finally did in the end. 

Going Home 

 On the last day of camp we got up early,packed the bus and left, it was a great camp and once we got home we were really tired, but also glad to be home! My favourite parts of camp were Te Papa, Capital E, the Ferry to and from Picton, The Dowse Art Gallery and the Wahine Disaster. Our Wellington camp was the best!!!