Aieshah's Camp Recount

Glentui Camp 2012

On Tuesday morning I woke up I got so excited, I ran to mum and I said, “Mum, mum, I am going to camp today. YAY! Quick. Where is my bag? I need it. I don’t want to be late.” Then mum said that I wouldn’t be late as I woke up too early. The time was 6 am. “Ok but I am still getting ready,” I said.

Next I brushed my hair, had some breakfast and rushed out the door as the school rang mum. But mum’s phone wouldn’t let her answer it. We went in the car and hurried to Merrin School. As we got there, there was nobody at the field. “Oh no, I think we are late,” I said to mum. It turned out that everyone was on the court. But I was too early as not many people had arrived yet. I had gotten worried as I thought that the school rang mum to tell us that we were late but it was really to talk about my sister.

When everyone got to the school, we put all of our things in the car and then we went to sit down and listen to the teachers speak. After a long talk, we got in the car and left for Glentui Meadows. 

 

The drive was very long and boring except for the fact that we were eating lots of lollies. Next we put our bags in the dining room and then the teacher was talking and then the caretakers of Glentui started to talk and explain the rules. Next we put our bags in our bunkrooms and then we discussed sleeping arrangements. All my friends wanted to go on the top bunks so that decision was very hard. But I had an idea. I told everyone that we should have me on the top and Bailey underneath, Madi on the other top with Kyla underneath, Lilly was on the bottom of Vanessa and Caitlin had a bunk to herself. Every night we swapped beds so everyone had a turn on the top. 

Then after that we had to go to the meeting room and line up in our teams. The teachers explained where we were going. First, our group went to the River Study. We looked at the water and saw if there were any bugs that we could have caught with our net. My team got heaps of the bugs in our net. Then after that, we had to split groups and see how clean the water was with the DOC ladies. We discovered that the water was very clean and with one of the DOC ladies we had to use this interesting tube and put it in the water and saw if we could still see the black rod. 

Then we switched activities and we went to Mr. Russell. We played some outdoor games. The outdoor game that we played was softball. When it was my turn to bat, I smashed the ball really far and got a home run. Then it was Sam’s turn and he smacked it further than I did. It went past the trees and over the little hill. 

Next we had to go up to the top of the stairs to have some lunch. I was like “OMG! It’s lunch. YAY! I can go eat!” so I ran up the steps and had some lunch but when I got there, everyone was in line so I had to go to the back of the line because our group was the last to arrive back.  I really wished that the line would move quicker.

After lunch, we all went to our room and my friend’s and I started to play a game but we had to go to our next activity with Mrs Black and Neil. We played shoeing the horse. You had to put the four cups under the legs of your chair and then you had to try and steal your opponent’s cups. When it was Riain and Vanessa’s turn, Riain jumped over and squished her. When it was my turn I bumped heads with Vanessa. Then we had to stop as Vanessa was hurt. She had to sit and watch for the rest of the activity. I was lucky to get another turn as the game was very popular. That was one of the best games that I played but we still had one more activity to do and that was outdoor cooking with Mr Barr. 

Firstly, we were told that we were to make pikelets. We had to gather sticks and stones to put under our Hobo Stove. Then, when he showed us how to make the mix, he realised that he had forgotten to bring the butter and milk so Riain and Sophie had to run up the stairs and get the crucial ingredients. We had to wait for a long time as they couldn’t find them. When they finally got back, we had to make the batter for our piklets. Then when we finished the batter, we had to get into a group of two or three. I went with Kyla and Vanessa but Neil helped us. Then Mr Barr handed out the Hobo Stoves and Riain and Sam got the biggest one because their hole was the best. When we were allowed to make our pikelets, I lit the match and we had to do it a couple of times as the flame wasn’t strong. But when it finally caught a spark, we put the mix on the Hobo Stove. I got to flip the first pikelet. I also got to eat it. It was delicious. 

After that, we went back up the steps and had free time. My friends and I went into our cabin and sat down and talked. But before we knew it, it was tea time. We had pasta, mince and salad. It was delicious. Then we went back to our cabin and played some board games. 

We played spotlight when it got dark but Madi couldn’t play for half of it as she got a bad bee sting. Then after a couple of games of Spotlight, we went and had some Milo’s and cookies. That was YUM. 

Next we went to our bunkroom and got changed in to our pyjamas. We then brushed our teeth and went to the toilet. Then we went back to our bunkroom and Lilly started doing this weird dance. We all had to copy what she did. When we all had to go to bed and turn off the light, we all turned our torches on and started talking. Then some of us went to sleep like me and the other girls kept on talking so a teacher came in and told them off and told them that they would be split up if they kept they kept talking, so they all went to sleep.

On the next day, we had to go for a big long walk so we got ready for it but it wasn’t a nice day. The teachers checked our bags to see if we had a waterproof jacket with a hood and a water bottle. When they finished checking our bags, we had to line up if you were going on the three hour walk. So we left and started walking.

5 hours later, we arrived back at camp. It was a really long walk. My friends and I went and ran into the shower and after that we went back to the bunkroom. Our feet were so sore. We had to have tea after that and we didn’t have any dessert.  But we got to watch a movie. It was funny. Then we went to bed. We all fell asleep extremely quickly. 

On the next day, we had to pack up our stuff and go home. The teacher gave us a number and some of us had to go and do the cleaning and some people went to play a game. I had to go and clean but that was alright. We had to vacuum all the rooms. Then Lilly and I had to go to meeting room and we had to pick up all the little specks of rubbish. Then Mr Russell said that we could play a game. Lilly and I just played moshibelly cards. 

 After that when it was morning tea time we had some cookies.   That was so YUM then we had to go and play a game with Mr Barr and we played cricket or volleyball. But I played volleyball. We stayed there for half an hour and then after that we had to go and  and some lunch. It was yum. Then after the lunch, the teachers quickly said a little comment to the caretakers.  And then we had to go to the cars and go back to school and I was in Madi L.R Dads car and he went the other way so we got there before all the other people so when we went to go and see room 15 play their sport . My mum came so I went to go and see her so after that we went back to see all the other people that had just came back from camp.

After that some people had a water fight that was so fun. But  then some think it was not fun was when some people put so much water all down my back. I was so wet when I went in the car to go home. That was the best camp I have had in my life I loved that camp and I will never forget that camp.

By Aieshah (with Zia's editing assistance).