This Terms Topics.

This term in room 10, we are learning about careers, learning and reading with understanding, to think using our times tables and division strategies. We are also learning to persuade through writing. We hope everyone had a great holiday and we also hope everyone gets back on track and start working again.

By Vincent Chen

Jeremiah's Recount

The Amazing Camp Glentui

On Tuesday the 28^th of February, it was an exciting day week because I was going to camp. When I woke up I ate my cereal, brushed my teeth and got dressed up for camp. Then I, my sister and my dad drove off to school. I said to my dad and sister goodbye.

First at school lots of cars were parked at the courts. Then I was looking for the car that I was going in. After that I kept looking, looking, and looking but I didn’t know which car so I asked Mr. Barr. He said “You’re with Suzi, Kaylee’s mother.” When Mr. Barr finished talking he showed me were she was (and her car). Then I saw Kaylee, Montana, Olivia, Lucas, and Hunter behind the car. When that was finished John Q., Dave, and Sam walked up to me and just talked.

Just the Mr. Barr blew the whistle and called all of us for a quick brief meeting on how to get there also our behavior on the court with the parents and teachers and students. When Mr. Barr was finished talking he said “Lets go,” with excitement.

We all went inside the car me and Hunter were at the back, Montana, Lucas, and Olivia were in the middle of the car, Kaylee and her mom were at the front of the car. And we were off and on the road and about 30 minutes we got so bored. Then Kaylee put on a Glee CD me and Hunter just ignored it but Lucas was really annoyed of the whole car trip and then Hunter said “You should have taken the back seat Lucas,” and after like a minute he also said, “I feel for you mate.” After 1 hour & 30 minutes we were at Glentui Meadows Camp. When we arrived we parked up and took everything and our bags inside the dinning hall.

Then we all waited for the trailer to arrive and everyone stayed warm at the fire because it was so cold inside and outside. And about 11:20am the trailer arrived and some of the parents and students helped carry the bags inside the dining hall. When I found my bags I put everything beside the door, now we had to wait for Mr. Russell and his cabin sheet. But then Mrs. Mac said “Just go and look for your cabin mates,” and so we went and looked.

Sam, Dave, Caleb, and I were upstairs and went to the 10^th cabin. We looked around and we unpacked our bags, and went to search for the other 4 people in our cabin. So we looked downstairs and looked inside the 4^th cabin and there were Tim, Vincent, Alex, and Sean. Then Caleb said “you guy’s there’s a cool cabin upstairs and there’s a curtain,” then Tim said “but I just unpacked,” and then they just followed us to the 10^th cabin. Then we heard a whistle blow, we all went to the common room and Mr. Russell was there also with Mr. Barr. We all sat down on the carpet and listened to what Mr. Russell was saying and he was saying the group rotations. Then after that I knew I was in group 3 with John.

On the first rotation we did outdoor cooking with Mr. Barr and we made pikelets from a hobo stove and John and I made 3 pikelets. Then we went to Mr. Russell and played softball and our team won. After that we did River Study with the DOC people and we caught tiny little creatures in the river. Then it was morning tea we were allowed to take two biscuits and I just went inside our cabin and Caleb, Sam and I were just playing a card game. And then Mr. Barr came in for inspection and Mr. Barr said “you’ll get 9 out of 10 for your cabin,” and then he just went to the other cabin to inspect. After that we had dinner and the hosts were going to cook and the hosts were Jarn and Gea. We ate and it was the best dinner I ever had and after dinner we had dessert and it was the best and it was delicious. Jarn and Jay are the best cooks ever.

On the 2^nd day I went down and had breakfast cornflakes with milk and fruit salad and I also had toast with jam. Then I went up and got dressed and went down again and went to common room, and after Mr. Russell had finished talking we did our rotations. Our 4^th rotation was sports with Mr. Russell and we played softball, it was a pretty intense game but we won by 2 points and it was an awesome game. Next we did abseiling we waited for Naomi at the parking lot we just went to the cliff that were going to abseil. While we were walking John and I were just talking. When we got there I waited for a long time for my turn to abseil and I was really nervous that I keep thinking I might fall. Now it was my turn to abseil some people say “It’s not that high,” but to me it was. This is it I was going to do it and I did I felt so scared and like 10 seconds I got used to it and I felt confident and I forgot of thinking that I was going to fall. Then after that I felt really joyful and after that I got back up took my watch and jacket and went to the dinning room at camp. After that we played spotlight at 8 to 9:30 pm and it was really great I got caught on the 1^st game on the 2^nd game I won on the 3^rd I got caught again.

On the 3^rd it was the same as yesterday and the same thing like breakfast then we had a meeting about the walk and you could choose the long or the short walk. I chose the long walk. We had to stay who choose the long walk and discussed about what we had to bring. After we finished we got our bags and packed everything we needed. The walk was supposed to be a 3 hour walk but then it change to a 5 hour walk. At 9:30 we watched Mr. Bean Disaster Movie it was really funny movie and everybody was laughing At 10:30 I was really sleepy and I just went to my bunk and slept.

On the last day it was a fun day because we got to play games at the bottom field and we played lots of games we played non-stop cricket, bullrush and another game of non-stop cricket. It was really fun playing those games, but now we had to go home. I was going home with Beatrice, her mom and her dad (I know her dad that’s why I’m going home in there car) and after a while I got really bored. But then we went to McDonalds and it was great that I had McDonalds again because I haven’t tasted it for along time.

When I got home my legs got sore, I got bitten by sandfly’s, I got bites on my legs and I was really tired. At least I had an awesome time at camp and I really enjoyed it. I wish we had camp again.