Camp - day 1

To Marlborough Sounds

As the school went excitedly onto the big big ferry are hearts where full to the brim with excitement. We all could't wait to explore the boat.

As all five groups went to explore the maze of the boat, most of the groups went to the play ground that was... all... the... way... down... stairs.        
   

MY OVERSEAS TRIP

                           MY OVERSEAS TRIP

On the 13^th of April my big trip started. Mum and me flew out from Auckland then we arrived at Kuala Lumpar. We swapped planes and we were on the biggest plane ever, an airbus which took us over to London. I really enjoyed watching the cool movies but didn’t really enjoy the food we got. It was such a long way on the plane didn’t sleep too good either.

When we arrived in London we had a couple of days there to have a look around. We did the famous Red Bus Tour, which took us to all the sights around London. We sat up on the top deck which was cool and you got a good look at everything thing. We stopped at Buckingham Palace but the Queen wasn’t home. We watched the guards and they were standing so still. I saw Big Ben, it was so big and it had gold shinning on it. I even got to hear it chime. The next day we went for a cruise down the River Thames, there were heaps of tourists on our boat. It was good to leave London, as it was such a busy city.

We then got on the train up to Edinburgh, to see Scottish Grandad and Uncle Graham. We visited so many of places. I liked going to see Edinburgh Castle and I saw the Scottish Crown Jewels. Scottish Grandad took us to Deep Sea World and we got to see the Forth Bridges. I even found grey squirrels at the Princes Street gardens, they were so cute.  I also enjoyed going to Camera Obscure, there were so many weird and wacky things to do, mirror maze and 3d effects it was awesome.

For the last few days left of my trip mum took me on the train up to her hometown Thurso. We stayed with her good friend Tracey. We went for a drive about to show me around to John O Groats and Dunnet Head which is at the very top of Scotland. On our last night we took her dog Georgy a walk down to the river then we went to see Thurso Castle which is now just a ruin.

Then we got all our things packed up as we then had to head back down to Heathrow to get our flight back to New Zealand.
P.S the UK is the best place in the world I have ever been

By Nikki Mckinnon.

Age 11

Camp - day 3

As we all rushed to the Nature Tour boat carrying all our stuff we then ran into the boat and set off. The Marlborough Sounds was amazing. We saw Hector dolphins with the rounded dorsal fin. As well on the boat we got to do singing which was funny! We all had a ball, Then we went back to Picton Harbor for one night and stayed one night at the Villa. The best thing was we had a spa!! At night Jada had fell of the top bed. Chonny then found Hannah with her head under her bed. She touched her to make sure she was alive. ,She was.

Camp - day 2

The wind blew in our faces as we went on the stand up paddle boards. People were sailing their hearts out.
At the jetty James and Johnny were wriggling the hand lines trying to snag a big one,on the side of the jetty using mussels as bait.
Nachos for dinner tonight with mince and cheese ... yum! all you can herd was the chowing and  When everyone went back to the counter to more! when Hannah's group had to clean up. Then Hannah opened the fridge door and a bowl fell out with a crash!! the bowl was fill with cheese. They cleaned the crashed bowl up but there was still a tiny little bit of glass left. Hannah was being funny and popped a squat on the floor and got a bit of glass in her BOTTOM!!

In the morning we had bacon and eggs for breakfast YUUUUM!! and everyone was chowing down on chocolate spread ... oh and cereal. Today I'll go on the sup board.    
   

we are at mustoe bay now and we are haveing a grat time we dint alot of stuff we are colo an dthbe bay is fun

Mistletoe Bay Camp - Day 1

As we went on the ferry are hearts beating. We found a spot and sat down for lunch. After that we went out to look around. We all went to the play ground and other stuff. We went to the top deck and then did other stuff. We then went back to our seat to get a drink and food. We went back to the playground the playground was fun, but then sadly it closed.

Feilding Market

Last Friday the leaders of the whanau groups went to the Feilding market. We sold lemon syrup, elderflower cordial, lemon honey, walnuts and lemons. We chose these as we had a lemon theme and we wanted to use local produce. In the week before each whanau group worked with June to make our products. We had to figure out how we would present them on our stall, what the price would be and create labels and signs.
At the market everyone had a turn at selling on the stall and going and looking at he other market stalls. The stall looked good but it was a bit tricky to set up our stall with all of the wind and rain. Everyone bought heaps from the other market stalls. We sold $40 worth of our goods. We were pleased with this because we weren't there for long because of the weather.
It was fun ... even though it was a bit wet. We learnt that you have to be patient when you have a stall. It was great to talk to and sell to people from Feilding. They were very friendly.
After we had taken down our stall we went to the Feilding library to warm up with a hot chocolate and a book.
By Nikki