Cannibal Gorge Recount

 On the 15th of December 2020, Year eight girls went on a overnight tramp to Cannibal Gorge. In total there is only six year eight girls but three of them were sick so that just left 3 that were going. We had planed the meals we were going to have while staying there, we had back country for dinner and pancakes/bacon for breakfast then for lunch we just packed our own. The walk was a bit challenging for me there was a few long up hills. I had a stomach ache the whole time that was not very helpful but when we had final reached the hut  witch took about four hours to get to we had a snack then went swimming in the creek out the front of the hut. We then played card games and shanghai witch was fun we had tea then Mrs Kemp terrified us with her ghost stories by then it was 10:30 and we went to bed and keep getting scared of every noise we heard because of hearing ghost story's. Next morning was way easier i didn't have a stomach ache and we occupied our minds with talking and that made us not think of the pain. We finally reached the carpark and stopped in reefton to get an ice cream.

Wild Things Work

Whanau Poster

Endurance

Wilderness Bike Track

 On the 22nd of September room 8 went on the wilderness cycle trail for the William Pike challenge. We were sorted into car groups at school then we drove to Milltown where the bike ride started. There are different  sections of the bike ride, some are hard, some are easy. The start of the trail was pretty hard because it had quite a bit of up hill and I'm not an experienced bike rider either. 

On the ride I didn't have many stops because I was behind a bit. The people in the front would stop and I would still be biking then when I finally caught up with them they would go again so I was quite exhausted!  The one stop we did make though was at Cowboy’s Paradise. This was kinda scary because a scary man came out and threatened people in my class that he would kick them up ‘bleep’ because they were skidding on the gravel. It was even more scary because he owned a shooting range and was busted for owning a massive weed farm sooo...

After that we stopped at a place I forget the name of and had lunch. There were cars there if you didn't want to do the other part of the ride. I didn't, so I sat in the shelter thing for a bit. When one of the adults asked me if I had told Ms Kemp that I had pulled out I said that I had forgotten to  so they made me get on my bike to catch up with everyone.  But they were just so far away so I got picked up once again with a couple of other people

Anyway I tried my hardest, even though it was a challenge for me. I did think it was fun zooming down the hills but I wouldn't do it again for fun though!

Tramp Recount

                             Lake Daniels Tramp 

On Wednesday the ninth of September Room 8 went on a spring day tramp to Lake Daniell( Mason Nicholls Hut)  for the William Pike Challenge. Parents helped transport us  there , The tramp was six hours including the travel time and stops. 

Before we actually started walking we had to have our gear checked by the teacher because if we didn't have the correct gear then bad things could happen like getting hypothermia from wearing cotton instead of thermals, not bringing water and getting dehydrated, getting saturated because you didn't bring wet weather gear.

The walk was surrounded by beach forest which was pretty cool and the water was blue.  When we got to Lake Daniels hut we sat down and had lunch by the lake. There wasn't anyone on the tramp or in the hut which was weird but cool though,

The trip back felt way shorter than the trip there.  Some people (including me) got

yelled at for throwing moss at each other so we had to walk at the back in a straight line. 

Apart from that it was a good walk, lots of people enjoyed it, it would be really fun if we could have stayed at the hut and gone swimming in the lake.

Book

 

This book is obviously called top secret it is about German wars and how the spies trained to kill people.

I thought the book was ok tho