Monday, 2 September 2019

Mt Ruapehu Camp!

Camp, My icey Journey!!❄❄

Hey bloggers and welcome back to my blog!
Today I will be blogging about my amazing time at camp! For camp we went to Mt Ruapehu and we stayed at The Crossing Backpackers lodge it was about 5 minutes away from where we stopped to swap into a shuttle. On the 20th of August to the 23rd of August we stayed at the lodge then we came back to school. We had to get to school at 7:30am with our bags so that we could leave at 8:15am. It was so much fun on the bus we said jokes and slept. We were put into groups the groups were
Green (My group), Turquoise, Pink, Orange, blue, red, purple and yellow. My group was green and the people in my group were Neeve, Genevieve, Hepi, Aarav, Sema, Apollo, and Alan but Sema didn't come. Our adults in the group were Chris, and Mala. Mala is Ishaans Mum and Chris is Brittany's Dad.

Our first stop was the Hamilton Gardens and the bus company that drove us everywhere was Johnstons coastline. It took us about an hour and a half to get there. When we did get there we all got settled down by putting our bags with our colour groups and getting something to eat. After this we got into our groups and the teachers gave us 4 papers. These papers had things that are in different gardens like statues and we had to look for them in 2 hours. We did really good and came out with time to spare. After the Hamilton gardens we went to the Edmund Hillary walkway where it had boards all about New Zealand and the special things about New Zealand. We had more papers to fill in but these papers had different boards on them with questions about each one of them. We had to read the messages and find the answers to the questions. Once we had finished we walked to a park. The park was called the new childrens Park Jim Barker. The walk was just 2 minutes and we got to play for about an hour and a half. When we left we were going to Taumarunui school for a little break since we had been driving around for ages. After we got to play for a while we went to National park and then the lodge where we would be staying.

Once that was finally over we got to have a nice hot shower and a delicious dinner which the people who worked there made. We got to walk around talk about our day and play games until bed time which was at 9:30pm and lights out was at 10:00pm. When we woke up we had to put our snow gear on and go down for breakfast. When we were all done we hopped onto the bus and left to Whakapapa (on the mountain). When we got there we got our gear for the mountain and went to have free time at the snow.
We went sledding first it was so fun and we go on the magic carpet once you are down. Then after all the fun we go and have morning tea then we went on the gondola's. It was so much fun going up because it was my fist time going on a gondola. Then we had our snowboarding lessons it was so funny because I fell over so many times. Then we had to go back to the lodge and put everything into the dryer and clean our clothes.
The next day when we went it was our last day on the mountain so we all tried to have a very fun time. We had our lessons straight away this time and this time everyone was more enthusiastic and were way better. After the lesson we ate a little and got a hot chocolate and went back outside for free time. We got free time for a few hours then we had to leave. It was so much fun on the mountain and everyone had a great time.

Here is the links to my slides shows about camp
Slide show 1
Slide show 2

Hope you enjoyed reading my blogpost!!
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