Camp Writing

Drowning

Whoosh Whoosh went the waves, but this was no time to listen to water. I was in a life threatening situation. “HELP, HELP” I called. I was caught in a rip!! 4 children and an adult came rushing in, 5 meters out from shore and 3 meter deep water. COUGH COUGH!! SPLUTER SPLUTER !! I was sinking. I slowly sank onto the cold, deep, dark, murky depths. But just when my nose filled with water, when all hope was lost, from out of the blue, I was pulled out of the water but it wasn’t over yet I was still coughing and spluttering as they dragged me through the water. How glad I was to see dry land. I heard a deafening thud as I was dropped like a potato or a stone because one of the children had stubbed there toe on a rock, I fell back into the ice cold water. I stood up and said “Drill Over, I died. Not good enough. Start again!”

By Gary.

Kiwi fruit sketches

Here are a few samples of our Kiwi fruit art that we drew using sketching pencils. We looked carefully at kiwi fruit and tried to use our pencils to create a realistic picture.

Bodie's Piece.

Jaedin's Piece.

Samantha's Piece.



Nathan's Diary Entry

Tuesday morning

Today my matches fell into my fire, so now the only heat I have for the cold winter night is my sleeping bag.

At 7:00am I ate 3 strawberries and a cookie. My vegetable crop is not going very well and I have no idea how I'm going to survive until Friday.

At 9:00am all I did was work again.

Today all that went wrong was that my matches fell into the fire and there were not many veggies.

This afternoon I thought I might die from my matches falling into the fire and my sleeping bag and the sun being my only type of heat so I'm felling pretty bummed out.

Tomorrow I might water the crop and kill another chicken so at least I will have some decent food to eat.

By Nathan.

Zonier's First Diary Entry

Day 1 Sunday 21st July

Today I arrived at this unfamiliar place. I had been kid napped by a man that I have never seen before. As I was on the helicopter they had my eyes blind folded, all I could see was darkness. Then he whispered in my ear "You are being taken to this fenced camp... you will not be able to escape until Friday the 26th of July." Then I heard an evil laugh, a laugh that I could remember from some where, but I wouldn't place where. Just that moment, I started panicking. Then they tied my hands up. I was frightened and filled with fear. I asked why I had to come here and he said I was to be in part of a fighting competition against Rey mysterio, John Cena, Bitista and Thee Rock. As I came to the ground they pushed me out.
I dusted myself off and looked in my bag. I found was a first aid kit, a sleeping bag, a complete spare change of clothes, a gas camping stove, a torch and a 24hour ration pack containing one packet of mixed soup, dehydrated veggies, powered milk, fruit cake, one packet of gum, 3 lumps of sugar and 4 biscuits. I had to think about how that would last me for a week.
When I went walking further through the camp all I saw was a wood pile, a hut, bare earth, grassy area, a veggie patch and a goat and some chickens. This is my first half a day here. Hopefully I will have a excellent day tomorrow.

Learning a Waiata

We are getting clever at singing in parts!

Jaedin's survival writing

Monday 10th July   

Today I decided to clean out the water tank but first I had, 6 strawberries, 3 pieces of damper bread and a biscuit for breakfast. After that I started cleaning out the water tank, I used a bucket and the tarpaulin when I took the lid off the tank I screamed because I saw a dead possum. I grabbed it out with the bucket and chucked it over the fence and carried on with my job. For diner I had a piece of fruit cake and four pieces of damper bread.Tomorow I want to kill the hen and have hen soup.

Bodie's Survival Writing.

Tuesday- day 2

This morning when I woke up, I went outside and got some eggs and a tomato for my breakfast. While I was waiting for the eggs to boil, I heard a strange noise. It sounded like one of the chickens were being attacked.

I went to investigate and found that I was half right, because the chickens were attacking each other! I tried to break it up, but they just started pecking me. I started to wonder if there was something wrong with these chickens or I just came in and ruined their fun.

After all that, I got a bit thirsty, so when I finished stitching up all my bruises, I went to the water tank to get a drink. When I got to the water tank, I stepped in something wet… I looked down… I couldn’t believe my eyes… IT WAS WATER FROM THE WATER TANK! The tank had rusted through, springing a leak! There was approximately two buckets left. I knew I had to do something.

So I cut off some bandage, which luckily I had in the first aid kit, and stuck it over the hole and got some water. Right now I’m in lots of pain, lying in bed, writing this diary.         

Written by Bodie Hope.