Bear's Blog -- Camp Report

Yes!!! I survived 4days, 3 nights on Tung Lung Chau! It was awesome! In case you haven’t realised I just came back from camp. It was soooo cool (except for some parts but I’ll get to that later)! As I said, it was awesome!

I’ll start with the not-so-awesome parts. My least favourite thing would have to have been the toilets. They were squats. They smelled so bad!!!! We didn’t even have porcelain! It was just a hole with yellow construction stuff around the outside. But that wasn’t enough to scare off The Sarah!! All though for some kids it worked. My second least favourite thing would be washing up. Our group got the worst meal to wash up. Mashed potatoes and gravy! All we got was 2 buckets filled with water. By the end our water was black! My third thing is that there was no running water on the island. No showers! You should have smelled us 5th graders when we got off the bus. My fourth least favourite thing was the wind. It was really windy at night. The wind was coming off the sea. The wind flap on our tent flap was broken so the wind kept blowing in. Enough of the bad stuff - Now for the fun stuff.

Getting to Tung Lung Chau was pretty fun. We used a bus, a boat, and our feet. On the bus and boat we sang “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall!” all the way down to one.

As soon as we got to camp we got divided into groups. We had to name our groups. My group was called “The Rebel Cobras”. Cool name huh? The other groups were named “The Terrible Tigers” and “The Mosquito Brigade”. Then we set up tents. In my tent there were three girls.

The first activity we did was Tyroleaning. You get strapped onto a rope and push yourself across the line. When we did it our line was across the ocean. Our second activity was Abseiling. You walk down a cliff. I went first. It was really scary. The instructors kept telling you “Lean Back, Relax, Baby steps.” Who is going to “Relax” when they are leaning into a 50 metre cliff? When you abseil sometimes you need to lower yourself down. That happened to us. If you let the rope slide really fast it felt kind of like when you slide down the metal pole at the playground. Our third activity was Rock climbing. It was fun. We climbed on volcanic rock. It really tore up your fingers. There were three courses. One was easy, one was medium, and one was hard. Each was about 35 metres. I climbed all three.

Our biggest activity was the Star Challenge. All three teams competed against each other. The Rebel Cobras got divided into groups. Every group got sent to different activities and had to do them. When you got it right you got a token. The team with the most tokens won. The Rebel Cobras got the most. So we won!!!!

On the last day we hiked up to BaggPuss. It was a mountain. The view was ok. There wasn’t really that much to see. It was still fun.

When we finally got back home everyone had a nice pee in a not-squatty-potty and fell asleep in their nice soft beds.

CAMP WAS THE MOST AWESOME THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!