Birthday highlight of camp

As my alarm clock sounded, I woke up excited yet nervous.

I said goodbye to my dad and brothers and then got in the car with my mum.

When I got to school, I saw all my friends and the nerves went away.

Soon after I said goodbye to my mum and then off we went.

As we got to camp, it looked like heaps of fun.

Later on, we had lunch and it was very nice.

After lunch, we went and did high ropes with our instructor Jesse.

It was about five metres in the air but I still did it even though I was scared.

Next we did flying fox.

It didn't look very scary but once I got up on the 15 metre platform the nerves started to kick in.

As I stepped off the platform, it felt like I was falling, but then I started sliding down the wire towards the tyres at the end.

At night, we had a games night.

We played Golden Child and lots of other games.

In the next few days, we managed to do canoeing, archery, low ropes, alpine rescue, rock climbing, artificial cave maze, giant swing and the scariest of them all that got me shaking like a leaf was abseiling.

My favourite thing was the giant swing and that's probably something I'll remember forever.

The highlight of camp was Thursday which was my birthday and I brought 113 meringues for everybody.

On the last night, we stayed in tents at Deeamber.

At night, we had a big camp fire and we did some acting.

The next morning we packed our bags, said our goodbyes and then we went and bought our souvenirs.

Soon after, we all got on the bus and so did the instructors to say their last goodbyes, then off we went.

When we arrived at the school, we all saw our families waiting on the path.

I thought camp was a lot of fun and a great experience for everyone including myself.

Newsletter, 30 Mar 3011 Callum Balneaves, Empire Bay Public School