Day 1
On Monday the 12th of May, around two hundred children from T.A.I set off to Totara Springs band and music camp. We got on the bus at nine o’clock and headed off towards Matamata. I knew I was going to get carsick ten minutes into the drive because someone opened their lunchbox to get something to eat, but whatever it was it smelt foul! I’d also forgotten to take a carsick pill. I was just about to vomit all over the place and then we arrived…
Day 1
Oh-my-gosh today was such a busy day, where do I begin? I’ll start with the dorms. There was sooo much confusion with them. First off we got told to go into cabin 1D, so me and my friends started unpacking our stuff. I was just about to take out my sleeping bag when another bunch of girls came in and said we were in the wrong cabin. Apparently we were meant to be in 1B. So we packed up all our stuff again and went to 1B. Then after ten minutes the girls who had told us they were actually meant to be in 1D said we were moving back. I was getting seriously peeved by this time but didn’t complain as the girls were bigger then me! After a long half hour our music teacher said we were meant to be in 2E all along!!We all settled into our cabins we had to go and have a choir practise in the chaple. It was absolutely exhausting and I had a sore throat.
Day 2
This morning I woke up to the yells and shouts of girls using the showers. I looked at my friends watch it was HALF PAST FIVE IN THE MORNING!! I couldn’t't get back to sleep after that so I lay awake in bed till 8:oo when I was forced to get up. It was absolutely freezing outside and I had to wait in the breakfast queue for ages. It was such a relief to step inside the eating area. After a good breakfast we set off to the chapel again for an hour and a half. Our music teacher got really grumpy halfway through the practise and said our singing wasn’t good enough and we have to try harder because we were preforming tonight. So everyone started being on their best behaviour cause they didn’t want to be humiliated in front of everyone.
The night of the concert went well I thought but I think the choir could have sung a bit louder and clearer. The band did really well though. Just before the concert started the fire alarm went off and everyone started getting scared and saying they could smell smoke even though almost everyone knew it was false alarm.
Day 3
I was so tired this morning, I didn’t get much sleep last night and anyway we went to bed at 11:15 and woke up at 6:45. Before we left Totara Springs we had lots of jobs to do, such as: cleaning the toilets, (hey someones got to do it!) clearing belongings, tiding the rooms, sweeping the kitchen, loading the buses and many, many more! After all that we got to do the activities! including: archery,three wire bridge, shooting and the hidroslide. The hidroslide was the best activity it had lots of dips and turns. You went really slowly at first and you think its going to be really boring, but then you get to a dip and as you go down you get that swirly feeling in your stomache. It was the best!
On the way home I tried to get to sleep because I had the Litracy Quiz in the evening. But if you want to find out what happened there. Well… thats another story
