Year 10 Camp Blog 2019

By Sam Murphy

An experience everyone should remember; year 10 camp of 2019. I remember Blake house being first – the trial and guinea pig group. The two nights consisted of challenges and activities within our designated groups with senior supervisors/leaders. The first night was the best (in my opinion), we had to assign each person in our group a task to do when the challenge came around: eating a raw onion, swallowing a raw egg, finding m&ms covered in a plate of whipped cream with only your mouth, and passing kitchen tools down a line without using your hands. After these were completed with a lot of yelling and cheering, the senior leaders broke off and everyone got ready to play spotlight. Each student was worth a certain amount of points, and the teachers were the jackpot. However, Mr. Cooper was the golden nugget; worth a whooping 150 points, teams went to seek out and search. (We barely had a bed time or alarms!) The days were spent in our groups doing treasure hunts and learning about the area around us – finding statues and monuments. After lunch breaks, mass games were planned out like capture the flag – played in and around hills and bush, cricket was set up which gained wonderful entertainment purposes. We got to explore all the bodies of water that were stocked with fancy rocks and had to trek up massive stairs every time (it was a pain, really). Groups had to go through the practical camping exercises too; putting up tents, cooking meals and washing dishes etc. My favorite part was probably the BIG tramp we did – when I tell you there were so many hills, I mean there were LOADS. It was a lovely reward getting to go for a swim in the lake afterwards – everyone went full relax mode. Blake house got the peak of weather condition; bright, hot sunny days that gave most kids sunburn, the epidemy of Kiwi camps. All around, year 10 camp will be one of my favourite high school memories.