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__Monday 28 March 2011__ TIS 30 18th Avenue Tauranga

Dear Mr Aandewiel

Thank you for coming on the Amazing Race on Friday, you really helped a lot. You were quite fast in the car but you did not go over the speed limit and you got us to plactures fast so we could do our task quick. I liked it when you would drop us off at the place and then go and find a park, so when we were ready to go you had all ready started the engine on the car.

I think it was so kind of you when we had to get one of the clues like filleting the fish, and you did not even park the car all you did was turn the car around so we could get out with out having to back out of the car park turn around and then go out of the drive way. One thing that I thought was so relieving was that you knew where most of the placers were on the Amazing Race I thought that was really cool.

I thought is was so nice of you when you helped us look for those pictures at the boat wharf. If it wasn’t for you we would of had no idea where they were ad we would not have left in time and be waiting at the diving center to put on the gear.

Yours Sincerely from Victoria RM 41

Camp 2011 __Wednesday 8 March__

Monday

When I first got the first camp letter I was scared it was going to be like last year but when the day came it turned out to be one of the best weeks of my life, Like doing the hi posts walk I thought that is was to hi up but when I got up there it didn’t turn out to be what I thought it was going to be like at all it was better, it was still hi up of corse but I made it across and I loved it.

Another thing we did on that day was abyssal down the rock wall, I was also scared of doing that as well. Then I started to think that this was all going to be ok as well but it wasn’t. It was my turn to go and abyssal down and when I about half way up I just stopped and froze I could not move so I had it come down. I didn’t do it but I don’t regret it.

Later that night the boys did their cook out, they had nice food and sleeped on a lovely cuffy bead, and what did the girls have to do sleep all night out in the bush under our own hand made biverwacks with pigs and possums runing a round and having to eat mince and rice, but I had a good sleep any way.

Tuesday

On Tuesday when all of the girls came back from the bush and we all had breakfast all of us went and did a bug study in the river bead, so we all got put in three groups of six whyill one group looked for bugs in the river and another did how fast the current was going my group had to see how clear the water was, it wasn’t that clear but it was clear enough to see sixty cm in the water and we just rotated around activities.

Next my group had to look for bugs in the river, using a paint brush to brush the bugs of rocks and a sift to put the bugs in. I didn’t find much but I found about two. After all of the group have found their bugs we all had to put them in a container, and each had to grab a little sucking mushine and suck each of the bugs

Wednesday

On Wednesday my group started of the activities with the hi rope beam, the vertical playground and the center pied. We got to choose what one we got to do first and I choose the center pied, I quickly put my hand up to go first, so I got my harness on and started to climb up, I got half way there and my shoe fell off but I kept on going and I mad it to the top, so I lead back and they gently lowed me down. I thought that was so fun so I said can I do that again and I mad it to the top again.

Then after that I went to the beam. I wan’t to go first but someone put their hand up before me. After about ten min it was my turn to go up, my harness was on and I started to climb up the ladder and up the poll. I came to the beam and started to walk across. At first I was a bit shaky but I carried on trying not to look down.

Thursday

When it was Thursday, my group started the morning activities with mountain biking up hills and over rocks.

After we all eat, it was time for my group to go and do some raft making. Raft making is where you make you own floating raft with some bamboo and some rubber rafts, and race your appointee down a river. Its a bloody task racing down a river hitting your legs on rocks but you got to do it.

So fare camp was going well and I done all of the things that I was scared of doing like the hi ropes the beam and the vertical play ground, and I was so existed of what was coming up next, it was skit night and the teach did a wild one we all leafed but after that there was a big cricket swam and all of the girls and the boys went nuts, so I thought that if I went into my bunk room that I would be safe and away from all crickets well I wasn’t there was about ten in the girls room. We were all scared but after a while we all got to sleep with some sweat sounds to lisin to.

Friday

On Friday there wasn’t many things to do, so the teachers just said why don’t we have a big race on land and in the water. There were heaps of things to do like the food challenge and swimming racing but I picked wheelbarrow racing up a hill, where a person had to be the wheelbarrow and someone had to hold their legs.

The time came for us to going home, but going home was one of the most life changing moments I have ever felt. As me and some others were driving down the drive way, a massive full grown tree just fell right on top of the car right on top of us and all I could hear was me and the others screaming to get out of the car and get help. After about ten min we were back on the road still shaky but we made it to school, and when the car stopped I jumped out a hugged the ground just waiting fore Mum to come so I can tell her this amazing story.

Rimu Team 30 18th Avenue TIS

Monday 7 March 2011

Dear Mrs Craven

I would like to thank you for coming to camp for the whole week and helping with all of the activities and cheering me on with some of them. On the nights that you helped with the food it was great, it was some of the best food I have ever tasted at camp before. I hope you cook like that again when Morgan goes to camp at collage.

Now I would like to thank you for staying out with us when we were in the bush, because you made me know that if we were in trouble there would be a parent there to help us if needed, so well done for doing that.

I would also like to congratulate you for sorting out the people who were mean to me with crickets, and telling the girls to go to sleep when others needed to. I ended up having a weeks good sleep.

One thing I would love to congratulate you and your car for is saving mine and others lives from when that tree fell on us. That was one of the scariest moments of my life, but thanks to you and your car we all got out alive and well.

rm 41 Love Victoria Goodwin

Rimu Team 30 18th Avenue TIS

Monday 7 March 2011

Dear Dad

I would like to thank you for coming to camp on Wednesday and helping with the raft making. I hope you come again when I go to camp at collage.

Now I would like to thank you for helping me cope well with my group, and I have to say it worked because my group won in raft making and it’s all thanks to you.

I would also like to congratulate you for coming to camp because that showed me that you took time off work to come and see me and I loved having you there with me.

rm 41 Love Victoria Goodwin

__Monday 28 March 2011__ TIS 30 18th Avenue Tauranga

Dear the Blo Kart Center

I would like to thank you for letting us go on some of the karts, and when that kart stopped working and we all started shouting you were the one who sorted us out and made us wait patiently until is was our turn to go.

The one thing that I did not like that much was eating the kiwi fruit including the skin. I mean I like kiwi fruit but eating the whole thing it was tasty but also sour.

Thank you so much for your time to help out with our Amazing Race we really appreciate it since there was such a big group of people.

From Victoria rm 41