Today I'm going to talk about something called outward bound. Some of you may have heard of it but it's basically a 10 day program in which you spend 9 of those days camping in the bush without a shower, a toilet, electronics, and you get to sleep on a mat with a piece of material over your head. Most of these days are spent hiking, though I believe we do participate in different activities like climbing rope ladders (ahhh! :s) and things like that. Oh and we have only two changes of clothes and have to carry everything we bring, and there's yucky food... :(
At my school Outward Bound is a compulsory camp for the year 10's. The only way you can get out of it is with a doctors note/medical slip. We are split up into house groups and then further separated into boys and girls. We leave on March 10th (two days away!) for a 5-6 hour drive to our destination, stopping only for lunch and toilet breaks. To say I'm nervous would be an understatement. You hear many stories of this particular camp going around the senior school. The main being the fact that you will hate it while you are on it but love it once it's done. Often when a group of year 12's leaves the school, most will talk about how great outward bound was and the memories they created will never leave them so I am excited in that aspect. I've got a great group which will definitely help but I have no idea who the teacher is that's taking us, I hope she's not grumpy :p
So we leave Monday the 10th, and come back Wednesday the 19th. We get to stay home from school the next day (thank god) but then have to come to school on Friday. That day we pretty much have no classes, it's all reflection about what's happened the past 2 weeks and what we've achieved. If we don't complete this then the rest of it was pretty much worthless, so you could say it's kind of important :p
Anyways I'll write a long post about everything that happened when I get back. We're allowed to take a notebook and pen so I won't forget anything I promise. Until then, goodbye and wish me luck!
So we leave Monday the 10th, and come back Wednesday the 19th. We get to stay home from school the next day (thank god) but then have to come to school on Friday. That day we pretty much have no classes, it's all reflection about what's happened the past 2 weeks and what we've achieved. If we don't complete this then the rest of it was pretty much worthless, so you could say it's kind of important :p
Anyways I'll write a long post about everything that happened when I get back. We're allowed to take a notebook and pen so I won't forget anything I promise. Until then, goodbye and wish me luck!
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