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Last week, on Sunday the 29th of march, 28 students from room3 [my class] TAI met at school to begin the 6 hour journey to wellington, the capital of N.Z. after a reeeealy long drive with a few stops on the way, we arrived at the top 10 holiday park in lower Hutt. After a few hours, most of us wanted to go to bed so that we could get a good night’s sleep. The next morning, we go up at 7:00 and by 8:30 we were ready to leave for the Karori wildlife sanctuary to do a program on “pests and the fence”. We learnt some really interesting things, like the fact that rats can jump about 2m! After that, we went to the surprisingly unspectacular weta cave! I thought that they would show us things that they had used in the movies and things like that but all they had was a few models and collectibles that were [I think] were overpriced. Next, we went to Te papa, where we only spent 45 minutes, but we saw things like the colossal squid, and how devastating earthquakes can be. Then, we walked to Capital E, where we made a music video with ACID 7.0, and used Sony Vegas to make the video. You can look at these by going to www.capitale.org.nz and clicking on the soundhouse, Te Awamutu intermediate, music, and then choosing one. By the time we got back, it was about 7 pm and we were all hungry and tired. The next morning, we had to get up extra early because we were going on the interislander to the south island or specifically, Picton. By 7:30 we were all on the ferry and by 9:00 we were speeding towards the south island. By the time we docked, it was lunchtime. After two hours in Picton, we boarded the ferry for another three hour trip back to Wellington and then another half-hour trip back to camp. First on day three: off to the “Cake tin” or better known as the Westpac stadium. Once we got there, we were split in two groups- one went up, and the other went down to the players rooms. I went down first, and out to look at the playing field because we were not allowed on it. Then, we went up to the top and looked out of the corporate box, down on the entire stadium. Next, we sped to St Paul’s cathedral, which is massive and the view from the top of the bell tower is breathtaking. Then, we quickly walked to parliament, where we had lunch and then entered the beehive. After a quick talk from Shane Arden, our MP, we walked around both old parliament and then into the chamber where the mps met, where our current prime minister, John Key,  gave a speech about Helen Clark, our old prime minister. After parliament, we made a dash for the cable car to take us to the bus, and then we drove to the new dowse, where we saw all kinds of new art. You can search it in Google. After the new dowse, we raced to the H20 extreme wave pool. On Thursday, we got ready for our final day in wellington. First: the national war memorial, where we saw the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the passccendale exhibition, from Belgium. After the war memorial, we drove to the wellington museum, where we did a study on the Wahine disaster. Next: the zoo. After a small presentation, we were allowed out to roam the zoo until about 3:00, when we boarded the bus once again to move to Capital E to do the ONTV, when we had to create our own T.V show. After that, we drove back to camp and packed, getting ready for the trip home. On Friday, we got ready and left the camp for the final time at 7:30 to go home.

I really enjoyed this camp because there were so many things to do that i never really had time to get bored and i enjoyed everything that we went to.

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