Percentages in everyday use

Sea kayaking lake brunner

On Wednesday the sea kayakers embarked to Mitchells. When we arrived we had to pack the kayaks, (which was a real hassle as we had do pack them in the rain). Halfway through packing, the rain stops but shortly after it starts back up again. When it was time to take the kayaks down to the water most of us picked up a double kayak and it was still heavy. After all the kayaks were at the lake edge my arms felt like jelly. When we chose our kayaks I got a double kayak. I was in the front so I did not get to use the pedals that control the rudder which wad a bummer. When we launched the kayaks it took some time to co-operate with the person in the back seat. After 10 minutes we finally were able to communicate with each other properly, when we arrived at bain bay we unpack the kayaks and set up our tents. The boy's tent was so dirty the floor was wet and muddy and our stuff was everywhere. but we worried about that later. The next day we packed our things and left. It was raining quite hard but that did not put anyone off or did it bother anyone which was awesome. ThIs trip was tiring, wet, and very very fun

   Thanks to the TTP for making this trip possible

Abseiling and rock climbing

On Thursday, the group doing sea kayaking went to Charleston to do abseiling and rock climbing... I woke up with adrenaline and nervousness pumping through my veins. After the bell rang the polytech instructors came into the class to get us, they took us outside to introduce their selfs. we then embarked on our journey to Charleston. about an hour later we arrive. It was time to get the harnesses on, to be honest I hate getting things ike that on as it can be flimsy and hard to use. Once we got our harnesses some of us got given a bag of ropes to carry up the track, I was one of the chosen ones, five minutes up the track my shoulder and neck started to ache but I told myslef it was temporary pain. When we arrived at the lunch spot I looked at the cliff we will be abseiling down.


 I think to myself am I going to beable to do that. We got instructions on how to use our equipment, we then walked down a muddy track into a slipprey cave my shoes got absolutly!!! coverd in mud. at the bottom of the cave there was some blowholes and luckily the tide was high. later that day some of us did climbimg or absiling I was do absiling after the practice abseil it was time to do the real thing. and trust me my heart was racing, when it was my go I clip into the saftey rope. I then clip into the abseil rope I slowly walk back to the edge.


 I take a look down and say " I can,t do this but instructor convinced me to go over the edge. after 5 times of trying to do it I just could not do it. I uncliped from the rope and walked down the hill to grab some lunch, I then had go to the climbing. I managed to get a little bit up the rock face. I then had to do a small abseil down, the instructor that convince me to go over the edge. told me he would do it with me I went to the cliff and clipped in. I got to the edge but the same thing happend. This challenge pushed me out of my comfort zone a little bit to sum it all up yesterday was really fun.

We are having another debate

 Next week on Tuesday we are having another debate. The topic is:  should zoos close: should wild animals be in the wild, at first I thought that they should be closed but no I realize that they don,t need to be closed, as zoos have programs that try and help save many of the endangered species. As I said in my other debate post I sometimes have a hard time trying to find scholarly information. I also need to get way more information than last time.  

Yesterday's debate

Yesterday we had a debate, on the NZ education system is broken. It did not go as planned though as I did not get the amount of info I wanted which was a bit of a let down. Next debate I need to get way more info be strong.

(sorry for short post)