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CHILDREN’S
TAG CAMP 2000 IN CASTLETON |
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The Peak
District - Mam Tor |
Sunday 6th Today
we all arrived in time to be shown where we were sleeping before we
did Archery. I am sharing a room with Amanda. Our room is quite nice
and looks onto the gamesroom. |
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'We
are staying at a place called the Hollowford Centre and catering for ourselves.' |
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After we had
settled in a bit we went and did Archery, which was at the Centre so
we didn’t have to go anywhere on the minibuses.
The Archery was
great and I got most of my arrows on the target. When we had eaten
our evening meal we went for a walk round the village, which was good
but tiring. |
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 Monday
7th We
went sailing all day today at a place called Rother Valley. I
watched them for two sessions and then some of us did orienteering.
When I went orienteering I seemed to spend a lot of time going
backwards and forwards. |
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'Today
was also Daniel’s birthday so he got chucked in at least once.' |
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 This
evening we did a trail round the village using pictures and trying
to find out where they had been taken from. We had to do this in two
groups, the groups were all the boys against all the girls. We
didn’t find out who won though.
 Tuesday
8th Today
we went rockclimbing all day. I really enjoyed doing it and it was
the quickest climb I had ever done.
After a while
it started to rain quite hard and then it went torrential. So they
got some sort of covers out for us. But Amanda was sitting on the
grass infront of a rock when it was raining, so she stopped the
rainwater from going any further and made a puddle around herself. |
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We had our
lunch sitting at the top when everyone was up there, then we went
back down by abseiling.
We went back to
the centre early today so that we could get ready to go bowling, the
bowling was great fun.
When we had
finished the game of bowling we went to a place called Bitz and Pizza
for meal, I had Lasagne and it was very good. I think I came second
to last in the bowling. |
 Wednesday
9th We
were split into two groups the boys and the girls for today as there
were two activities. The activities were caving and canoeing. The
boys did canoeing while we were caving, then we swapped over at lunchtime.
Caving was
brilliant, but I didn’t go as far as the others. When we got to
a reasonably wide bit we stopped and turned off the lights on our
helmets. It was at this point I turned and started going back. On the
way back we met a couple of others from the group that needed lifting
down the cave.
When it was
time for lunch we went to a carpark close by where we met the others
and then went to a place called Tod Brook, which was where we went
canoeing. I watched the rest of the group canoe, as I don’t
enjoy water sports. It was still fun though. When we got back to the
centre those that had wet things went to the drying room. We then had
some time to ourselves to relax and chat before we went outside for
the BBQ, which was really good. We had chicken drummers, burgers, hot
dogs and jacket potatoes, followed by baked bananas with chocolate
and marshmallows.
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'We
had room inspection tonight, which was done by Mick, Mike and Vinney.
It
was really funny.' |
Tonight
I stayed up along with Gina, Daniel and the rest of the staff. I
finally went to bed at 2:10am!! It was a good laugh though.
 Thursday
10th Well
it’s the last day today and we are going abseiling for the
morning. We will be abseiling down a 65 foot viaduct. So in actual
fact we will only be going down bricks for half of it as the rest of
it is sort of free fall.
We are doing
this as one group as it is the only activity left. When we got to the
bridge we were all kitted up with harnesses and helmets, which were
very uncomfy. I went down once and the worst bit was going over the
top and leaning back. Some of the others went down twice.
We then had to
go back to the centre for 2 pm, as that was when we were being picked up.
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'The
end of the camp was quite sad as we were saying good bye.' |
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