Room1's trip to extreme edge

On Friday 20th of May 2011 room1 went on a "Farewell Mrs Wiersma" trip to Extreme Edge indoor rock climbing in Panmure. We had also planned a shared lunch for the day as well. Our adults that were helping us were Mrs Wiersma(our Beautiful Teacher) Whea Donna (Our wonderful reliver) her husband Mr Cowley and Matua Jo (Our Bus Driver).

We left school around 9. When we got there i got so scared and tired but i still had no choice. Everyone was pushing and rushing to get outside. Finally we were sitting inside the building. 2 staff members walked into the entrance and introduced themselves.

After introducing themselves they started to explain how rock climbing goes and how to wear the harness. First they gave each of us harnesses and then they got Hope up and they used her as their model for How to put a harness on. When we wore the harnesses we got wedges.

We were split into 2 groups because there were so many of us. I was in team 1. Team 1 went on a blue and yellow wall and team 2 went on another one.

We had 2 models from the class to do a demonstration for the class. For our team Izach was one because he had been to Extreme Edge. For the other group Jasmine was one too.

Izach showed us how to climb up and how to get down. They only told Izach to go halfway because otherwise it will take long.

We had to go on the automatic rope ones because the helpers weren’t ready to help us on the otherwall where you needed a person below to help you climb.

After the demonstration we all got a chance to climb on all the automatic walls. Dylan went on the wall that our group had went on. The first automatic wall i had climbed was the kites one with tress and sheeps.  I reached the top. Mrs Wiersma also told me to stay up there because she wanted to take a picture of me.

Then  i went to climb on the solar system wall. It was so cool Whea Donna mentioned to me while climbing that when i go past the planets i have to say the name because the planets is kind of our topic in class.

After the solar system wall i went on the Gorillawith the helicopter on top. I was having a race with Horiana and she lost but then i said nice try to her.

Then I went to the other walls. The first wall i went on was the nice and easy one because it was a practice. That wall had a picture of a house and a swan lake as well.

Next i went on the harder ones because i wanted to try one. I was having so much fun on the big walls. Most of the time Mr Cowley helped me climb and sometimes Whea Donna.

I didn’thave a turn with Mrs Wiersma because she was firstly letting the others go first because she wanted everybody to have a turn on the big walls.  I climbed heaps of them and some were very difficult to climb.

Then Mrs Wiersma asked me if i could help with the shared lunch because no one had helped. I went into the bus and quickly gave the boxes to Matua Jo and Mrs Wiersma. I held a very light one with heaps of chips in it.

We took the boxs to the top and we planned to sit down there and eat.

There were so many yummy food on the table i couldn't decide what to eat first.

I had brought some chicken sandwiches and LOL drinks for my friends and Mrs Wiersma.

In 2 Seconds my Chicken Sandwiches were gone and i only got to have 1. Mrs Wiersma's Afghans where very tasty :) :).

After eating Mrs Wiersma told the class to sit down for 10 minutes and wait till the food was digested properly.

The Boys where out first to go and start climbing because they had only eaten a little bit.

After we went back to climbing Me, Mrs Wiersma and Hope had taken a picture of us sleeping on those comfy things.

We only had 1 hour to go back to school because we were supposed to go at 2:00pm. Everyone was so excited and they didn't want to leave.

2:00pm everybody was sad because we were going. We went back to the front and took of our harnesses and put them in 1 nice neat pile.

Jasmine and Bella said thankyou on behalf of room1. We went into the bus and drove back to school.

2:30pm we got back to school and everyone was so tired well not everyone some of us.