El Rancho Trip

On Tuesday the 10th of September, Half of the year 7&8 department of Otaki College went to the El Rancho Camp in Waikanae.   My class and 2 others came.  And the others went the next day.  On the day we were put into groups and had three set activities.  My groups activities were - Soft Archery,  Go-Karts and Rock Climbing.

Rock Climbing
Our first activity was rock climbing.  Being the person I am,  I of course go for the hardest and biggest one there is.  This one had a electric rope so you could just jump off when you wanted.  And the others were easy ( for me ).  There was a rock wall in the corner of the room and it went from one layer and then you went out and up.  That one was tricky.  And for one of the easier ones I did it blind folded.

Soft Archery
For our second activity we did soft archery.  We got to shoot each other in this one.  The instructor taught us how to aim and shoot the arrows and let us to choose our teams.  I went against my friends and got hit about 15 times.  The instructor didn't teach us how to keep the arrow from going off of the aiming frame.   We kept hitting each other in the face and it started to hurt. We finally ended with a fair game but my team lost. 

Go-Karts. 
Our final activity was Go-Karts.  This wasn't what I thought it would be because I thought they were going to go a little faster than what they did.  We took turns in the Go-Karts and had 3 laps each.  We got timed and the Results were in>  Lauren came 1st in the side-by-side with 40 seconds. I came second in the Go-Kart with 41 seconds and Lachie came 3rd in the Go-Kart with 42 seconds.

El Rancho was fun and those were my Highlights. 

Discovery

This is my slideshow of 10 interesting facts about Captain Cook and Tupaia ( Tuia 250 )
We have been doing activities about what they did.  I hope you Enjoy.