Eastern Beach

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Whoosh! One shiny, sparkling, summer, day Panmure Bridge School vanished off for a trip to Eastern Beach. We were all excited especially the  year 7’s and 8’s because we were doing the kayaking sessions.

When we got there the first thing we could see was the beach. It was bright and it looked clean and fresh. We had to get changed into our swimming togs before we could go for a swim or go kayaking. I was already changed into my togs so I just watched the first group do kayaking and they were full of energy, I could see in their eyes that they were too excited for it. I just sat there waiting for them to finish their session. As they were paddling I was thinking I couldn’t do it.

When the first  group finally finished it was the next groups turn which was my group. I was nervous, and my heart was beating quickly, thinking that I couldn't do it. When I hopped on the kayak it felt comfortable but holding the paddle was hard to use. Until then when I was paddling it was easy. Well going backwards was hard and easy. My group had to learn some lessons on kayaking first before we had to do paddling. After all the lessons we had to learn we had a game of tiggee. Phew! I never got tagged because I would paddle so fast to keep the tagger away from me. We were still playing and still no-one got tagged. Then from there the rest of the groups took turns when they had their sessions.

After that we had lunch til the end and had some play time as well. It was fun because I loved kayaking, I will never forget that because it was the first time I ever did kayaking.

Swimming Time

Swimming Time!

Yipee! It was a nice hot weather for a swim. I couldn’t wait for a swim. By the time my group and I hopped in the pool, it was freezing cold. I felt like I was trapped in the fridge.

We were shaking and trying to get warm in the pool so Mr Burton stared at us and said that we had to jump up and down so that we could get warm instead of playing around to get warm.

Finally when we all got warm we had to learn how to float on our back so that if we get tired in any pools we could just turn around and float on our back. We all had to show Ms. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Burton if we knew how to float on our backs. When it was my turn to float all I could see was the top of the swimming pool roof. By the time we all had a turn at floating on our backs we were all quite good at floating on our backs.

Then we all had to do some freestyling. The really hard thing was that we had to breath 1,2, and breathe on 3. It was a little hard when it came time to breathe. Finally we got the idea.

When we all knew how to float on our back we then had to do handstands, it was very hard because I couldn’t hold onto my breath. We challenged other people at handstands. The winners had to challenge each other and the losers had to just watch. The winner was...Maliana. She was very good at doing handstands but she wanted to challenge me but I lost.

I had a very nice fun day at the swimming pools hopefully we do some more next year.

Veisinia