This first week of camp has been very busy. It’s hard to believe that I’ve only been here a week because I already know so much about the people here. Although 7 weeks does still seem a long way to go, I know it will fly by.

The activities this week have been different to the activities you do anywhere else. At school, teachers suggest teamwork, but here you have no choice but to work together. It’s an opportunity to meet some great people and friends forever. Within the first 4 days, I feel like I had known some people forever.

I’ve developed so much as a person already and I can’t wait for the rest of it.

Karley - Diamond Valley College   

Yesterday Josh and Kelsey were student leaders.  Josh said “I enjoyed being student leader; it was nice to have a lot of power”. Kelsey said “Being student leader was a great experience as well as enjoyable”.

Yesterday everyone headed down to the beach for the afternoon because it was a very hot day here at Snowy.  Everyone packed onto buses and a few vans then headed into Marlo.  We walked down the steps to ‘The Blue Hole’ and we walked across and swam in the entrance and played a game of touch rugby on the sand in the middle. Everyone had a refreshing swim and a few played touch rugby even the teachers joined in.  It was a great afternoon and everyone had a ball.

Josh-Wonthaggi and Kelsey- Swifts Creek School

2B attended bridge building Friday, the 6th of February.  To complete what we had to do, we learnt a variety of knots and strategy’s to build our bridge. The rules included us not being able to go in the water and if you happened to fall in you had to sit out for 2 minutes. Our group had to communicate with each other and figure out what the best strategy was to build the bridge.  My team worked amazingly well throughout the whole day, even though we didn’t complete the bridge we all had an amazing day.

Jessica- Sunbury Downs SC

Hello from Marlo!

This past week has flown by so fast! It has been so exciting being able to meet all these new people and trying different activities. I’m really enjoying the food, facilities, classes and great location. It’s taken a while, but everyone is finally starting to settle in. We are also all getting along well together and form bonds with our friends as well as our expo teams.

Last week, one of the teamwork activities we worked on was bridge building. My expo group (2B) did really well, and we were all able to co-operate as a group. We learnt how to tie different knots and how to communicate as a team. We all shared our ideas and made sure that we all pitched in so we could complete the bridge on time. It got really intense towards the end as we were scrambling to get the bridge in place before we had to pack up. Even though our bridge ended up collapsing, we all were really proud of how we had all worked hard, and we were able to then reflect on what we did well, and what we can improve on next time.

Anyway, we are all having a really great time so far and we are learning so much!

Emma, Trafalgar High School