By Amy F. S4

On the Friday, we left our school for Salir at about 4:30. When we got there we had to wait a while for Porsches school because they were late, but that wasn’t a problem, we amused ourselves talking, drinking coffee & singing! When Porsches arrived, we followed a Landrover up a hill, it was a very muddy path & quite scary as we couldn’t see much! But, it was fun!

At the campsite, we set up our tents in a huge circle around the campfire. My friend & I put our tent up quickly, then watched the others with amusement. It’s hard to put a tent up in the dark; some even managed to put theirs up the wrong way round! Well, after the tents were up, we tried to make dinner… I didn’t succeed, I had to get rid of mine, it went so wrong! I couldn’t tell if it was undercooked or overcooked, it just looked so awful I got rid of it! After “dinner” we stood around the fire for a while singing old songs with the main supervisors, which was fun, but we soon went to bed, we were too worn out. It was freezing at night & it was a relief to get up early as we could warm up in the sunshine!

So, on Saturday we went on the orienteering course. We were given a map & we followed signs. Our team got terribly lost! We arrived at the camp 3 or 4 hours later after ending up walking back to the village we had arrived at the night before, & staggering up the hill! Previously, we had been walking by some kind of factory & then ended up on a motorway… But thankfully, we arrived back at the camp! Eventually! We were very proud to have found our way in the end though! So, then we went & collapsed in our tents for a while then made our dinner. That night, being our last, a few of us stayed up late sitting around the campfire talking.

The next morning we put down our tents, packed up & the few who didn’t rock climb drove down to Salir in a Range Rover. It was the bumpiest ride ever; we were screaming & laughing the whole way! At the café in Salir, we waited for our parents to pick us up. After a fun, yet extremely tiring weekend, I think we were all pretty relieved to go home to a nice warm bath & our beds!

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