Summer Term 2008

2s to Rua Fiola
22 - 29 June

On 28th June everyone came back from their survival. I had spent the night with Louisa Sofia Flossie and Isabella. We had spent the night in a Pigloo. In the morning we walked back to the house to enjoy lots of very nice pancakes. We sorted ourselves out then had our second session of kayaking. We played lots of really fun games and lots of people capsized! Then we all had a lot of fun on the canoe slide. After we got back to the house we set of up the hill to go on the Eagle Swoop, which is a zip wire going into a massive mud pit. Everyone got extremely muddy and we all had a lot of fun. We went back down to the house to have showers. Then we did as much packing as possible. After a very good tea we had tuck shop and a talent show which was very funny. To finish off the day we were told a really scary true story of the Mad Woman of Lunga. We all were extremely spooked and could barely get to sleep! Everyone had a fabulous time so thank you very much to Mr Mason, Miss Ilieva who took us but also thank you to Mr Taylor and Mr Schreiber who flew up to Glasgow airport to take us back to Ashdown.
Heloise Kleinwort

 
 

We stayed for a week in a timber cabin, on the shore of a Private Island, on a 700-acre Scottish Highland Estate. We left from Gatwick after much difficulty, we succeeded .We left on the 22nd June & returned on 29th then we did all theses things. We swung like a monkey on our high ropes challenges. Explored and beach comb along storm-swept seashores and among rippling rock pools.

Tiptoe fearfully into cool spooky dripping prehistoric caves.  Canoe like an Eskimo round peaceful sheltered lagoons, or out on the rolling Atlantic Ocean. Roar and bounce across the High Seas on the boats, one was called Golden Eye and the other boat Puffin. We fished for fascinating sea-creatures like mackerel and saith lobsters, langoustines and octopus.

We learnt how to live off the land and how to survive a shipwreck, like Robinson Crusoe. We built ourselves dens on an uninhabited island, and stayed the night in it. We did magnificent Rock Climbs - my self,Harry & Pablo - and went down Abseil Cliffs, with instructors. Scramble like a mountain goat to wild island summits, where buzzards swoop and eagles soar. . . .  . . . We did all these activities and quite a lot more too. And thanks to Mr Mason & Mrs Illive for making it possible
Jack Milligan

   

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