Our Camp 2013 - Day 1

Hip! Hip! Snore. 5am is the wake up call for our Year 7’s today, the first day of camp. Today called for an early start because we had to be at the East Perth train station (a 15 min drive but add about 20 minutes for traffic from Wattle Grove) by 6:30 Monday morning. Why? Because our teachers needed to account for us and we also needed to board the train for a 7:00am departure on the Prospector. After about 7 long hours of the interesting scene of … Trees! (with a few salt lakes along the way), we arrived at our destination of, well, Kalgoorlie of course. It was pretty hot, compared to the air-conditioned train we were in. We had 2 large buses and 1 small bus, in which we had to but all of our luggage into to. I must say, 'go room 10" for being the first to have all our luggage in our bus, out of all three classes. Then after having to wait along time in a hot bus for the other 2 classes to be ready, we set off on a short drive to the Goldfields Camp School. When we arrived at the camp school, we had a quick brief about the history of the school and the rules of the school and then we went off to our dorms to unpack. There were 2 dorms for boys and 2 dorms for girls. The dorm names are C.Y O’Connor, Flanagan and Shea, Bailey and Ford and Paddy Hannon. I was in C.Y O’Connor with the rest of the girls for room 10 along with Codi from room 15. At about 3:00 that afternoon, we went back in to our buses to go out to the Superpit look out. We got to the lookout and EVERYONE! was gobsmacked at the size of the Superpit it was GINORMOUS! Infact it is 3.5km long, 1.5km wide and 570m deep. We had some pictures on some of the mines truck tyres and on the bucket of a loader from the mine and both objects were pretty big too. Then we went back to camp to talk, play and run around until some of us had to go set up for the lovely dinners we were being provided with. We all had a delicious dinner, followed by a scrumptious dessert, which was then followed by the hilarious movie “Despicable Me 2”. Finally after one long day, we got to get ready for bed and then go to sleep. By Taylor and Merenia