Our Camp 2013 - Day 2

Today the wake up call was 7am, slightly better than the day before, it was this early because breakfast was at 7:30am, but the lucky people who had to set up breakfast had only 15 minutes to get ready. After Breakfast, we had a quick talk about what we were doing today. When that was over, we loaded onto our buses and off to our days activity. This included, a walk up the hollow and historical Hannon street, with a tour guide giving us plenty of historical notes and facts about the many different bulidings that are over 100 years old. On our way up to the Kalgoorlie WA Museum, we stopped briefly for morning tea (or recess), then we headed into the museum to learn about gold and how the Kalgoorlie pioneers lived in the 20th century. Then we bused back to the camp for lunch and got ready for our next exciting activity that would be taking place that day. This activity is a KCGM (Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines) tour. The tour involves learning about the expenses of running a mine like the costs of the truck, which is around $4 million for a dump truck and $42 000 for just one simple tire for the trucks, and going into a lookout in the mine so we can see what it is like for the miners. The group that wasn’t in the mine went up to the Superpit gift shop and had a look in one of the mines dump trucks and watched a short movie about the blasts that happen in the mines around 3 times a week. Whilst we were at the mine, we found out that there was going to be some blasting taking place later on that day. So, after a short break at camp and a chance to get out of our long pants and jumper that we had to wear in the mine, we went back up to the Superpit for the blasting that was meant to take place that day at 4pm. A lot of us took video’s of the two blasts that took place, others just watched it. Subsequent to that even,t we had dinner and met back in the dining hall for a quiz night, it was all pretty much general knowledge along with a few rounds of knowledge about Kalgoorlie, which we have been studying in class. As well as music rounds, which is obviously all about different music artists and classic/modern songs. Once that was over and the winning team was announced, everyone got ready for bed and eventually went to bed with about an hour free time before that, which a lot of us spent talking, singing, playing and having lots of fun in our dorms. When finally at about 9:45pm the teachers called lights out so we all had to sleep. Although, some people had different ideas and decided to keep on talking which kept us all up for a while longer. Than eventually we all got some sleep. By Taylor and Merenia