Stilt Walking

Hi peeps (short for people). I just got back from stilt walking. It was really fun. Most of the the time I was on short stilts because other people were using the tall ones. Near the end of the session I got to go on stilts that were one metre tall (I know it might sound not that great but trust me, compared to the little ones, they're much much harder).

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Can any room5ian please tell me their:
-favourite sport
-favourite colour
-favourite pet
-old school

Mine are:
-basketball
-black and red
-kitten or puppy/small dog
-Silverdale Normal School

Kakepuku, Diary entry, Day 4

Today when we woke up, we heard the war horn again, packed up, had breakfast (by now there is only one third of the sheep left) and headed towards the sound. After about half an hour we come to an empty pa site. Inside there are only the frames of the buildings and some kumara rotting in kumara pits. In one of the pits it looked like there had been life recently. When we got closer, we realised that there was a tunnel leading underground. Jessie went in first to check that it was possible to climb through (it was). Jessie, Alex and I go in while Oliver and Caitlin stay outside to guard our equipment. Jessie takes her torch, and I take my matches. After a while in the tunnel we come across a fallen booby trap. We crawled past and nothing happens. We crawled on and come to an opening. There are two empty boxes. Then our hopes rise when we see a wall that seems different to the others. We start to throw the boxes at it, then finally it broke and revealed another tunnel. We climbed through it, then after a little while we came across a string across our track. We burnt through it with my matches without putting tension on it, nothing happened and we moved on. We came to another clearing and found a magical staff and two boxes. Jessie opened her box and a big, hairy spider jumped out, but she smashed it with her torch. Then I opened mine and a puff of gas came out and knocked me unconscious.

Kakepuku, Diary entry, Day 3

Today everyone got up at dawn, but only about 10 minutes after we got up we heard a loud warhorn sound coming from the top of the mountain. We packed up, had some breakfast and went off in search of the sound. After a while the mountain started to get really steep, so steep that we had to start clinging to plants to climb up. Soon we came to a slight clearing and at that moment a loud plane flew over us. We shouted and waved about, trying to get it's attention, but it was of no use, the plane just flew on. Then we saw a track that looked like a short cut, but we also noticed a good clearing slightly further up the mountain. It took a few minutes to decide, but in the end we chose to climb up to the clearing. When we were there we found that it was an animal track, and we settled camp slightly off the track. Our tent was made by draping Oliver's blanket over a tree branch. In 10 minutes we were woken up by a loud rustling and grunting noise coming from outside the tent. Suddenly a wild boar came rampaging through our tent. Luckily no one got hurt, but the boar had taken off with Oliver's blanket. If you're wondering what we did, we just slept outside - it didn't rain.

Kakepuku, Diary entry, Day 2

Today Oliver and I got up early to re-make the fire (all we did was put more sticks on it and re-lit it). When the girls woke up, we cut off a piece of sheep and stuck it on the spit that we made last night (by putting a straight stick across two Y-shaped sticks). After breakfast we just hung around, making spears, we then made a barrier around our camp in case a tribe of cannibals find us. Then we went out in search for water, after about an hour we found some, it was a bit muddy but we managed to get most of the mud out. It was getting late so we headed back, had more spit-cooked sheep and went to bed.

Kakepuku, Diary entry, Day 1

Today we woke up and decided to hike around to go look for the other groups (I now know that we ended up on the other side of the island/mountain). We found a nice flat bit and settled there, the girls stayed to make a shelter while Oliver and I went out in search of food (we made spears by sharpening straight sticks to use as hunting weapons). After a while we stumbled across a sheep that had wandered up the mountain before the disaster struck. We killed it (I don't want to be too descriptive here, for obvious reasons) and brought it back to camp where the girls had finished making shelter. It was late afternoon by now so we made a lazyman fire, cooked some sheep and went to bed.