Stephanie

Camp Rumbug

27th, the first day:
When we hopped into the bus we all got ready for the next 1 ½ hour drive to Rumbug.
As soon as we got there, we saw a huge rainforest, and heaps of mud.
The first activity was the fun & fitness trial. You had to hold hands with a boy, and not let go for THE WHOLE THING. – Yuck!

28th The last dinner:
Dinner was the worst part of the day. I was partnered with a St. Kevin’s guy, who’s crazy. And on top of that, the lasagna was from a packet.


That night, us 16’s -our cabin- spent the night talking and eating. We had a marshmallow kebab, choc frogs and lollies. We also played would you rather and shadow animals ‘till 1:52!

29th the last day:
It wasn’t so bad on the day we left, at least I had fun. It was the best day I’d ever had so far.

I’d do it all again, but without the mud.

By Stephanie M, 5/6 m.p

Emily H

It was the first day of camp for the Grade 5/6’s at St. Charles Borromeo on Wednesday 27th of August. As the bus left, a rush of excitement ran through my body. Halfway through the trip, the bus stopped at ‘ Koo Wee Rup.’ At Koo Wee Rup we ate our lunch and got time to play and talk to our friends. Finally we got to camp Rumbug. Everyone was so excited and started taking their bags in. My friends and I were chosen to stay in Cabin 16. Luckily our Cabin was the closest to the toilets and showers. After everyone got settled and were ready to start an activity, we went and did the Fun and Fitness Trail. The Fun and Fitness Trail was full of mud. We had to hold a boy’s hand and run through this whole hill of mud, (I had to hold Aidan and this boy from St. Kevin’s hand! YUCK...) finally we had finished it and the terrible trail had ended, although it was disgusting it was funny.

Simeon.A.

Hi, my name is Simeon and I'm here to talk to you about what I did at Camp Rumbug. Firstly we had two and a half hour drive to Camp Rumbug. I have to say the view was FANTASTIC!!!
The cabins were much better than bigger than Cave Hill Creek. We probably had about 4 spare beds left over. My favourite activity we did at camp was the night walk, adventure ropes and the environmental ropes.
On the Night Walk it was very creepy. Our guide said we might see some animals like possums and deer if we be quiet. WE also saw their tracks with our torches but unfortunately we didn't see any animals. Next was the Adventure ropes. This was my favourite. It was the muddiest course......I think! While i wore gumboots, I watched my group suffer in the mud!! I didn't fall off for the whole course! The Environmental was an amazing course.Ofcourse it was all about NOT touching the ground. It was ALL about ropes. Mr Car was going to time me but we ran out of time.
I can't wait until I go to Marcellin College because on the first week, we get to go to camp to make friends quicker.
CAMP WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jamie.T

Camp Rumbug

On Wednesday the 27th of August we left for camp. Down the track we stopped for morning tea, at a park and there was a skate park. We stayed for half an hour.

Then we took off and over the hills we went through some towns then there was a sign Camp Rumbug. “We are here!” we all said.

After we all got out of the bus we had to unloaded the luggage in the hall way, then we had to go in the rec room for instructions and our room number. Our room number was 1. We got straight into our activities, my favourite activity was the Scare Bear that was on the second day. I was 5th person to go on it. For dinner we had corn and roast and for desert we had ice-cream. That night we had a disco and we stayed up to nine o’ clock. Then we had to go to bed. We stayed most of the night and ate lollies and talked until 2:40 am. In the morning we had two activities left. After those two activities we had to go to the rec room to know where our bags had to be placed so they could be loaded onto the bus.

Then it was time to leave, I was so sad, I had really enjoyed this place. When we got back to school I ran straight to my mum and gave her a BIG HUG. After about ten minutes we left the school car park and went home.

Tiana :P

On the 27th of august 2008 grade 5/6 from st.charles and St.kevins
Went on a bus to camp Rumbug. This is my snapshot of my favourite activity, the “Scare bear”... ENJOY!

As they started to heave me up to the top of the Scare Bear I could feel my nerves come into action.

When I got to the top, I looked around and saw as far as my eyes could see, (I even thought I could see my house!) then they started to count down 3, O MY GOSH GET ME OF THIS 2, IF I DIE TELL MY BROTHER I STOLE HIS TORTCH, 1 NO!!!........ As the lady let go of the rope I could feel the breeze in my hair (at least that was for two seconds) then I thought I was going to go SPLAT on the floor! I started screaming so loud that I thought I cause the tsunami warnings. The 1st swing was the scariest. As I glided to a stop I looked up and thought to myself “wow, I did that?”

When I stepped down of the ladder I felt really proud of myself and was glad to have my two feet planted safely on the ground.

THE END

Georgia B

My first camp i'm so excited the bus trip took 2 hours but the the time passed by so quickly with all the talking. When i got of the bus i was so excited we went to the REC ROOM to get a talk to and we got told our cabin numbers mine was 16 i was with all my friends. the first activity was gross because we had to hold hands with a boy yuck!!! i had to hold hands with Desmond! but that was'nt the only thing that was gross but all the MUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!When that was finished the boys had to get the girls a drink and the girls had to get the boys something to eat and some wher along the line we one activity it was the SCARE BEAR it was so fun its like a giant swing it was so awesome.For dinner we had lamb that was ok.
2nd day.
For breakfast we had cereal and bacon and eggs and we had 8 activitys ahead we were all seperated in groups St. Kevins was there to so they were in our groups to i made so many friends there was Maddie , christina , laura , ollie and i think a couple more but i can't remember there names.There was one activity called jail break and Ollie could jump through her self she was so strong. For diner we had lasanage which was not very appealing.
that night was the concert which was funny that night we had a FEAST OF LOLLIES which was very yummy.
3rd and final day.
For breakfast we had cereal and pancakes which was very yummy. We had to activitys to do which were dry ones finally which was ENVIROMENTAL ROPES and ARCHERY after that we had to finish packing put our bags outside. Then we had lunch and we had sausages in bread after that we had left over cake and icy poles. Then they taught us CAMP RUMBUG theme song and it goes......

ANY WHERE WE GO ANY WHERE WE GO PEOPLE WANNA NO PEOPLE WANNA NO WHY WHERE MUDDY WHY WERE MUDDY AND WHY WERE WET AND WHY WHERE WET SO WE TELL THEM SO WE TELL THEM WERE FROM CAMP RUMBUG WERE FROM CAMP RUMBUG THE MIGHTY MIGHTY RUMBUG AND IF THE CAN'T HEAR US AND IF THEY CAN'T HEAR US WE SHOUT A LITTLE LOUDER SHOUT A LITTLE LOUDER (and repeat again )

Riana

Wednesday 27th of August 2008

My first camp ever and it took 2 hours to get there. As I stepped out of the bus I got so exited. The Rumbug staff told us our cabin and everyone rushed to see them, I was with all my friends I was so exited for my first activity.First we had to do a course holding a boys hand it was really gross. My first activity was the Adventure Bridge it was fun but really hard. After that we went back to our cabin and got ready for dinner, we had to link arms with a boy.For dinner we had roast lamb it was nice. Finally it was bed time my pillow was really hard,I didn't get much sleep and there was a big day ahead of us.


Thursday 28th of August 2008

Breakfast was cereal and bacon and eggs it was Yummy!! Today was 7 activity's and the Scare Bear was my 3rd. It came to my turn on the Scare Bear I was so scared, I undid my harness and was so happy I went all the way up because it was so fun.Lunch was fresh rolls just what i needed I was so exhausted. Dinner was lasagne but i had to have pasta. I felt sick that night because we had too many lollies.

Friday 29th of August 2008 time to go

I woke up with a really sore neck. Breakfast was pancakes it was somones birthday to. We did 2 activitys today I did rafting and conoeing it was fun , my partner in canoeing was Maddison and she was funny but scared. For lunch was sausages they were so good. While packing I was almost crying I had got used to the camp and my cabin but I also missed my family heaps. It was time to go!!!!!!!!!! The bus trip back was 2 hours I fell asleep but got woken up because we stopped at the park on the way. I had heaps of memory from all the photos I took. When we got out of the bus I saw my mum I was so happy I couldnt stop talking about camp for at least 1 week. It was so fun and hard but I could go back again. I cant wait until Camp Cave Hill Creek.

lara t

When I went off the bus I was so excited. I could not what to see the place .when we were inside there was a long thin hall way with the cabins on each side on each side .my number cabin was number 15.there was a kitchen and a bath room that had a lot of showers and toilets.

The next day we had to do some activities. There was a lot of mud activities .My favourite one was canoeing because it was not a mud activities.

The food was very nice except the lasagne. I loved the baken and eggs. We had that for breakfast. The camp leaders were really nice and funny.

I meet a lot of new people while

Georgia.m.

it is my turn the person before me is getting off now I am getting harnested.My emotions are going crazy i walk and step on the ladder.I am thinking about backing down but I am determined to do it she moves the ladder from under my feet and i start floating .My heart is pounding and I think i start to hyperventilate.They are pulling me up i am going right to the top.They start to count down 3 2 1 LETS GO! I drop eimedietly.I hold my breath and try not to scream.It feels like my heart has been riped out of my chest.i start screaming with happiness.I let go of the rope I am so excited I want to go on the scare bear again.!!!

Desmond

On the 17th of august year 5/6 when to camp rumbug. It was a 2hour drive. I was excited to come to camp rumbug because i could spend some time with my friends and without our parents. When we got there we had our lunch then we went to set up our sleeping bags. After that we went to our activities. My first activity was the scare bear. When we came back to the building we had our dinner then we went out to roast some marshmallows. On the second day we had 8activitys. Then we had a disco later on the night. We went to to bed at 11:30PM every night and got up 7:30am so we only got 8hours sleep every night. My favourite activity was the scare bear I didn’t want to go on but everyone in my group convinced me to do it so I got harnessed up and I went up all the way. She counted down from 3 2 1 i was going realy fast up and down on the big swing. when i got off it i felt like i was stilll swinging on it. My last activity was archery

Michael

The Scare Bear was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

When I was getting on the Scare Bear I wasn’t really scared but when I was getting raised up to the top I started to get a bit nervous.

When I had seen other people on the giant swing it didn’t look as scary but when I got on it ,it made my heart start pumping more than I thought it would.

As soon as I was up on the scare bear I could see far away. Suddenly everyone shouted 3! 2! 1!

I dropped. It was frightening the first half a second but when you started swinging it wasn’t that scary.

When I got off I wished I could do it again but unfortunately I couldn’t. (That was one of the most frightening experiences of my life).

Mikhael S

On the 17th of august grade 5/6s went to camp Rumbug it was a 2 hour drive. I was excited going to camp because it is my first school camp. When we got there we all got a list of our cabin names and we set up our beds. We all wore our dirty cloth to start our events. First event was fun fitness trial were you have to hold a girls hand and run a long course. My second one was environmental ropes were you have to do a rope course and u have a helper to try not let you fall. After that day we all woke up at 7:30 am then we got ready for our next event we had 4 of them archery scare bear abseiling and then we all went for a night walk. We all had to spot numbers hidden in the bushes. After that we all got a stick and 2 marshmallows and we all fired them. At night we all went in the wreck room and we put on casual cloth then went to do acts after that we had a choice of going to bed or staying in the disco at 10pm if finished and we all got a cup of Milo and cake then we went to sleep. Then we got up at 7:30 and we all got breakfast we had pancakes with syrup then we did the last activities. At midday we were all outside and we had hotdogs and icy poles we all gathered at this place and we all sang the camp song. Then we packed up our luggage and left it took 2 hours going back. The end

lucas

I was harnessed up and excited, highly-strung and stunned at the height of the abseiling tower. I asked the man “Has anyone fallen off the tower before?” He said no one had fallen off the tower in 20 odd years. I knew I was in good hands. I had heard people had fallen off but were ok after what happened

Before it came to abseiling we were doing another activity close by to the abseiling on the last day. For lunch we had hot dogs. Then we had left over cake and icy-poles, I had a red icy-pole. YUMMY!!

I could hear people saying to me do a little jump so I did. When I had finished I felt absolutely great I had an adrenalin rush. My turn was over I had to look and support the other people doing the abseiling. The feeling of doing abseiling was electrifying!!!

I was harnessed up and excited, highly-strung and stunned at the height of the abseiling tower. I asked the man “Has anyone fallen off the tower before?” He said no one had fallen off the tower in 20 odd years. I knew I was in good hands. I had heard people had fallen off but were ok after what happened

Before it came to abseiling we were doing another activity close by to the abseiling on the last day. For lunch we had hot dogs. Then we had left over cake and icy-poles, I had a red icy-pole. YUMMY!!

I could hear people saying to me do a little jump so I did. When I had finished I felt absolutely great I had an adrenalin rush. My turn was over I had to look and support the other people doing the abseiling. The feeling of doing abseiling was electrifying!!!

dominics camp blog

Camp Rumbug was fun for me and all my mates. It was the best fun. There was lots of mud there! When we were on the bus I saw lots of great views. The drive was tiring and boring. There was a small building where we slept and ate. In the small building’s entrance there were the toilets and shoe racks then down the corridor were our bunks and through to the big meals room hall then a games room past that. My cabin number was 9 I was with all my friends, we stayed up late. We did lots of fun activities at Rumbug like giant swings and canoeing and there was lots of mud, it was great fun. My favorite activities were the scare bear, the giant swing, and canoeing which was fun. I was canoeing with Jamie, we were playing canoeing tiggie in the canoes. We also did a fitness course holding a girls hand, yuck! It had lots of mud, I got soaked! The food was nice; we even had pancakes on the last day for breakfast. We also had lasagna my favorite! On the first night we did a night walk with our torches, we also cooked marshmallows, yummy! I met lots of new friends and met new people. I think camp Rumbug is the best ever! I can’t wait until next year!

Olivia

On the 27th of August the 5/6's went to Camp Rumbug.
As we drove up the long, dusty road to camp my emotions went crazy! I felt excited, nervous and a bit anxious. I had no idea what activities they had in store for us.
As soon as we got off the bus we were straight into activities. The first one was the 'Fun and Fitness' course. Each girl was partnered up with a boy and had to hold hands while doing obstacles. At one of the obstacles there was a sand pit, but instead of it filled with sand it was filled with.......MUD!! You had to walk through it and also crawl under planks. It was DISGUSTING!!!!!!
The food at camp was okay.
I had so much fun talking to all of my friends in our cabin at night. I don't think I've eaten so many lollies in one night EVER!!
My favourite activity was the Scare Bear. It was both the most fun thing I've ever done and the scariest. Canoeing was also fun. Emily and I went together. We both kept screaming whenever the canoe would wobble.
Camp this year was so enjoyable and unforgettable (even though I got sooooo muddy) I defianatly want to go again.

Rumbug Song

Everywhere we go, x2

People wanna know, x2

Why we're muddy, x2

Why we're wet, x2

So we tell them, x2

We're at Camp Rumbug, x1

The mighty, mighty Rumbug, x1

And if they can't hear us, x2

WE'LL SING A LITTLE LOUDER!! x1

Pauline

My Camp Experience!

I decide to go last for a reason and it didn’t end up working so well…
My heart was beating 100 miles an hour while I was waiting to be harnessed up. I was ready to face my biggest fear of all: the King of Camp Rumbug… ‘The Scare Bear’. But something interrupted me… my bladder. My whole groups was towing me halfway and I felt like I was on the top of a cliff, but I decided to be courageous and go a little bit higher, a little bit higher still… then I called, “Stop!”

I was so scared, no wonder they named it the Scare Bear! I heard the countdown 3, 2, 1! I suddenly and I felt like I was an eagle soaring through the sky. But after that feeling was gone I screamed like I never have screamed before. Just like a little girl who just woke up from the most terrifying dream ever. But I was glad my bladder problem has gone away!
One of my greatest experiences at camp was the Scare Bear, you feel like you are an eagle soaring through the sky!

craig

Day 1:
As the bus left the school for camp rumbug I felt a mixture of excitement and nervousness.

Part of the journey to rumbug was on Eastlink. We stopped to eat our play lunch at a park which had not only a playground but it had a skate park. Most of the journey was through the country side but we went through some small towns. When we got to the first sign that said camp rumbug we had to go down this twisty turnery road that just dropped off to one side at any random time, once the bus actually tilted to one side.

At the camp we unloaded the bags into the corridor and went down into the rec room were Matt called out our room groups and told us which room we were in, so we went and found our bags and put them in the our rooms. We went back into the rec room and we got put into our activity groups. Then we went down to the intersection in our activity groups and we were told to hold hands with a girl (or two) in your group and we started the fun and fitness trial!

First you had to go down to the bottom of the hill until you got to a big, slippery hill and you had to get to the top of that and then you crawl through two tunnels on your knees then you had to climb over a rope wall and cross a bridge, then holding your girls hand you ran down to the mud pit and you crawled through that on your stomach then you ran up a bigger and more slippery hill.

When we got back to the intersection we had morning tea and then we went onto our first activity. Mine was Drawbridge course, were you cross the river on nothing but 3 rafts and when you got to the other side you had to do an obstacle course.

After this we went back to the bunk rooms to have showers and change. At dinner we had to escort a girl to her seat and sit next to her for the whole time. For dinner we had roast lamb with gravy and vegetables.

Next we got ready to go on our night walk; we went down to the intersection and got split up into two groups: 1 went on the night walk and the other roasted marshmallows. I was roasting marshmallows first. They were gross. On the night walk we didn’t see any animals but we did see a spider and the tracks of animals looking for food.

When we got back we had super which was Milo with chocolate cake. The beds were comfortable, made a lot of noise when you moved around.

Kristen

On Wednesday the 27th August the year 5/6s left for camp. We stopped at a skate park to have playlunch. As we came closer to our destination the scenery changed, it looked like a rainforest and the road became narrow. Camp Rumbug was smaller than I expected. We were welcomed by one of the leaders who told us what cabin we would be in I was in room number 16. My favourite activities were canoeing and the Scare Bear where you were hoisted up 15 meters in a harness and dropped to swing to and fro. We did a fun and fitness where we had to climb up muddy hills, go through, over and under obstacles it was soooo muddy! We also did a night walk, everything looked so different. We had a variety of meals including lamb, lasagna , jelly and ice-cream, bacon and eggs, sandwiches, fruit salad, pancakes and hotdogs .There were also duties - my group did clean up duty on the first night. There was also a concert and disco. They were great. On the way home we watched Evan Almighty. If I had to put my camp experience in to one word it would be AWSOME! I can’t wait to go on camp next year.

Celeste " AT CAMP RUMBUG "

It was Wednesday and this was the day all the grade 5/6s and I go to Camp. I came to school and all i saw was my class mates and a heap of suitcases. So about 10 to 15 minutes later we started to head towards the bus with our luggage. When we finally reached the bus we said our goodbyes and went on the bus. I sat with Natalie Cottrell. It took about 3 hours to get there and in that time i was taking many photos with my camera and talking to everyone around me to pass the time. We got there at about lunchtime and the first thing we did was get a bags and put them in the hallway and go to the hall were we have meetings and stuff. The man told us what our cabin numbers were and we went there and got our bags and organised ourselves. Then we were called to go back to the hall and be put in our groups for activities, I was in group 9. The first thing we did was the fun and fitness cours were we had to hold hands with a guy vis versa. Then wee had lunch which i cant remeber what we had. Then we had dinner it was roast lamb YUMM! and veggies. By the way i had to link arms with Joel. Then we went to our cabins and then called back for midnight snack which was a piece of chocolate cake and hot chocolate. Then we went to bed but we all were talking and laughing. Evensully some of us went to sleep but me and lydia were still awake and disided to come to my bed and eat chips lollies and chocolate. So days went by and we did alot of activities like archery,scare bear, canoeing and drawbridge course, they were all fun. But then it came, the day we were leaving:( We packed all out stuff and got on the bus:( and watched EVAN AMIGHTY! WE CAME HOMe # HOURS LATEr!!! I saw my MUm And I wAs vErY HAPpPPPPY :) AND THAT WAS CAMP RUMBUG I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME IT WAS A GREat EXPERIENCE WHICH TOUGHT ME LOTS OF THINGS ABOUT MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BY CELeStEEEEExo