Sailing

Yesterday I went to lake rua for sailing. Our transport was a bus and a van. I went in the bus and sat with mu mum, when we arrived I got my bag and we walked to the container with the people running the program. When we got to the container we put our bags down and we had to listen to the people, they split us into groups and then the people showed us how to make the dhingy. When they showed us we had to get our own boat out of the container and put up the sail and turny thing. It was pretty easy to make because my mum helped me and I had 2 other people in my group. When we finished the sailboats we had morning tea and then got changed into our togs. When we all got changed we helped put boats in the water and we got taught how to actually sail and turn the boat. It took a while but then we went down to where the boats were and we all had turns going in the sail boats. We had to go around a buoy not that far from the surface and then turn around and come back. It was pretty cool and funny because there were a lot of people capsizing. When everyone had a turn we went back to the containers and had our lunch. When we finished lunch we got more boats in the water and had to go further out to the buoys and had more turns. It was really fun but time went fast. Our teacher blew a whistle and we had to get all the boats out the water, get the sails off, make them neat and put all of the stuff back in the container. After everyone put the sails down and put the boats and sails in the container We got to go swimming. We couldn't go swimming for long but it was cool. After about 10 - 14 minutes we got out and got changed into our clothes. It took a long time because some people were mucking around in the changing rooms. After about 25 minutes we walked to the footpath and waited for the bus and then went back to school.

this is the boat we used (optimist boat/ dhingy)