Day: June 13, 2022

Last week all the P5-7s went to spend three days at Galloway Activity Center (GAC) for their residential. We had to camp. for two nights. I guess it was a little fun but we had to share a tent with two other people, unless you were me i only had to share with one other person : )

On the first day it was all land sports/ activities

There was Archery and Laser tag. We all got split into two groups so there wasn’t too many people doing one thing at once. My group started at Archery, It was very strait forwards. We got split into even smaller teams for Archery. Our instructor the told us how to be safe with the bow and how to stand with it. He then said we needed arm protectors just in case the string came back and hit you on the arm (The arm protectors were old wet-suit arms…. He said he liked to recycle)! Once we were finished we then swapped and went onto doing Laser tag! All of us got split into two teams again… We followed one of the staff members into one of the rooms where you get equipped with your head band and Laser gun. >:D We then got leaded to our sides  and then waited for the count down for when to start. I didn’t mention this but you have ten lives and you can only do head shots to get people out!

  On the second day it was water sports

I cant fully remember what we did on the second day but I do know that we did paddle boarding! We were lead down to the water where all the paddle boards were. Then did some warm ups, got told the safety rules, how to paddle it, how to sit and then we got a partner. I am not keen on the water even though we had life jackets on…. my partner didn’t care about the water….. they constantly kept shaking the board. I did have a good time though. I would recommend going paddle boarding! 😀

On the last day we did a mix of sports/ activities ( I’m getting mixed up with the days)

We got split into groups again and I started the day with the water slide! It was amazing! We all had to get into the wet-suits again but I was having to much fun I didn’t mind them. Then it was rock climbing, I very much enjoy rock climbing I have had a lot of experience with it! Then we did the best thing THE 3G SWING! >:D…. I think most people enjoyed it except maybe a few people. The basic idea is there is a big swing like contraption. You are held onto a metal bar by a harness…. suspended in the air just by this thick metal clip and ring. you are then lifted in the air really high… and then you are let go so you swing in the air! After that we did dragon boat racing which was not fun what so ever, mostly because we were competing against another school but anyways… Trying to get your team in time with each other is HARD!

To sum everything up I had a lot of fun and it sucks it was my first and last residential here at holywood… Well here is some photos that people took while we were away:

This blog is about Residential. Last week we had residential for 3 days Monday morning we went to Galloway activity centre with P5-7. we started there with setting everything up our tents and put our stuff inside, the staff gave us a tour and 30 minutes later we started with our first activities.  They started with dividing the big group in two smaller groups the first group started with archery and the other started with laser tag after a while we switched around.

Archery is harder than it looks you have to put the arrow on in a position, you have to give the arrow power in a different position and you have to aim properly. But I did pretty well shot next to the bullseye :D.

Laser Tag wasn’t that difficult you had a gun with a scope and you had 2 teams and just try to shoot the other team. (it was fun)

DAY 2  (Water activities, Climbing wall, giant swing)

After a cold night we started with the water activities we had to wear a wet suit and a life jacket. The group that started with laser tag on day one had land activities in the morning and water in the afternoon. The group that started with archery had water in the morning and land in the afternoon.

They divided the groups in two again so 50% of the people that had to do water activities in the morning started with paddle boarding (me as well) and the other 50% started with the giant slide.

Paddle boarding : Around 10 in the morning and after some explanation we we’re getting the boards. We had to make partners but there was no one left so I had a board for myself 🙂 . We had to walk into the water till our knees and jump on the board and stay on our knees with our paddle in our hand. We we’re ready to start and weeeee. I controlled the board pretty fast after a small 10 minutes we we’re allowed to go further on the log. When we we’re at the middle of the log we we’re allowed to stand up I and that was the more difficult part but if you’re up its pretty easy to stay up. After a while we went to a wooden platform in the middle of the log (where me and Bailey jumped in the water) And after a small 10 minutes at the platform we went back to land.

Water slide : After much fun with the paddle boards we went to the giant water slide. They we’re putting water and soap on the slide (and on people) . And yeah it was just having fun and slide and do races.

Land activities on Day 2

With the land activities everyone that started with archery on day 1 was together again we started with the climbing wall. It was a wall with stones and you had to climb to the top and press the button I clicked one of them.

After the climbing wall we went to the giant swing !!!! I was going with my little and Kohdie we we’re going on the highest with a surprise but he started counting from 3 to 1 and I thought this ain’t a surprise ! But he did this -> 3….. And we went it was pretty fast !

In the evening we started with pink tail there we’re a few hunters and they had top chase the people with a pink tail (a pink tissue) and took the tail of them when you tail got grabbed you are a hunter as well I started as hunter in the first round. In the second round I got caught pretty fast. But in the last round is started hiding with Liam, Esmae And Kaitlyn one time Ramani saw us and started coming but he never saw me so I was just chilling till the end.

Day 3

On the last day we had the dragon boat race we had some explanation in the morning and we started the race the first round was close but we lost. The Second round was close as well but we lost again and in the last round against the group that started with laser tag on day one. And it was close as well but we lost again so yeah that was the dragon boat race.

Disclaimer : The soup wasn’t even close to tasty .  (same for the chicken nuggets and chips)

LEAVING

We had to leave on day 3 as well (sad). We packed our stuff including the tents and we hopped in the bus again and it was a pretty fun ride as well !

 

 

This are some beautiful pictures of Residential.

– Contijn