Sailing

 Today room 11 went sailing in the Akarana RAYC (Royal Akarana Yacht Club). So first of all we got out of the bus and there was a teacher named Kelly and Kim, they were the ones that leaded us to the place where they were gonna welcome us. They first welcomed us and told us what we were gonna do after. They told us we don't have to panic because there's adults everywhere and they'll keep an eye on us but we were still scared. After welcoming us we had lunch because you can never do anything without having a snack. We were so excited that we didn't want to eat something but I told them to have something. After having a snack we got into a gear, so first of all we grabbed one of each. There were wetsuit, life jacket, helmet because of the boom and aqua shoes or your shoes you came with. We went to get changed and there bathrooms looked so fancy inside. Once we were done one of the instructors told us to split into 3 groups cause there were 3 fun activities. He teached us how to use the rudder and what were the things that were on the boat. We were first with the Rebecca, she first teached us how to put up the sail and the ropes. It was hard because the sail was long and it kept hitting us but we managed to put it up with the ropes. After putting it up we went back inside and she was teaching us how to tie a knot in with a rope. We first did the figure 8 and it was pretty hard but when she said make a loop strangle the alien then punch it in the face I found it a bit more easy. After we did challenges and the challenge was to try make a figure 8 behind you back, first one finished wins. It was kind of easy but most of ours were to strangled, and yes you can tell if its too strangled or a figure 8  Our other one was a Sheet bend and I forgot how to do but it was kind of like how you tie your shoelaces. After we went on the small boats and they were called the optimist. There not that small but maybe the size of a normal desk. I went with my friend Andy, he was so excited that he was acting like Maui. It was so funny because he was standing and he tried to flip the but because he wanted to swim so bad. There were 2 pink buoy's in the water and we sailed back and forth. We switched a few times because there we to many of us and they weren't equal. It was so fun because we went on a boat, kind of like a speed boat but a bit bigger. It was so fun that I wanted to stay on. After learning how to sail we played a game and we had to collect the tennis balls floating in the sea. It was so funny cause I tried to reach out for the tennis ball and I fell off the boat, I was so cool that I wanted to stay in but one of the instructors helped me out. After sailing we went on a bigger boat and it was called the Quest. It was 4 per boat including a instructor. The instructor we had was named Lewis and he was one of the best instructors. When we were in Andy was holding onto the boat and leaving his legs out. He was scared that there might be a shark coming from the back and was gonna bite his legs. After him saying that we started to talk about sharks that he straight away put his legs in. We saw the other Quest boat and one of them jumped off to come into our boat but the boat was moving a little fast so we left him then Andy jumped in to save him but the boat couldn't stop because it was a bit windy. We left them and we were a bit far that neither of us wanted to go save them. We turned back and got them so they jumped in and they were so tired because they had to move their arms around to. We turned back but before that he lets us have a bit of a swim then turned back to the ppntume. We hoped off and we were gonna jump of and have another free time with the class but we didn't have that much time. We all changed filled in these sheets then went back to school. It was one of the best days in my life that sailing became a hobby.