Bintan

On the 25th of April I went to camp at Bintan with my class from school.

When I arrived at school I went down stairs to join the stage where choir was being held, so I could sing my songs. When I had finished I went to the classroom and played some games with Esther and Zoe.

At 11.00 clock we left school for Bintan, everyone was excited! When we got on the bus I sat next to my friend Esther and we talked to each other about what fun it was going to be without any parents around.

We arrived at the ferry terminal, got off the bus with our passports in our hands, ready to get through the gates. As soon as we got through the gates we got on the ferry and watched x-men, the journey was two hours long!


When we arrived at the Indonesian ferry terminal we waited half an hour for the people to stamp our passports, it was tedious. After that we left the ferry terminal and got onto a bus which took us to a boat.
After an hours journey we arrived at the boat which took us to ‘Loola adventure camp’ which was where we were staying. The journey was two hours long so we did some boom netting on the way and it was fun! Boom netting is an activity when you jump from a boat into a net which is dragging along the water. You are allowed to jump from the 1st floor the second floor or the 3rd floor which is really high up! When I went boom netting I got 5 goes, I jumped from the second floor 4 times and the 3rd once because it was scary!

When we arrived at Loola it was night time and we had to get in to groups depending on how many people can fit in a cabin, so I stayed with Esther, Zoe, Seung-a, Sophia, Louisa, Isabella and Ananya. Our cabin had two bunk beads next two each other and four mattresses on the floor so we decided 4 people would sleep on the mattresses one night and we swap over the next.

The next morning we woke up got ready then went to breakfast. After breakfast we came back and talked about the cabin, I thought the cabin was nice because it was situated above the water on poles.

Our first activity of the day was rock climbing, it was quite hard because the rocks were quite small, I had three goes and I only managed to reach half way up.

After rock climbing we went to the obstacle course, it was really hard! At the obstacle course we had to climb up a wall about 2 metres high there was nothing to stand on to get up there, so a girl called Tsenyi pushed us from the bottom whilst Ananya pulled us up from the top, it was really fun!

After the obstacle course we had free time so I went out crab hunting with Zoe, Dheina, Hugh and Seung-a and we found lots of crabs even purple ones.

Building a raft was our next activity but it was so difficult so no one managed to do it because when they were put in the sea they fell apart, it was tiring.

After building the rafts we went kayaking, I kept falling out every minute so Esther and Dheina left me in the water to swim back to the shore, but don’t worry the water was shallow and we had life jackets on.

The last activity we did was the flying fox and it was awesome! The flying fox is an activity where you hold onto a bar attached to a long rope, then you slide down the rope into the sea. When it was my turn I said I wasn’t going to go because I was too scared, the drop looked steep. A minute later the man attached me too the harness and said he wouldn’t go too fast so I jumped off the platform and screamed awesome, I was flying in the air, a few minutes later I had landed in the sea and I wanted another go but I wasn’t allowed so I played in the sea with Esther.

After the flying fox everyone got a shower then went too dinner. We were having a BBQ by a huge fire. After we had eaten, a man who worked at Loola put some music on and we all danced around the fire for an hour. After dinner we put our pyjamas on and went to bed.

The next day we woke up at 6:00 a.m. got ready then went to breakfast. Our first activity of the day was archery. When it was my go I didn’t hit the target because it was so hard, Louisa was the only one who hit a bulls eye.

After archery we played badminton with a partner. I played with Esther but she didn’t know how to play so I taught her and she kept getting better until the end of the game.

When badminton had finished we had to pack our stuff then leave, it was sad. Everyone enjoyed Bintan and I wish we can go back there again.

Photos from top:

1. Zoe, Esther, Me and our teacher Miss Foster on the ferry to Bintan
2. Esther, Seung-a, Isabella, Me, Zoe, Ananya, Sophia and Louisa
3. Our Cabin
4. Esther on the boat