2-6's Class Trip 2007

Today we, 2-6 (2nd Year, Class 6), had the annual class trip that is organised within the home rooms and coordinated by the students with the help of the Home Room teacher. We'd decided to go for a Barbeque in the rural scenery of Omori Resort Camp, about an hour or so away from the school by bus. We'd already seperated into groups and decided that each group would cook a different type of food, which would then be shared around the whole class.

My group had decided on Okonomiyaki and within the group we'd each been allocated items to buy and bring on the day, mine being eggs. Anyway, we met up to get on the bus outside the tennis courts just before 9:00 and had left by about 10 past. The bus trip there was pretty uneventful, but the scenery once we'd escaped the city was really nice. There were some amazing mountains, rivers and whatnot. The kind of thing I have never seen in Australia. It was really something else.

When we got closer to the site of our barbeque we had to get off the bus since it couldn't go any further - we had to go on foot. This was okay, despite the heat... and it is getting hotter! In the high twenties, and I keep hearing that Summer is going to be hellish.

Anyway, when we arrived at the little park we were having the BBQ we seperated into our groups and went about preparing and, eventually, cooking. It took ages to actualy get the fire started though! I was proud of my fire-starting skills though, since I got it going after not too long haha. Our Okonomiyaki was quite great tasting, and we got a few compliments on it :D

After everyone had eaten a few games were played. Some people played badminton, others played volleyball or softball. I wandered around talking to different groups of people and being asked to take photos with people haha. Emika had brought along a big teddy that doubled as a purse or (very) small bag. She asked me be in a photo holding it haha, and after that we took way too many photos involving the bear...

At the end of the day we took a class photo which I rather like and you can see above! And then we headed back to the bus and eventually back to the school. I had an awesome time, and it was really great to just relax and get to know the other class members a bit better outside of the classroom setting I see them in. I managed to make some new friends and get to know some people I hadn't yet talked to much at all :D!