Day 4 - Thursday 12 September

Today was sadly the last night of camp. We went for a little tour around Russel. Firstly we went to a Catholic Church called Christ Church. We visited Tamaki Waka Nene grave from years ago. The church is one of the oldest building in New Zealand and its still standing in the same place. As we were walking around the church we saw lots of pullet holes in the church and I know that Hone Heke had something to do with those holes.

Hone Heke was apparently buried in one of the graves at the church. I was pretty surprised because he shot the church but the church was forgive and forget. We went to a place called The Pompallier House, As we were walking we saw Angela again from Kerikeri Stone Store she apparently has two jobs such as touring and Gardening. We learnt how to make clothes and other things with animal skin. After The Pompallier House we went for a little walk to the Flagstaff mountain.

It was so long and all of us were so tired. When we got up to the mountain Chris talked about what this mountain meant to the British and the Maori people. We started learning the Haka and the Waiata, We saw some people walking around and they started taking videos of us doing the Haka. We walked all the way down the mountain and went to the Russell Museum. After going to the museum all the groups came together and had our lunch.

We had our lunch for 30 minutes and played for 5 minutes. After our lunch we went to Long Beach for a swim. Each group had 15 minutes each to swim. When we got back to the campsite everybody went for showers. Everyone went to hang their wet clothes. After getting ready we went into the common room and got ready for dinner. For dinner we had a little feast since it was our last day of camp. After dinner we learnt the Haka that Maikey taught us.

After The Haka and our cleaning duties Chris and Magnus decided that we should do a bonfire for the last night. As we were walking Chris was talking about the stars. When we were sitting down surrounding the fire we all said our own personal thank yous to everyone. This time was an emotional time for everybody because it was the last day. After saying our thank yous we made smores and talked the night away. We walked back to our cabins and brushed our teeth.

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