Sunday, November 29, 2009

Day 13

In the morning we woke up with no appetite at all so we skipped breakfast and went for as swim around the island.
“Hey you guys” I said “it’s our last day on the island, we’re going home tomorrow” I said excitedly “I don’t feel very well and I really need a decent shower and some new clothes” Micaela started moaning.
“Hey” Jayme said a smile lighting her face” why don’t we go home today” “Yes” Micaela and I screamed in excitement “In fact” Jayme said “Let’s go right now” “Yes let’s” Micaela said.
“First we needed to have a look around the island quickly just one last time” I said as I started walking. We started walking west we saw the birdlife e and all the trees and the flowers and we took in everything we saw.
As we reached the spaceship we got in and started belting up, I was driving “Ready” I asked Jayme and Micaela “Yes” The replied. So we started flying up and up and up. After a while we reached the force field thing again and everything went black but luckily this time we had safety belts on but it was still as scary as ever.
Suddenly we came out of the force field and started going down, a few minutes later we splashed into the water about a meter off the sand.
“I looked up to see all our parents waiting for us. Somehow we had lost a day. I stood up and ran towards my parents to give them a hug. Jayme and Micaela did the same.
“Mum, Dad” We all said embracing them in a giant hug “You’ll never guess what happened”....

Day 12

We woke up on the beach to the smell of cooked eel.
Micaela had made breakfast this morning and it smelled delicious. “Thanks Micaela” I said as she divided the eel “let’s climb the mountain today” I said. Both Jayme and Micaela agreed to that.
After breakfast we packed up our stuff and flew to the foot of the biggest mountain, we had a nice easy stroll and stopped often to admire the views, by the time we had finished it was 8.00 and it was starting to get dark so we headed back to the beach and relaxed until it got dark.

“Let’s play spotlight” I suggested drawing my torch” lets” the other two agreed drawing their torches as well.
We played spotlight for an hour around the beach up and down the mountain and through the water we played until Jayme fell over and grazed her knee.
After patching up her knee we set up our tent and went to sleep.

Day 11

“Guys” Jayme said as she gently shook me awake “guys” she repeated. “Why did you have to wake me up” I asked her groggily. “Because it is 10.00 in the morning she explained “and I cooked breakfast and its going cold”.
“So” Micaela said “what do you want to do today”, “nothing” I replied. “Let’s just spend the day on the beach”
So after breakfast we headed down to the southern beach and played there for the day, we had water fights and we just sunbathed but it was one of the best days so far. Later when we got bored we went back to the center of the island and cooked some eel.
That night when we were lying in bed we talked about our theories of the island. “The bird life I’ve seen is the bird life of at least 3000 years ago “I said. “There’s aliens, this island is completely sustainable and is no way a harm to the world” Micaela exclaimed” “and remember that force field thing we went through on the way here” Jayme said. “I think we’ve passed through an invisible force field into this sustainable island dome” I said “Being protected by aliens” Micaela pointed out ”Yes” Jayme agreed “But I think there is more” we all nodded. “We better get some sleep” Micaela said sleepily. ”G’night” We all said to each other.

Day 10

I awoke to the bright sunshine, this morning I cooked breakfast.
After breakfast we had a conversation about what to do today “I’m going for a swim” I informed Jayme and Micaela. “We’ll join you” they both said enthusiastically.
“Lets go to the big island and take a walk” Micaela suggested “Yea” I agreed getting up of the sand. We got all our bags ready and swam over to the larger island and started walking to the west.
On our hike we saw beautiful birdlife and even a few moa through the trees, we saw rare trees gorgeous flowers and bushes we even saw a few groups collecting wood in the forests.
After our walk we swam back to the little island and lay down on the beach: I’m gonna have a nap” Jayme said “Me too” Micaela agreed “Me three” I added. We all lay down and started chatting. “That was a really beautiful walk” Micaela said “Yes, and there was some really rare birds” I added “And the trees they were really interesting” Jayme added as we all fell asleep.
When we woke it was 5.30 PM so Jayme cooked some eel and divided it and then we lay down on the beach and did some watching of the clouds around the force field, I’m not sure when but we all fell asleep.

Day 9

I woke up and looked into our eel bag to find nothing “wake up “ I called to Jayme and Micaela “We have to go back to the stream” I said to them waking them up. “Let’s go get some more eel” Jayme said.
So we swam over to the big island and found the stream and all collected one eel each “Mine’s the biggest” Jayme teased Micaela “no mine is” she replied as we swam back over to the little island.
We started cutting up the eel “Mine’s the biggest” I said starting the whole charade again.
After that we went for a play on the beach, we did some swimming and we did some cloud watching. When it reached 7.00 we got up v”Il When we woke up it was still dark but it appeared to be quite late in the morning something spooky was going just then I saw the clouds roll in and then stop abruptly W hat was happening.
“So what do you want to do today” I asked Micaela and Jayme as I put some eel into the gas burner. “well I want to see why the clouds were doing that” Jayme said, “Yes” Micaela agreed maybe we are trapped in some kind of force field” Micaela said laughing “Maybe” I said all serious.” We should try and fly and see how far we get” “Maybe that will prove your theory” Jayme said to Micaela.”
So after breakfast we hopped into our spaceship and started flying east we flew for about a k and then got pushed backwards. “I looked out the window but there was nothing there so we tried flying again but we just kept bouncing back. “We are trapped in a force field” I said. “I wonder if we could stick our heads through it” Micaela said.
So I tied some rope around my waist and handed the other end to Jayme “hold on tight” I ordered her as I stuck my head out. Surprisingly I eased through easily the world out there was all polluted all the trees were rotting, (the few that were there) and there was litter everywhere all the water was black with oil it was disgusting I could hardly breath. So I pulled my head back through. I t was good to have fresh air again.
Micaela and Jayme then had their turns they were disgusted as well. “Thank goodness we are in this bubble” Micaela said, Jayme and I nodded our heads in agreement. I glanced at my watch it was already 5.00 at night.
“Let’s go back and have a swim” I suggested To Jayme and Micaela. We hopped back into our spaceship and flew over to our beach. We went for as swim in our nice clean blue water and then dined on eel. Then we set up our beds in our tent and went to sleep for the night. “Ill cook” Micaela offered, Jayme and I nodded in a agreement, Micaela cooked dinner and we all settled down and went too sleep.

Day 8

When we woke up it was still dark but it appeared to be quite late in the morning something spooky was going just then I saw the clouds roll in and then stop abruptly W hat was happening.
“So what do you want to do today” I asked Micaela and Jayme as I put some eel into the gas burner. “well I want to see why the clouds were doing that” Jayme said, “Yes” Micaela agreed maybe we are trapped in some kind of force field” Micaela said laughing “Maybe” I said all serious.” We should try and fly and see how far we get” “Maybe that will prove your theory” Jayme said to Micaela.”
So after breakfast we hopped into our spaceship and started flying east we flew for about a k and then got pushed backwards. “I looked out the window but there was nothing there so we tried flying again but we just kept bouncing back. “We are trapped in a force field” I said. “I wonder if we could stick our heads through it” Micaela said.
So I tied some rope around my waist and handed the other end to Jayme “hold on tight” I ordered her as I stuck my head out. Surprisingly I eased through easily the world out there was all polluted all the trees were rotting, (the few that were there) and there was litter everywhere all the water was black with oil it was disgusting I could hardly breath. So I pulled my head back through. I t was good to have fresh air again.
Micaela and Jayme then had their turns they were disgusted as well. “Thank goodness we are in this bubble” Micaela said, Jayme and I nodded our heads in agreement. I glanced at my watch it was already 5.00 at night.
“Let’s go back and have a swim” I suggested To Jayme and Micaela. We hopped back into our spaceship and flew over to our beach. We went for as swim in our nice clean blue water and then dined on eel. Then we set up our beds in our tent and went to sleep for the night.

Day 7

That morning we woke to find ourselves human again. “So what do you want to do today?”Micaela asked lets go search for a cure to mutantness” I said. “Yeah” agreed Dilshen “It isn’t really my cup of tea”. “Where should we start looking” Micaela said “maybe the radioactive lake” Jayme suggested with a questioning tome in her voice “Yes” we all screamed in delight “let’s go”.
So we all hopped in the spaceship and flew over to the radioactive lake “Right who’s going to jump first” I asked. Everyone was looking at me “Fine” I said as I tied a piece of rope to my waist and the other end to the handlebar of the spaceship and jumped into the lake. The water was a strange misty bubble gum pink color but I continued swimming anyway.
Soon after I heard three more splashes, Jayme, Micaela and Dilshen had all followed me. I glanced towards the bottom there was a strange looking alien in the bottom. So I swam down towards it when I reached the bottom it turned out there was no alien there. I stopped swimming and looked around I had just realized that I could breath and I had been under at least 20 minutes. “What happened to me” I thought to myself, I must be some kind of mutant. But I put that thought aside and continued swimming downwards there was some kind of vile in the bottom .
There was a glowing liquid in it “I must reach it” I thought as I stuck out my hand and grabbed the bottle. I felt a strange tingling sensation running through my body and r4eliased I was floating towards the surface.
When I reached the surface I looked up and saw the three others staring at me expectantly. “I found something” I said passing them the bottle. “Who’s gonna try it first” Dilshen said as I noticed they were all mutants as well.

“She found it” Micaela said thrusting the bottle into my hands, “OK” I said taking a gulp of the strange formula “I started shaking and then stopped abruptly and I looked down, I was human!!!!
I passed the liquid to Jayme the same thing started happening again and again.
“lets head back to the beach” Jayme said, I glanced to my watch it was already 6.00 PM. “That took along time” I said.
We got into our spaceship and headed back to our island. We cooked up some eel and had a little chat. “Tomorrow can I go back to my group” Dilshen asked, we all nodded sleepily and then fell asleep on the sand.

Day 6

We all awoke, I glanced to Jayme “aarrgghh” I screamed as I looked into her eyes, She had 1 brown eye and 1 green eye, “oh my gosh” what happened to your eyes” I screamed “What happened to your eyes” Micaela screamed back “we’ve been mutated” we all screamed in unison.
We all had different eyes one of each other’s...”What do we do” Micaela asked “I dunno” I replied as we turned around to look for Jayme . “Oh my gosh” I screamed a s I turned around to find a two headed alien with a strange resemblance to Jayme. “Guys it’s me” the alien said in a funny voice. “Jayme” she added.
“What happened...” I started until I realized that my voice sounded funny as well. “What’s happening to us” yelled Micaela, an alien as well.
“What do we do” I asked “I don’t know” Jayme and Micaela said together. “Let’s go find someone who can help” said Micaela “Like Dilshen” I replied “let’s go fly over the island and find him” Jayme said.
So we all got into the spaceship turned it on and flew after a few hours of searching we discovered Dilshen collecting firewood in the forest. We zapped him up through the tube in the bottom of our spaceship.
“Who are you” Dilshen screamed “Jayme Jess and Micaela” we all said, “oh ok” Dilshen replied in relief “let’s go to the lake” I said “Yeah” Jayme agreed darkly. After about ½ an hour we reached the; lake.
“No” Dilshen screamed as the robotic arm from the bottom of our ship dunked him into the lake, when we pulled him back he looked like us.
“No” Dilshen continued screaming as we flew back to our camping space. When we got back we cooked some eel and divided it between the four of us and went to sleep.

Day 5

I woke up to the sound of cooking eel, “Breakfast” Dilshen chirped, a hopeful look in his eye. “What do you want I asked him suspiciously, “My group” He said breaking down into a fit of sobs, just then Micaela walked out of the tent, “Don’t worry” She said “We’ll take you after breakfast” “Thank-you” Dilshen replied happily. We settled down and ate breakfast and then hopped into our spaceship and located Dilshen’s group.
“Goodbye Dilshen” We all yelled as he slipped back down through the tube “Goodbye” He wave back happily. After we had made sure Dilshen had found his group we headed over to the smaller mountain to do some hiking.
We started up the mountain and on the way stopped various times to admire the animals, the flowers and the views. When we finally reached the bottom the time had just gone 4.00 “I wanna go for a swim” Jayme moaned “Yea” Micaela agreed, so we flew over to the beach by our camping spot.
“I’m going to swim on the other side of the island.”I informed Jayme and Micaela “Me too” Micaela seconded “Me three” Jayme added.
We went for a nice peaceful swim around the island and then came back to our camping spot, where I cooked some eel “I’m Tired” Jayme said through a yawn, “Me too” Micaela and I said in unison.
We settled down on the sand and drifted into a long sleep.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Day 4

I shook Jayme and Micaela awake “don’t” Jayme said “I want to sleep” “No” Micaela exclaimed “Let’s go explore” “Fine” Jayme grumbled so we got up and cooked some eel and went exploring.
“Let’s go up the mountain” I said to Jayme and Micaela “yes lets” Micaela replied. So we started a hike up the mountain. When we reached the top we realised we were surrounded by pyramids of hexagonally packaged rocks “I have an idea” Jayme said “let’s see if we can pull them apart.” “That’s a good idea” Micaela replied.
We all found our own little stacks of rocks and started pulling them apart. “hey look’ I said to Jayme and Micaela there’s a chamber down there. “Let’s go explore it” Jayme said.
So we all jumped down into the chamber “look there’s a sign on the wall’ Micaela said “I’m gonna touch it” she said “no” we screamed at her as she reached for the symbol, nothing happened “see” Micaela said. ” look” Jayme exclaimed pointing to the opposite wall “it’s the same symbol” I said looking to the other wall there were the same symbols on all three of the walls.
“on three lets all touch the symbols” Micaela Said ”123” we all touched the symbols and all three walls started melting in to the ground.
Jayme screamed as she tripped and fell on the little stump of the wall I looked around it was the same scenario as before “let’s touch the symbol again” Micaela said “123” again we got the same result. This happened twice more until we got to the last chamber which held a spaceship.
By now the time had reached about 1.00 “let’s go explore this contraption” Micaela said. So we all hopped in the spaceship and started pressing the buttons nothing happened “I wonder why it isn’t working” I said “the switch is not on” Jayme said as we all burst into laughter “I’m bored” Micaela said “me too” I agreed “do you wanna sleep in here” I said “yes “ Jayme and Micaela cheered “I’ll get out the gas burner” Jayme exclaimed “yeah I’ll go get some eel” I said “and ill press buttons” Jayme said.
We set up the gas burner and cooked some eel. After tea we compromised our spaces in the spaceship and had a long peaceful sleep.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Day 3

The next morning we awoke to the bright sunshine, We packed up our bags and then started our journey through the water towards the second island.

Most of the water was low enough to walk through but we did end up swimming a few meters, When we reached the shore we again found two trees and hung nylon string between them to hang up our cl0thing, We then set up our tent on the beach and set up our beds.

By then the time had reached 10:00 AM and Jayme was starting to complain that she was hungry so we cooked up some more eel for lunch and had a nice talk, In our bag We only had enough eel to last 2-3 more meals, "lets check our clothing" said Micaela, when we reached the two trees the sun had gotten to our clothing and the color was fading but it was dry.

After we had put on our clothing we decided to explore a bit. We were climbing p a hill when we found a cave in the side. We decided to go crawling in on our hands and knees. A few meters in Jayme decided she would wait and let Micaela and I carry on without her , So we left Jayme with our backpack and took our rope and torches and carried on.

All the crawling was starting to hurt our knees "We should check on Jayme" I said, we turned around, There was some kinda wall between us. I ran up screaming and started banging on the door it was rock solid and looked like some kind of water fall "We should carry on" Micaela said, so we carried once crawling until we got to two caves,, one going up an one going down "Where should we go: Micaela asked "Up" I said staring at Micaela "Ok lets go up" she replied. So we started crawling up After 110 meters of crawling we saw a light "lets head over there" Micaela said, so we crawled another 10 meters or so until we reached the light, It turned out to be a glowing room full of bright blue jewels "I wonder where Jayme is" I asked "Who care s about Jayme" Micaela said so we grabbed a handful of jewels each and started stuffing our pockets, The jewels were bright blue "I wonder what's Jayme's doing" Micaela said "I don’t know" I replied , Just then a funny rock thing came down fro the top of the roof, Jayme jumped off "Jayme" I yelled "Jewels" She yelled back, I looked the rock was rising again "Get on" I yelled , So we all jumped on and started rising up, When we got to the top we all jumped off and looked around, We were surrounded by a whole lot of hexagonal packed rocs "Look" Micaela said as e started down the mountain "Where were you" Micaela asked Jayme. "On this mountain" She said "aarrgghh" I screamed as I fell down a cave in the side of the mountain "Where'd you gaarrgghh" Micaela screamed as she followed me down. I stood up and looked around we were in a room full of rubies, I glanced at Micaela her face glowing “Jewels, let’s get some” Micaela screamed, Just then Jayme came down the cave entrance and slammed into Micaela “Ouch” they both said standing up.
We turned around and saw the door closing behind us. Jayme screamed “calm down” Micaela said “there’s a passageway over there” Jayme turned red in embarrassment, “Knew that” she replied. We started downwards towards the exit; it looked like a big down sloping cave.
We went through it and came out the other end to the bottom of the mountain “thank goodness” Jayme said, “I know” I agreed “lets head back to camp” Micaela said, so we headed back, as we were walking we came across another cave.
“let’s go in” Jayme said “I dunno” I hesitated, “Yea” Micaela seconded “we should go in, come on live a little” Jayme said, so we followed her into the cave after a few meters she chickened out so I swapped places with her and was now standing at the front.
At the end of the cave was a room full of emeralds, we stuffed our pockets full and turned around to find out the door had shut, “mamma mia” Jayme said, ”There’s a passageway” I exclaimed pointing towards an exit “let’s go” Jayme said.
We started walking down the passage, when we came out the other end we had reached the place where we had first left our backpack “oh my goodness “ Micaela gasped “let’s set up a tent here and go to sleep” .We set up a tent, cooked some eel, ate our dinner and went to sleep.

Day 2

The next morning Jayme woke us up reminding us that we had to start our adventure, "what’s for breakfast" Micaela asked "Muesli bars and water" said Jayme. We got out of bed and packed up our belongings and our tent and started our trek down the beach.

After a while we reached a stream through the middle of the island. There were giant black things sitting in the bottom "What are those things" I asked " I dunno" Micaela replied as she grabbed a stick and poked it "they're dead” Jayme added "I think they're eels she said " "Lets cut them up and take some for food" Micaela said "that’s a good idea" I said handing the knife to Jayme so she could cut one up and then wrap them in our rubbish bags.

After that we carried on walking, It looked about 2:00 so we walked west a few more meters and set up camp for the night.

Across the water we could see the secondary island, "What are we going to do tomorrow" asked Jayme, after a long discussion we decided we would swim over to the little island and camp there for a few nights.

After a dinner of eel on the gas burner we settled down and went to sleep.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Day 1

This is my Day 1 story.

Everyone was tense and waiting, Mr Woody was doing the last minute rounds of gear checks and marking off the roll. “Right” Mr Woody yelled at us. Everybody stopped their chattering except for Jayme “I don’t think I can do this” she said to Micaela and I. “Breath” Micaela replied to Jayme.

“Let’s go” Mr Woody said “We are off to the Backpackers lodge at Kawhia Harbour”.

The next morning we departed to our seaplane for our return to Maitainui.... I glanced over at Jayme, her face looked puzzled “How are we all going to fit into that plane” she said I glanced to my left at Micaela she was really looking forward to this.

“Let’s board” said Mr Woody. We all started filing onto the plane. I could feel the butterflies in my stomach coming to life, I was really scared. Once we were all seated Mr Woody counted us off there were 30 of us. As Mr Woody sat down the pilot announced over the speaker that he was Samuel B from FIS. The whole plane erupted into nervous murmurs. “Isn’t he only twelve years old” said Micaela “Yep” replied Jayme. Just after Jayme’s reply the plane roared into life all three of us jumped, we all laughed uneasily.

The plane started moving in painfully slow circles making all of us 30 passengers even more tense, Finally after 5 minutes of slow circles we were off into the air, water spraying behind us and the whole class chattering nervously, The main topic of conversation was our camping groups, I had decided to go with my best friends: Jayme and Micaela, our game plan was to pack all of our 30 items (Ten items each Max. Number of items we were allowed to pack) into my backpack and leave the two other bags empty.

After a long conversation about our game plan we decided we would open the window and look at the views, We opened the window and screamed, the whole class turned too look at us "Open your windows" we all yelled in unison. Those who dared did others who didn't screamed anyway because they heard the thunder; we were heading into a big black cloud. "Calm down" Said Mr Woody trying to reassure us that everything was OK. But we knew nothing was OK. Mr Woody went flying back into his seat as lightning hit the plane, suddenly all the lights went out except for the small night lights in the plane and It went silent, I felt a strange tingling sensation I looked over to Jayme that was until I realized I was looking down on her, the whole class Had started floating weightlessly in the air, everyone except for Jayme who had her belt done up "Undo your belt" Micaela yelled to Jayme. Jayme undid her belt and started floating too "This is fun" she called but before she could enjoy the sensation anymore we all got slammed back into our seats. Suddenly we were out of the big black cloud and spiraling down towards the water, the speaker erupted into noise as Sam explained "he had never passed his pilot test", I was really scared now but that didn't last for long because the plane splashed into the water, I started hyperventilating we were all going to drown

“Look for the emergency hatch " screamed Mr Woody we all started searching but no one could find it after abut 10 minutes of frantic searching the plane started filling with water Jayme-Lee started throwing bags left right and centre "Found it" she yelled as she lifted the last bag and smashed the hatch with her elbow Micaela and I grabbed my bag and jumped through the hatch into the cold water fortunately I was wearing my t-shirt polar-fleece, long pants and Ice breaker so I didn't feel the cold.

I looked around I could see most of my class struggling through the water I looked over in the direction they were swimming towards the never visited island Matainui it looked about 100 meters away. I was already struggling with the backpack so I swam over to Micaela and Jayme who said that we should all have turns lugging the backpack so I handed it to Jayme she sunk beneath the water, she was to weak to carry the bag so all three all of us clipped our belts together and then used our rope to tie ourselves to the backpack, we started swimming to the shore stopping every so often to take a rest. Every second we got closer to the island and to being warm and dry this was the only anything that drove us to swim otherwise we would have drowned about thirty meters back.

We took the last few strokes and then started walking up to the shore I looked down and realized that Jayme had cut her leg on some glass I looked around at the beach. I was starting to have my suspicions about this place. I turned to Micaela “where’s the first aid kit “ she asked “ In my backpack” I replied reaching into my bag “Thanks” said Micaela as I passed it to her, suddenly Jayme-Lee let out a cry of agony the water had rushed up and gotten into her cut, Micaela and I picked her up and quickly cried her up the beach. Her cut looked quite bad. Micaela opened up the first aid kit and got out an antiseptic wipe and cleaned Jamye’s wound, I then wrapped a bandage really tight around her leg applying pressure to stop the bleeding.

We packed up our first aid kit and went a few meters down the beach so we could have some alone time.

After some struggling we set up a tent on the edge of the bush just on the sand and put some rocks and the pegs we then put down blankets some could have a warm dry rest. Micaela, Jayme and I then set out to find two stable trees we all set out south, after about 5 minutes we found two trees and hung up our wet clothing and got into some other stuff.

We then went back to our tent and had some lunch and water and had a conversation about the crash. All three of us agreed that this was not a normal crash and that there was something funny going on "Remember the black silent weightlessness" said Micaela "It reminds me of something" "almost like space" I replied. That set everyone thinking "well, I guess we should go get our clothing" said Jayme.

We all got up in search of the trees, when we found them we took our clothing down and went back to the tent to get some rest.