Year 7 Museum/Domain Trip

The year 8s have gone to camp for the week so its just us, the year 7s. Every year when the year 8s go to camp, the year 7s get to go on a trip, this year was to the Auckland Museum. We got put into nine groups, all with an adult leader, either a parent or a teacher. Since half of the teachers have gone to camp, there was more parent leaders there.

On the bus ride there, nearly all the girls at the back end of the bus played a game called Chinese whispers. It was really fun because there were lots of girls playing which made the last message funnier. It wasn't long before we entered the Domain and by then everyone was pretty excited for the day.

First, we had morning tea before locking up our bags in a large crate so we didn't have to walk around holding a bag all day. All of the students also got given an activity sheet where we had to draw some things from the different galleries in the Museum. The Maori gallery was the first we visited where we drew the harakeke flax plant. Also something of our choice from the Maori and Pacific galleries. I decided to draw the Para from the Maori gallery and the Ula nifo.

We still had some time left after we completed the sheet and since everyone in our group wanted to see the Volcano part, we went there. The earthquake room was there and open so we went in there too. After we saw the inside of the Museum, we went outside to take photos of things that were listed on another activity list.

At about 2.00pm we all piled back into the bus and headed home, we played Chinese whispers again but it was a much more tired and slow game. I liked the day and the rest of the week was different but it was cool for change, it was just us year sevens but I know I will really miss the year 8s when they go forever at the end of 2014.