Zip wire adventures
Becky's story
It all started when I heard that I was invited to do a few planning evenings to organise something for children in care. I was very pleased to have been asked so I accepted the offer and went to planning evenings. There were 3 other girls doing the planning with me so I was very excited to meet them and share ideas.
We started thinking about doing a day in a farm and then staying in the farm over night, but then we scrapped that idea and came up with GoApe at Moors Valley but then we realised it would be too expensive. Then one of the girls came up with doing the Altitude at Littledown, so we researched a little bit more and figured it would work. On our final planning day we had pizza and designed the flyer that we were going to send out. We invited foster children and the children of the foster families too. We sent the flyers out and the day finally came.
I was so excited and enjoyed the whole day. First we went on the small Altitude which then lead to the big one. It was very scary at first but everybody managed to do it. Next we moved on to jumping off the very top of Altitude, this was called the leap of faith. After that we moved on to the zip wire all the way over the lake. In the lake you could see fish, it was so cool.
Finally we moved on to the hall were we made a massive picture in our groups of how we thought the day had gone. I think the day was really successful and my favourite part was the zip wire because it was so fast and really fun. I'm sure that everybody enjoyed the day because when we were doing our posters at the end there were not very many negative things said about the day.
Anna's story
Earlier in the year I was part of a group of young people who helped to plan this year’s activities for children living with foster families, and as part of that we visited Brokerswood Country Park at the end of May. I was very anxious about going and meeting new people. When I got there I only knew one person, but by the end of the day I knew around seven or eight people.
The day started by doing tree climbing or zipwire. I chose zipwire and that was one of the most sensational things I have ever done; my heart was pounding whilst my hands started to sweat. After that we went and enjoyed a luxurious bbq. Then we did a treasure hunt which I really enjoyed.
In the afternoon I did canoeing, the man instructed us in what to do first, then I had the most fun, I fell in the lake twice! Eventually, sadly the day came to an end and it was time to say goodbye. I enjoyed my day, I found it much easier to make friends than I had thought and I got along with everyone, children and adults. I hope everyone enjoyed the day as much as I did.
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