| Larissa's Page |
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| My name is Larissa , I am 12 years old. My mum is the webmaster of this site and has told me I could have my own page. I am Year 8(Form 2),I use to go to Brownies . My sister, Cheyenne was a Brownie, my brother is not old enough to join anything yet. As I get older my interests will change, so will my page on this site. |
| Camp Kaitawa |
| In April 2005 my class and myself went to Camp Kaitawa for 4 days and nights. The School had hired three minibuses and two trailers, so that we could all go. We stayed in cabins, and we all shared the chores. |
| This is me standing outside the cabins. |
| Some of the activities that we did where walking around the lake, Crawling through caves, which had heaps of weta's and gloworms, visited the beautiful waterfalls and Lou's Lookout where you had to climb stairs that were made of dirt, at the top we saw the sparkling lake we also saw four sattilites flying through space. We had a swim in Bottomless Lake, went kayaking and I made the biggest rubber tube mountain. |
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| Lake Waikaremoana |
| On the journey to camp we had the back of the trailer come down, onions went rolling all over the road, in a way that was o.k. because then we did not have to peel them later, the road had rubbed the skin off them. And just before we arrived at the camp , a tyre exploded. This is when we were introduced to the ghost of Michael Noonan. We ended up visiting his gravesite. |
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| Michael Noonans gravesite |
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| Gravesite of a baby named Ronald Goodall |
| I really did enjoy my camping trip to Camp Kaitawa, and I hope that one day I will be able to go again. There is so much to do there and I learnt alot from being there, like working as a team, getting to know my classmates, teachers, headmaster and my friends parents that came along. It was amazing. My mum has told me that it snows in winter at the camp, so maybe I could visit again in winter. |
| Anzac Day with the Brownies and Guides |
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| My cousin Deeza and I at the Anzac Parade in Havelock North 2004 |
| Since joining Brownies , I have been to two Anzac Parades, my dad's father use to go to the Parades when he was alive. Now I do. You see the old soldiers line up on parade in rows, with walking sticks etc. And as soon as the Sergeant Major calls out "attention" all the men forget there sticks, forget the sore legs and all stand at attention all at the same time. Almost like they have gone back in time to when they were young. They all march, in time, down the street to the big statue in the middle of town, and often you would see hankies coming out of pockets and wiping the tears of those that remember their fallen comrades. Deeza's nana ,Leigh ,made a flower wreath to lay under the statue and Deeza and I were chosen to place it. No doubt I will be at the next Anzac Parade and hopefully be chosen again to lay the wreath. |
| In Memory of Private Michael Noonan Armed Constabulary Shot June 20th 1869 carrying Dispatches from Wairoa to Onepoto |
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| Background music is Lean on Me |