Year 9 camp was the best! A week in Kalbarri, hiking and eating whatever we could carry, we had a great time. My group was a great mix of people that I sort of knew, but weren’t my best friends. Because of this, I made a bunch more friends.

On our camp, I learnt/built on a lot more than just teamwork and leadership. For example, we were really good with our waste and we recycled most of our stuff.

I believe that teamwork (and leadership) are some of the many important skills required in life. The literal meaning of teamwork is the combined action of a group, especially when effective and efficient. I applied this many times of camp, as most of our activities required teamwork. We played a game of volleyball with tarps and had to work together to serve the ball.

My tent partner was Song, who had never been camping before. Over the week I taught him some cool camping tricks and helped him out. This was a great example of my leadership on camp.

I remember my camp leaders, Vicky and Mr. K, commenting on my leadership when we were hiking out of 4 ways, because I kept pointing out little things and making sure our whole group were alright.

Leadership is a very important skill, yet there can’t be leadership without teamwork, because with no team there is nothing to lead, but without a leader, teams can fall apart.

My group worked very well as a team,because of the great teamwork we skills developed. We set up our tents in groups, made and ate food in groups, cleaned up, lead and organised in groups. These opportunities helped us to learn; patience when we were putting up the tents, initiative when preparing food, communication when cooking the food, organisation and helping others when leading and helping our groups.

The group situation that we were put in, gave us opportunities to lead the team, and even the adults, gave us incredible opportunities to improve our leadership and teamwork skills.

Overall, I reckon Camp Kalbarri was a great experience to learn and have fun in a lovely place with good friends.