Canoeing by Fedya

On a Tuesday afternoon, after lunch, us - group seven, went out with our instructor Morna and our parallel Primary six teacher - Miss Stewardson.   We went to the shed to get a life jacket and a waterproof in the drying room.  Afterwards, we came along to a minibus in which we went to the Loch with the river gently floating down in its direction.  We got inside and set off.

 

   As we were sitting inside, me and my friend Leo saw a sticker in the corner of the front window which said ( probably who published it) - A.T.Phillip.  So we always called that particular minibus Phillip.  At the back of the minibus, the girls were making up silly songs about people in their classes and dorms.

 

   When we finally arrived at the beach, we had a gentle entry into the water.   Morna got out first and helped us open the slide-open door which we couldn't open personally.  As we got out, we saw that Morna was going to a group of canoes huddled together and covered with a huge kind-of rubber sheet.

 

   Morna told our group to get the sheet off and bring the canoes down to the beach.  We picked up the canoes one by one all together and carried them down.  Although there was ten of us, it was still very heavy.  When we at last finished, we went up to an old, rusty shed.  As the door creaked open, we peered in and saw lots of paddles.  Some were on the floor, some hanging down from hooks, some on shelves...

 

   Morna gave all of us a paddle and taught us how to paddle properly  with the one or two people who you were sitting next to. I got to sit with Flora from the other class and Miss Stewardson.

 

   At first we were just getting used to it, but later we were banging into each other and playing about.  Later Morna asked us if we wanted to play a game and we all wanted to.  She explained that everybody needs to throw the ball into Morna's boat which would give us points.  And if any of us fell off the boat, that would give Morna's team points.

 

   But we still won because none of us fell off and we chucked the ball three times into their boat. We canoed to a little stony beach and drank hot chocolate and Ribena.  We hopped back in and had a race to see who would be first back.  We won the race, and helped everybody to put the canoes back as they were before.

 

   Then we drove back to the main building for cakeO'clock.