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Poetry is a type of writing  that produces a thought, describes a scene or tells a story. In a lyrical arrangement of words. Poems can be structured, with rhyming lines and meter, the rhythm and emphasis of a line based on syllabic beats. Poems can also be freeform, which follows no formal structure.

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‘’Today is finally the day !’’ I wailed in the car on the way to school.
All the food and activities, i can’t wait when we got their all you could hear was nature and us laughing.

24 HOURS LATER..........

‘’Get me out of hear !’’ I said the food is the worst, and I thought the food would be good but it’s the opposite actually it’s grosse .but the activities were great fun. We went swimming , as I jumped in the pool with poppie and Emma I froze to death , but it was okay .

YEAR 7 CAMP IS STILL ONE OF THE BEST!

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“Do me, do me, do me,” people pleaded as they shoved their hands in my face.
“One at a time,” I hushed as I grabbed someone’s hand and listened to the exciting buzz of the girls around me giggling. I soon found out that I grabbed Riley’s hand. She smiled at me as she begged me to read her palm. “What would you like to know about your future?” I asked, preparing to read her palm. “Tell me if I will be rich,” Riley replied. I put one of my hands underneath Riley’s hand, holding it up, and used the other one to gently stroke it. I then closed my eyes and quietly started chanting some random sound. “Mow, mow, mow, mow, mow, mow...” I quickly repeated. I could hear the girls laughing as I entertained them with my psychic palm reading. I then opened my eyes and made up a fake story to tell Riley. “Yay! I’m gonna be rich!” Riley squealed when I told her.
“How do you know this stuff?” Someone questioned.
“Pictures pop up in my mind, that’s why I close my eyes,” I lied as I grabbed Caitlin’s hand.
“Woah! That’s so cool!” Everyone gasped, believing me.
“What’s my social life gonna be like?” Caitlin asked, without waiting for me to ask her for her question. I closed my eyes, stroked her hand, and started chanting as the air filled with laughter. A lot of “mows” later I slowly opened my eyes and said, “In your future I see... you surrounded by heaps of people. I see you and your very popular. Also next to you is Cooper.” As soon as I said that Caitlin started freaking out and her friends cracked up laughing, since Cooper got Caitlin when he did the red rose thing. Her friends quickly hopped up and ran to tell Cooper, as Caitlin died from embarrassment, burying her face in her hands. “Wait, do they actually believe me?” I exclaimed.
“Yes!” Caitlin replied, “They honestly think your psychic.” I burst out laughing and told everyone that I was just making up stories for them. Everyone looked so disappointed but agreed that it was very entertaining. As someone once said, “All good things must come to an end,” I thought as the fun ended.

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Pool Fun Day

Laughter and chatter filled the pool area. The calm beautiful water from the pool sparkled into everyone’s eyes. “I can’t wait to hop in” I exclaimed. “It looks cold” my best friend Molly replied. “Everyone can hop in the pool now” Mr Iriks said. ’SPLASH’. About 40 people had jumped into the refreshing pool. “It’s so cold” I said. “Yeah but nice on a hot day like today”. Molly exclaimed. We were all playing pass in the pool with the ball. Everyone had so much fun playing with people, that they didn’t know that well. “Here” I called out, hands up ready to catch the ball. The ball flew in the air over peoples heads. I jumped in the air and caught the ball. Overall I had so much fun playing with my faction and getting to know people better and making new friends.

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‘Splash!’, the noise of the people around me jumping into the pool. “Riley, come in the water!” Dakota yelled from in the water. I jumped in and made a gigantic splash. “Oops”, I said to Dakota as I turned around slowly to face her. We both bursted into laughter. Amelia and Zoe came and joined us and I started swimming. I came back up from the water and flicked my head back because I had hair in my face. Dakota, Amelia and Zoe all thought I looked weird so Zoe mimiced me.

After a while we stopped and joined in the boys cake of catch in the water. Although, we were the only girls playin it was twice as fun and funny. Since we were the only girls we turned very competitive. Dakota and myself tried to race each other and tried to do tricks even though we aren’t very good at either. We were all having the time of our lives, grinning from ear to ear. Until.... Mr Iris said it was time to get out of the water. We all took our time to get out the pool and I couldn’t wait to get back into the water.

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The suitcase circus

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the circus

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Suitcase circus

I wake up in the cold dark morning and wake up my friends we chat for a bit then slowly get our clothes and toiletries ready for a shower, I head out of my dorm and go straight for the showers, I hop in the showers and immediately I feel the ice cold water hit my skin I do my shower as quickly as I can and jump out and get dressed and brush my teeth, I head out and chat with my friends till we hear a loud whistle go off we head to our factions which we then go as groups to our activities. Mackillops was suitcase circus, the guy who’s hosting introduces us and shows us everything we are gonna do so we get split up into  groups and mine does poi, poi is a ball which is attached to a string then you hold the end of the string and flail it around, poinis kinda fun and easy. Next was hoola hooping, pretty straight forward, was very fun. Next was plate spinning the way it works is a plate gets spun on a stick and you have to keep the plate on the stick kinda fun but hard. Next was flower sticks, the way it works Is two small sticks balance a big stick and the small stick throw the big stick in the air and you have to catch it with the small sticks, kinda fun but hard. Next was juggling, pretty straight forward, fun but really hard. And lastly was Diablo, diablo works by two sticks attached by

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The Talent show
It was a a cold dark foggy Thursday night and everyone entered the sports hall eager to see all of the acts the most memorable moment of my camp experience was the talent show. It was great everyone there was having such a fun time singing, dancing joining in with all of the acts. Then suddenly the teachers came up to the stage it was hilarious they were all dancing around in the mascots suits then everyone ran up onto the stage and were  dancing with each other it was so fun getting to spend time with all of my friends laughing and having such a nice time. All of the acts did so well Sarah-Jane, Anna and so many more they all made that night memorable for everyone :)

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“I’m dying to go home” said Kayleigh with a tired voice, as she got barely any sleep that night. About an hour had passed and everyone was called into the sports hall. Some people seemed to be walking like zombies because the were so tired, at least that’s what I thought. Everyone had finally made their way into the sports hall and at that exact moment Miss Roberts said “ok everyone, I want you to get into groups of  4 - 5 people”. Bianca, Tannika, Poppie, Emma and I were in an unstoppable group together called The Tea Gang. Everyone was pumped to start the trivia and  The Tea Gang was in it to win it. We always got a high score, but never managed to have the highest score in rounds 1 - 4. No student actually knows what group / s won round 5 and 6 and who were the overall winners. ( But we hope it was us ).

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Bzzz.. “what was that?”I thought to myself during drama class. Bzzz... “AHHHH!’ Screamed half the class after a little bug entered the dining haul.”don’t worry about it, its just a bug!” Shouts the our drama teacher. Bzzz... “EEEEH!” Screamed the other half as the pest hovered over them. But finally to end the catastrophe ms Roberts had numerous failed attempts to squish the bug, suddenly a hero steps out the crowd and slaps the annoying bug to put it out of its misery. but that slap didnt do the trick...

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The Amazing Pool
Have u been so rushed that u been late for something, that is what is happening to me right now, I’m not even changes I said to myself, I was trying so hard not to be late, I got all my stuff and started to run to the gates Mr wheeler open the gate and I ran in there I got my t-shirt off and pin drop into the water that was freezing water, I get to the top of the the water and said to my friend that the water is really nice they all jumped in and to the top and started to calling me a liar it was so funny but then I see a red ball so I started swimming as fast for it I get it and give it to my friend called kade so we can play king of the pack they were a lot of good catches so I wanted to do an amazing one so I go to the wall I see the ball in mind air I jumped for it but it was to far away to catch it with two hands so I tapped with my left hand and catch it with my both hands I fall into the water a started to laugh but then Mr Wheeler says that it is time to go.

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“Hello my great dorm friends!” I yelled while opening the door and closing it after I stepped in, “sup” Annalise,Abigail,Haylie and the other Haylie said to me simultaneously, “hello new dorm friend” my new friend Eilenne said, “hi...” two other girls said (I forgot there names).

"Hey guys I will be back in a sec.” Haylie said followed by everyone els except for me and Eilenne. “Hey Charlotte watch this” Eilenne said while grabbing Haylie’s pikachu teddy, “yeet” she said while throwing the teddy under one of the bunk beds’. “The wild pikachu ran away” I said while trying hard not to laugh. But then we both started laughing.

The door opened and Haylie,Abbie and Anna walked in, me and Eilenne were waiting for Haylie to notice which took a while but then yelled at me and Eilenne “where is my pikachu!?” Eilenne motioned her hand to tell me ‘don’t say anything.’ But I couldn’t help but start laughing.

In the end Haylie got angry at me and blamed me for throwing it under the bunk beds’ but Eilenne told her that she did it, Haylie unfortunately never forgave us but at least it was funny.

- Charlotte

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Kangapoo

Kangaroo poo! Out all the things it could of been it just had to be kangapoo.

It was the first day of camp and the first activity for Chisholm was team building exercises.Mr Iriks the head of Chisholm was making us play tunnel ball but instead of using a ball we had to crawl on the floor which had a fat coat of kangapoo on it through each other’s legs!

It got to my go so I unwillingly got on to my hands and crawled. I got to about halfway when I heard a massive ‘SQUELCH!!!’ I suddenly knew that I had been struck by the kangapoo. But I just put my head down and crawled motivated by my competitiveness. I got to the end and looked down at my knees to see a healthy layer of kangapoo.
I heard someone laughing there head off, so I looked in the direction of the noise to see Mr Iriks and even though it was me he was laughing at I had to join in.

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I remember that wonderful day at camp we had. It was our 2nd last activity before lunch and MacKillop had swimming. “Yes,” I whispered to myself when Mr McNulty said we are swimming. Once we got our bathers on we went over and the teacher explained the rules. We weren’t allowed to do bombies but the first thing someone did was a bombie and the teacher was angry. “It’s freezing!” Someone yelled out loud. Once you were in there for a while you got used to the freezing cold water. When everyone was in we started playing this game with a ball.

The next day we went in the pool again and the year 10 peer support leaders were there. Once again we started playing with a ball but this time it was markers up. We ended up having lots of people playing. It started getting roughso  I just was the one throwing it up for them to catch.

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It was my third activity and the second day of camp. Teresa and Chisholm joined up because we both we’re doing the  suitcase circus. The circus guy showed us how to do some tricks and how to use the equipment. I was so excited to use them but I had to wait until he had finished showing us them. He showed us the hula hoop, juggling, trysical, spinning plate and diablo. I started on the diablo with some other people. I grabbed the diablo and put it on the string. I started moving my hand really fast to make it spin faster. When I got it to a good speed and pulled the string to make it flying up in the air. It was coming down and I cought it on the sting. I was really bad at everything else except for the spinning plates. With the spinning plated you put the plate on the stick and move the stick to make the plate spin. It was a really fun experience and I hope I can do it again.

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Free Time

As chatter fills the sports hall my friends and I all burst into our dorm falling over Amelia’s mattress. As we laugh and giggle Sianna yells, “let’s have a talent show!” We all look at each other at the thought of it.
"Dibs going first!” Yells Jacynta. As she walks along the spread out mattresses we all sit ready to judge.
"Our first contestant is Jacynta,” yells Sianna making her voice sound like a commentators. Jacynta stands backwards towards the layout of mattresses. She swings her arms and flips doing a perfect back handspring. We all clap and cheer in amazement. “Next up is Hayley,” says Sianna. Hayley steps up and does a forward roll. Then it’s my turn. Suddenly I run and hurl myself forward doing an almost perfect dive roll, aside for the fact I almost fell over. Everybody cheers and claps as I walk back to sit down. “Let’s make a human pyramid” yells Jacynta. Hayley, Jacynta and I all went on the bottom whilst Amelia and Sianna went on the top. When we finally made it Sianna slipped making us all fall. Afterwards we all made a human sandwich with me on the bottom of course. Camp was so fun apart from the food and spending it with my friends made it even better

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Camp Cockfighting
"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!” Everyone wildly screamed and shouted. I look at Tannika and laugh, we put our leg up and get ready.  “Ready? FIGHT!” Said Caitlin. I push Tannika as I hopped like a maniac, she suddenly fights back. Five minutes straight, of aggressive pushing and shoving was nearly over. ‘Plu,’ I spat. Tannika just stuck her finger ( which I don’t know where it has been ) directly into my mouth. I gag, as I try to continue the fight. “KILL HER! MAKE HER FALL!” Caitlin hysterically exclaimed like a physcopath. I laughed so hard, that I put my foot down. I fall on Monique, dying of laughter. The fight was over. And by the way, for those who don’t know what cockfighting is, its not what you think it is.

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The pool

Whistle, whistle, everybody ran and sat down to see what activity they had first. When Mr McNulty said that Xavier, I was hopping for the inside activity except we got the pool. I was kind of exited but I knew it was going to be freezing. Then Mr McNulty said go, everybody ran to there activity’s but the Xavier people ran to get there bathers on. We waited out of the pool for a minute to listen to the instructions, then everybody ran and jumped in the pool but I didn’t because it was freezing cold. I took the long way to get in but after a phew minutes, I finally got inand  the water felt warmer. When I finally got in all of the other people were playing a ball game and it was boys vs girlsit  was really fun.

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Splash! Was the only thing I could hear it was finally Loyola’s turn in the pool at the best time of the day because it was sunny and everyone would want to go in the pool at the time my favorite was the little red ball that I could play with and then I got one of my best friends Matthew.W to play the catching game were we just threw it up in the air and caught it
Then eventually other people joined in and then we had about a quarter of the people in Loyola in year 7 playing and many people’s favourites were the mini fountain and we all had a play with it that spat out water into the pool and Cade.W really liked it because he could put his hand in front snd and a Chinese like fan shape. I never liked the wasps because we need bees right? And they attack bees and they sting anyone so when ever the wasps came close I would splash at them and they would back off or buzz of right? and I never wanted to leave the pool but eventually the ball would hop out of the pool and someone would have to get it and then we would continue playing until its time to go back and get dressed for another activity and in free time I always jumped back in the glorious pool.

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Sneaking quitly feeling the soft grass upon my feet trying not to be court by Lara. I am behind her now. The rest of the girls except for Ben were giggling and I dropped onto the grass to grab the tin of mints from under her chair. All i could hear was my breathing now, gently grabbing the tin and raising my hand NO! To mints moved inside, I ran as rastas my legs can go but no Lara got me before i got back to the line.

The year 10 boys were playing with the vortex. After a while we had to go join then until we had to switch activities.
The whistle blowed and it was time fro the pools ‘yes!’ I ran back to the sports hall were i got into my bathers and ran to the fence. Mr wheeler and Mr Delamont opens the gate and all of the us ran in placed our stuff down and jumped in. Slowly after the year 10s came walking in and joined us. After a while i joined Jordan and we saved lady bugs! After 3  the whistle blowed and we went for break.

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Cock fighting

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Splash, I fall into the pool and then in just a few milliseconds I freeze to death. Everybody else is splashing around or chilling out or some were even playing volleyball ball. Me Jazz, Isidora and Jesse stared racing each other from side to side of the pool. Once we all got tired we started to chill and play catch later we all stared feeling like four ice blocks so we kept out feet in the water a sat. Down on the nice warm paving with the Brightest big sun shining in our eyes we took our hair out so it could dry. Once it was time to get out of the pool we grabbed our nice dry towels and ran to out dorms so we could quickly get changed for or next actives

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The Bus Ride To Camp

“Really!” We all moaned, annoyed. “What’s happening?” Oliver said, confused,  “Our bus isn’t working, we have to change busses”, Shanice said, rolling her eyes at Oliver. As everyone hopped off the bus Mrs Pethrik waved us on, derecting us where to go. As we walked Mrs Pethrik stopped at a bus, I looked inside, it was the MacKillop bus. “Who would like to go on the MacKillop bus?” Mrs Pethrik smiled and looked around for hands. “I guess... I’ll go!” I said enthusiastically remembering that I had friends in MicKillop. I walked to the back of the bus, no seats, I began to walk towards the front to find a seat. “Hey, keep moving back”, Mrs Davies said. I saw the bus door close, because I catch the bus to and from school everyday I was not scared of stands in the bus. “You can sit with us if you want”, The voice sounded very familiar, I then saw Mia, I jumped into the seat with Mia next to the window and a girl I had never seen before in the middle. “WOW” I exclaimed as I looked at the very realistic drawing of an eye the girl I’d never seen before was drawing. “You like it?” She asked looking as me as I was in shock. “Oh... how rude of me”, I said relising I hadn’t introduced myself, “I’m Jade” I exclaimed smiling at her. “I’m Gypsi”, She said as she returned the smile.

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“Ahh!” I shrieked in a high pitched tone, the icy water soaked me from head to toe. “Wahh!” I heard a few other girls yell. The pool was so cold. Thirty-something other people swimming in the clear blue waters. Quickly realising the two large red balls, we began to throw them around. Spraying water in its unclear path. “Keeley!” I shouted, she throws the ball high over the crowd and it lands in my grasp. I pass the ball off to Chas, he passes it to Shae, she passes to Emily, the cycle continues with various other students. Everyone yelling and splashing, cooling off from the hot sun. I call for the ball, but Keeley intercepts the path. The ball now in Keeley’s hands. This time I didn’t call for the ball, I swam closer to her and reached for the ball. I tightened my grip and pulled the ball from Keeley’s hands. Quickly ditching the ball at the opposite end of the pool. Not my smartest move, I must admit. Keeley is pretty much the fastest swimmer in not only Teresa, but the whole of Year 7. She swiftly speeds towards the ball and throws it to Hannah, who is waiting on the other side. Despite the constant splashing and fighting, the pool was defitinitely the best part of camp for me personally. I loved the games we played.

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I folded myself into my suitcase, reached out my arm and closed the lid. My friend Mathew zipped up my wheely blue suitcase and we where off! Mathew wheeled me out to the stage were all the Peer Support Leaders where hanging out. Slowly he lowered me down and unzipped the lid. There were gasps of amazement and expressions of shock from the Peer Support Leaders as I unfolded myself an stepped out. I folded myself back in and we did this routine for three more groups of Peer Support Leaders some who had seen my trick before and some who hadn’t. At the end of my last one a Chisholm Support Leader asked if she could video me and I agreed so she gave her phone to another leader and zipped me up and began to run then she lowered me down and unzipped me. Then they left asking the girl to send the video to them. By Noah Dugouchet

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The talent show
Jack Illich stood in the middle of the stage, it was a cold, dark, foggy Thursday night. Suddenly the music started playing and Jack was dancing to his little hearts content. The boys danced around the stage, having the time of their lives, but we all payed attention to Jack. His bright blue singlet flopped all around the stage, his body going with it. When the song from the 60s stopped, we all stood up and cheered for the boys, it’s takes alot of nerves to dance infront of 220 kids the way the boys did. We were so proud and congratulated the boys on their achievements.