ROCK UP!

Rock climbing is really cool, in fact it made me conquer my fear of heights.

The first thing we had to do was read all twelve rules together. Next, Geoff

gave us 20 seconds to get into groups of 3.  I was teamed up with Kyrah-Lee

and Jackson.

Once Geoff had shown us what to do we had to go and work together to put

our harness on. Kyrah-Lee told me that I could go first, so I put on the harness.

When I was climbing I was so scared that I was going to fall, but luckily my

teammates were cheering me on and supporting me by shouting out good

compliments.

If we did something wrong like not doing the harness properly we would have

to do 5 push ups and my team did not want to do that, so we tried to not to do

anything wrong and tried hard to follow all the rules. When one person is

climbing you can not go on the mats, only if you are the one who is climbing.

My team got three turns each and Savana’s group got seven turns.  I really

enjoyed climbing and conquering my fears. My favorite part was when Geoff

taught us how to abseil. I was not afraid because it looked easy at first, but

then when I actually had to do it, it was so scary that I didn't want to let go,

but I had to.

I  had soooooooooo much fun that I would love to do it again. I had the best

day and I have learnt that if you are afraid of heights you can give it a try

anyway and have fun!

Taison Taihia