We set off to the Waihi Mine Trip at 8:30am in 2 luxurious coach(bus)!!!We had a 2 hour bus ride arghhhh!!!I never feel sick when I go on long rides.After 1 hour we got off !!!yay!!!finally when we got of I saw this very big dump truck it was bigger than me and the tyres,it was even bigger than the teachers!!!After looking at the dump trucks and the mine we had to go back on the bus arghhhh. 2-3 minutes later we got off at a museum it was a the Waihi Museum!!!When we got in side a instructor named Debbie.and guided us through the museum and about how the miner mined in olden days. After looking at a mini slideshow thing we got split up in groups and had to do actives which was relative to olden day mining. We also saw mine shaft which was used back in the olden days. After the Waihi we went and had lunch which at a park and in the park their was a rocket.After the yummy lunch we got back on the boring bus we went to the mine at the mine we saw the other classes.Finally we arrived at mine !!!YAY!!! but we were not allowed to go into the open cast mine because we meant to be 18 and over. A miner named Phil told us about the mine and the story about and what they are going to do after they are done taking out all the gold n sliver. Guess what they are going to do???They are going to full it up with water and it is going to be as deep as the sky tower that is in Auckland.The maximum sound that the machines was allowed to make was 50. When Phil tested us how loud we were when we shouted gold. We were 113 !!!WOW!!! !!!LOUD!!!.After we he told us about the mine we had to go somewhere and we saw where the waste rocks went and where the gold n sliver was took out of the rocks.We went back back to the mine and Phil took us in this room where there was vests and helmets.We took some pictures in our vests and helmets next Sophia and Nikaylyn got chosen to talk on a news report about the mine but it was not real.We then entered a mine that Phil recorded for us and it felt like it was a real mine and in the video he told us what the safety rules were.After we got out of the mine and put our vests and helmet back we went into a classroom where we saw the photos that Phil took of us and we also got gold but it was not real it was chocolate.After it was time to but really it was not we went on this walk called the windows walk it was not very far it was actually really short and while we were walking one of my friend was writing in her dairy about the walk and her name is Xixi.We went through wet,muddy and tunnels.When I entered in the tunnel,Its so dark! Couldn't see anything!
!!!AHHHH!!! I couldn't see that much because my torch light wasn't bright
enough. !!!WOW!!! then the most amazing thing happened there little blue thing hanging fro the ceiling it was glow worms! OMG! After that walk we went back on
the bus back to school! I actually enjoyed the windows walk because we all different types of things and also saw the stream and how long it went.Then it was time to go back on the way back Jessica,Xixi and Me we played I spy but I did not play very long because I was on my phone,After 2 boring hours we were back at school!!!YAY!!! Then we got off the bus we had to go back to the whanau Then from there we were dismissed!!!
WELL IT WAS A REALLY FUN DAY !!!
I wish I can go back some other time!!!!!!!!
