Experience 1: The Oceania orienteering championships
And we were off to Australia, on another one of our orienteering adventures, this time to the Oceania Orienteering Championships in Tasmania. It was an orienteering festival week an a half, with 7 events over 10 days. It was a great series of events, and I got third place in one of the middle events!
Experience 2: My geocaching birthday
On the days leading up to my birthday, I spent ages thinking on what it was going to be this time. It had to be better than all my others, (ukulele festival, mountain-biking, secret code treasure hunt, action world) but I ouldn't think of anything. Then my dad came up with the idea of a geocaching weekend birthday party, which I thought sounded great! I had a great time, indeed better than all my other birthdays! You can read about it in more detail here.
Experience 3: Mathex 2015
At my school, since term 2, I had been chosen for the school Mathex team, along with thirty or so other people. Mathex is one of the only academic competitive sports in the world, a bit like sprinting crossed with puzzle solving. You are given a hard maths question. Once you solve it, someone on your team has to sprint 100 metres to the judges, who then give you the next question. Each question gives your team 5 points. First to 100 wins! Anyway, I made it into the team of 4 and on the night (with over 100 schools competing) our team came third, my school's first time to get a place in over 10 years!
Experience 4: The P6 adventure race
This year was my fifth P6, and my friend Cameron came with me to do it so we had a team of three. Of course it was better than all the other P6's I had done, because they just keep getting better. After 6 hours of hard work, plodding, pedalling, pushing, and tubing, we were rewarded with first place in our category and about 8th overall! Yahoo!
So overall, another great adventurous year, better than all the others before it!
-- Ryan
Experience 2: My geocaching birthday
On the days leading up to my birthday, I spent ages thinking on what it was going to be this time. It had to be better than all my others, (ukulele festival, mountain-biking, secret code treasure hunt, action world) but I ouldn't think of anything. Then my dad came up with the idea of a geocaching weekend birthday party, which I thought sounded great! I had a great time, indeed better than all my other birthdays! You can read about it in more detail here.
Experience 3: Mathex 2015
At my school, since term 2, I had been chosen for the school Mathex team, along with thirty or so other people. Mathex is one of the only academic competitive sports in the world, a bit like sprinting crossed with puzzle solving. You are given a hard maths question. Once you solve it, someone on your team has to sprint 100 metres to the judges, who then give you the next question. Each question gives your team 5 points. First to 100 wins! Anyway, I made it into the team of 4 and on the night (with over 100 schools competing) our team came third, my school's first time to get a place in over 10 years!
Experience 4: The P6 adventure race
This year was my fifth P6, and my friend Cameron came with me to do it so we had a team of three. Of course it was better than all the other P6's I had done, because they just keep getting better. After 6 hours of hard work, plodding, pedalling, pushing, and tubing, we were rewarded with first place in our category and about 8th overall! Yahoo!
So overall, another great adventurous year, better than all the others before it!
-- Ryan
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