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Llanion Cove Sailing

It was the last day of the trip, I felt sad but was looking forward to sailing on a boat in water. The start of the day was okay, but the breakfast was the same as yesterday, beans on toast. The crust was ROCK solid!

After that, we stayed in our dormitories to pack our bags. We had a full hour to pack our bags and Luke did it in a flash!  Then, we started to gather around in the stone circle to know about the activities we were doing. Most people knew what we were doing (somehow) but some people didn’t. We got in our groups and we were going Sailing . The instructors name was Sam and we headed down to the water where all the equipment is. The most annoying thing was that you have to put on a wet suit and those things are a nightmare to put on! We walked to the changing rooms and put on our wet suits on. But that wasn’t the only thing we had to put on we also had to put on a thin called bouncy jacket, I had no clue what this thing was. At least, it was easier to put on than a wet suit.

The instructor Sam showed us the boats and we had to get in a group of 3 in each boat. I got in a group with Tom from Tavernspite and Tom from Templeton. We took our boats into the water and hopped in. I was steering first and the others were paddling. We were playing tag in the water using a football and we were it! We were allowed to tag people once we got to a certain point in the water. We kept on getting sucked onto the shallow part and I kept on having to go out of the boat to push the boat out of the shallow area. I swapped with steering into paddling because Tom kept shouting at me for being a bad sailor. The steering part was quite relaxed but tom kept on shouting at me. I didn’t know if there was another way to control the steering! We eventually got to the point and were able to tag some people. Our first sight that was closest to us were Ellie, Megan and Caitlin I wasn’t very sure though. We were able to tag them by throwing the ball at them, but then we got sucked in again and Tom from Templeton pushed us back out. It was quite funny when the team we tagged dropped the ball in the water and they took quite long just to get it. We kept on going away from the taggers but they eventually got the ball and started to come for us! They successfully catched up with us and threw it at us but then we just threw it back at them and it bounced off in the water and off we went to run away! We ran away, then just chilled for a bit  but then we got sucked in again! Someone had to get out and I think that was me. After a bit, Sam helped a lot of people out of the shallow are because they were stuck and then it was the end. He got us all in his boat and tied all of the other boats with string or rope. We went back to land in his fast automatic boat and it started to rain. It was horrible! I felt cold, tired and couldn’t move my legs. We got of the boat and i felt terrible I ran after putting my boat back. I couldn’t wait until we got in the changing rooms and got in the shower. It was so hot! It felt life saving and i could literally stand under the shower for the rest of my life (that would be a bit stupid though). I got into my normal clothes. But, this wasn’t the end of the activity. There was this other game after the sailing (I forgot what it was called) but it was fun. It was to test your balance and what you have to do is put weight of your foot on something and lie back. I think it was sailing but the sailing we did i think was kayaking. I got the record of 1 minute and 36 seconds. The sailing was a lot like canoeing just with a steering part to it. Finally it was the end, Sailing was my favourite activity.

 

 

Disco at Llanion Cove, Pembroke Dock!

It was fun! REALLY FUN.  At first the room/disco was really light and it didn’t seem like a disco but as the evening carried on, it was really energetic and exciting! And by that I mean ENERGETIC AND EXCITING. I was dancing at first with Megan, Nia, Jessica and Teagan but I saw Mili, Brooke, Grace, Wiktoria and Anna over in the corner not really doing anything so I decided to go over there and dance with them! Brooke really got into it but Grace particularily didn’t like it I think so I just left them be.

At about 7:20 PM, my feet were hurting really badly so I was relieved that Mrs Ellis, (Caroline we call her,) got me a chair and I did some sitting down dances! I’m also quite sad that my favourite song, Look What You Made Me Do by TS (aka Taylor Swift the best singer in the world!) didn’t come on but there were some other really good songs in there too for example: Despacito (Remix) by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber), Runaway (U&I) by Galantis and You Don’t Know Me by Jax Jones (feat. RAYE).

At about 8:00 there was this really good song that came on, (well it was more like a Remix that the DJs had put together!) by one of my favourite singers Anne Marie, that had only recently released her new song Ciao Adios. (Ciao Adios is in Spanish so I don’t technically know what it means, I think it my goodbye I’m done or something?!) And I didn’t want to dance like crazy out there and be like a lunatic so I popped into the Gentlemen’s toilets while it was vacant and I could still hear the song so I did some streetdancing in the toilets!! (Which some people don’t find very amusing, but only SOME people!) and I came out when the song had ended.

At about 9:00 PM Mrs Arthur who was also accompanying us in the Disco said that it was 2 minutes before the Disco had to stop. I was GUTTED, and I mean GUTTED. The final song was Cheerleader by OMI and even though my feet were hurting I had one last dance with some of my friends from Tav and Templeton! (Actually it was only one friend from Templeton that I knew really well. She is called Elena and she is really nice!) The music stopped and I was GUUUUUUUUUTED but I had a good laugh and it was a really fun disco! (One of the best ones! Maybe it was ‘Simply The Best’ by Tina Turner!! See how I did that there?!)

We all walked out of the disco on time, at 9:00 PM, (maybe like 1-5 minutes past or something though. I can’t be that precise with timing all the time you know!) and headed back to our dormitories. When I got back to my dorm, I was so excited to get to my room because I was EXHAUSTED. (I slept in Room B4 with Harry Billingham, Ruben Morgan and Noah Lovidge.) They ALL said they had this really weird disease called dance fever, (Maybe I had never heard of it before or maybe they were making it up! Either way I didn’t have dance fever, I had a cold and bad feet!) Anyways the disco was really fun and I couldn’t wait to get home tomorrow because I would get to see all my AMAZING family again!

 

But I enjoyed every single bit of the trip!

 

By Cian