Diary 2: Day 1

I had spent a week preparing and packing my bags to go to the Matainui Islands, and now we were finally boarding the bus to leave to Kawhia harbor. Everyone was brimming with energy before we left, faces were filled with excitement.

It was a rough drive to kawhia harbour with bumps, twists, and turns but we finally managed to get there. Our smiles suddenly faded as we relized who was flying the plane, Samuel. "This can't be right," many people shouted. "He's only 11 years old!" Eventually we boreded the plane and got ready for take off. "Please fascin your seat belts as we are about to be taking off, thank you," Samuel called out through his microphone. The majority of us were still in shock from hearing we were being piloted by an 11 year old kid.

"Finally about 10 minutes until we arrive," James said excitedly. As everyone was chatting among themselves suddenly, everyone began to float up as though there was no gravity then suddenly we fell back down into our seats and the plane began plumbeting towards the ground.

Everyone was screaming and a few people were in tears, but above all the noise you could hear Samuel cry out "I NEVER PASSED MY TEST! AAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!"

We finally crash landed into the ocean, people were crying, everybody was in shock. There was no time to grab their packs for most people so everybody began swimming towards shore. It was about 1000 metres away so the majority of us needed help.

We finally reached the shore line and everybody began drying themselves off. "Oh no!" some body called out. "Ben, Jasser and Jordand are missing...

Eventually everyone finally got over the shoch that people were missing and got into their groups to decide what to do next. "Oi Malik, Mac, guess what I found out!" James said with an eager grin on his face. "The back of the plane is still sticking up above the water so their must be an air bubble in it!" "So," Mac said. "I bet you if we swam out their, there would be our bags in the plane, and we could catch our breath back in the air bubble." "Great! Malik you look after the stuff we've got now and me and james will go out to the plane."

Soon their plan was under way. Malik stayed on the shoreline and Mac and James swam out to the plane. Josiah, Sam, and Leon the followed James and Mac to see what they were doing.

After what seemed lik forever, James, Mac, Josiah, Sam, and Leon finally retured to shore. As Malik hurriedly lookied at what James and Mac brought, James went over to Josiah, Sam, and Leon and said "You guys owe us a share of what you guys got because it was our idea to go to the plane." James then came back to us with an extra parachute pack. "Sweet! We've got another 10 items, a ripped parachute, and a parachute!" Malik said excitedly. "We should find a place to stay at for the night." James said. "Lets go!"

We then set off to find a stream were we could camp next too, get fresh water, and be able to clean ourselves of all the dirt we had on us. We pitched the tent and set up a fire and got ready for a rough nights sleep.