Youth Worker Reflection (Sagele Palaamo).
Late last year I went with 5 of the boys to BMAC and were apart of the PEAK JOURNEY for one week . it was a long and challenging trip with many different activities, that started from national park and went all the way to new Plymouth. The fist day started with a mountain bike ride through the 42 triverse track which didn’t start of to well with one of the boy poping their tyres and then another crashing and bukling his frount tyre which was pretty funny, but then we had to turn around and go back to change the tyre, then had to road bike right round to owhanga where we camped for the night, when we arrived everyone was tired. Every night we got to choose a leader for the next day who was responsible of waking everyone up and making sure everyone was ready for the day, and were safe during the activites. One of the activities that I will remember was canoeing, it was hard. In the past most groups had done this last leg of the journey in three days but the boys were determined to finish it in two so we could get home early. on the Saturday we canoed all afternoon right until eight at night. We stopped and set up camp on the side of the river. The next day we got up at about four in the morning just so we could get a head start, and finish. Along the way we got to see a lot of the country and a lot of goats where we stoped sometimes and tried to chase down and catch but were unsuccessful but was good fun. Overall it was a really good experience looking back on it now, and when we got our maps of how far we travelled, it was good to see it on papper, we covered 270km in five days, after going through it, I see why its called the journey.
Robert - Peak Journey Participant:We did canoeing, road biking, mountain biking and rafting. I enjoyed the stuggle of waking up early in the mornings to do more adventures an also doing new obstales. I learned that you can never do things alone and how having people to support is good and not been weak. Also that there are hard things in life that takes focus and determination to succed. I think I now see God in nature too that used to be weird for me.
Amos - Peak Journey Participant:
Doing Peak Journey at BMAC
was a very great experience for me because the hard work you put in was worth
it when you get to the finish. We all got skinny from the exercize and now have
bigger limits to what we can achieve. This trip has helped me feel confident in
my future as part of the ARU development program.
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