Emma took in the sights around her. They were in a pretty wood clearing, with soft green gras, grass coating the floors, millions of trees, of all shapes and sizes, and a small stream which lead down to what looked like a lake in the distance. There was a kabine at one side of the clearing, and a willow baum near the other. Small bunnies and squirrels scampered through the grass, and Schmetterlinge fluttered around their heads. One landed on Emma's flipper and she smiled and looked at it. It had turquoise colored wings, and a dark blue body. A few Sekunden later, it took off into the air.
"Wow........." Ashley managed, staring at the clearing his eyes wide with amazement. Emma noticed a tiny bit of clearing, separated from the rest of it.
Our tent is definatley going there. She thought.
"Ok, so before we do anything, I'll explain a few things." Miss Chambers announced, standing in front of the kids. "We are the only people here, but Du still have to behave. The kabine has the toilets, a phone, and tons of Essen in." She began. "Don't go wandering off without the group oder a teacher, and remember to stay safe." She told them. The kids nodded in response.
"Okay, so here are your tents. Try and set them up yourself, but if Du can't then we'll help." Mr Hague explained. Kowalski put his flipper up. "What is Kowalski?" He asked.
"Where's the coach going?" Kowalski asked nodding towards the stationary coach.
"It's going to go about a quarter of a mile back from here, so it doesn't disturb the nature, oder the proper camping atmosphere." Dom, the other teacher, answered. The kids went and picked up a tent. Emma and Ryan got one of the bigger ones, and discussed where they should put it.
"I think it should go in that secluded bit near the back." Emma said, pointing to the separate bit.
"Sure, it looks like a nice spot." Ryan agreed cheerfully. They took their tent over to that spot and put it down.
"Urm....." Emma remarked, staring at the heap of tent thoughtfully.
"Have Du set up a tent before?" Ryan asked, picking up the tent pegs.
"Nope." Emma replied, looking confused. "Have you?"
"Yup." Ryan replied brightly. He set up part of the tent, and helped Emma with the rest of it. In about 5 minutes, the dark green tent was standing proudly Von itself. Emma peeked inside curiously, and saw that there was plenty of Weltraum for both of them. She climbed in, with her massive bag, and took her sleeping bag out. Ryan climbed in behind her, and put his sleeping bag on the right side of the tent. Emma then put hers on the left side of the tent and started to unpack her stuff. She put her kissen at the oben, nach oben of the sleeping bag, and wondered what she should take out. She took her cuddly husky, Lulu out, and sat her on the pillow, then she put her phone and headphones, her sketch book, her pencil case, and her book on the sleeping bag. She blushed when she realised that Ryan was looking at Lulu curiously.
"She's my favourite toy, I've had her for 6 years now." Emma explained, patting Lulu on the head.
"That's ok Em, I've got a toy like that too." Ryan told her, taking a small brown teddy bär out of his bag. It had a little red bow around it's neck, and had big green eyes.
"Aw, it's cute." Emma exclaimed, a smile tugging at her face as she stroked it's head .
"Thanks, his name's Ben." Ryan said, smiling at her. "What's the name of your one?" He asked, his brown eyes falling on the husky again.
"Lulu." Emma replied, looking back at her.
"Nice name." Ryan remarked, petting Lulu's head. Emma smiled in response and her attention was caught Von a noise outside. The two penguins poked their heads out, and saw the teacher were telling them all to come to the for a minute. All of the penguins went over to the teachers curiously.
"Here's the activity sheets, for what we'll be doing for the Weiter five days." Miss Chambers explained, having little sheets to the kids. Ryan took one, and looked over it.
"So what are we gonna be doing?" Emma asked.
"Today, is a free day, to get settled into our tents and stuff." Ryan began. "Tomorrow, we're doing a bit of hiking, up a hügel nearby, on Friday, we're horse riding at a stable about a mile away, on Saturday, we'e canoeing, Sunday, we're swimming and Monday is the last day, so we'll have another free day, then we pack and go home." He explained, folding the sheet, and putting it in the tent.
"Cool, so what should we do today?" Emma wondered, looking around the clearing. She realised that she was blushing a little bit.
"Hmmm........climb some trees?" Ryan suggested.
"Good idea!" Emma agreed. She saw Rochelle, Ash and Kowalski talking near three tents near the middle, and she and Ryan walked over to them.
"Oh Hey Du two." Rochelle greeted, looking very bright and cheery.
"Hey guys." Emma replied, smiling at all of them.
"Did Du lot get your tents up ok?" Ryan asked curiously.
"Urm......well I needed some help from the teacher...." Kowalski admitted sheepishly.
"I found it real easy." Ashley chimed in happily. "But I have been camping before." He added.
"It was alright for me." Rochelle replied smugly. Kowalski gave her a dark look, and looked at the floor.
"So, we were thinking of climbing a few trees, do Du guys wanna come?" Emma asked hopefully.
"Sure that sounds fun." Ashley agreed. Rochelle and Kowalski nodded in response, and they began looking around the clearing for trees to climb. Ryan spotted a good one, and pointed towards it. Emma ran over to it eagerly and pulled herself onto the first branch. From there on, there was tons of different branches that she could get onto. She picked the nearest one, and climbed up it. Behind her, Rochelle had just climbed onto the one Weiter to her. Ashley climbed onto a higher up branch with ease, and poor Kowalski looked a bit worried.
"C'mon Kowalski, you'll be ok." Emma encouraged. He climbed to another branch, nearly slipping as he did.
"Woah, be careful lad." Ashley warned him, his face full of alarm. Ryan trailed behind the others, and climbed up to a branch even higher than Ashley.
"Show off." Rochelle remarked, looking up at the tall pinguin jealously. Ryan just grinned and carried on climbing. Ashley was just behind him, followed Von Rochelle, Emma and Kowalski. As they climbed higher, The three in front pulled away from Emma and Kowalski a bit. Emma looked down at the floor, and her eyes widened. They were extremely high up now. She wasn't scared of heights, but she was scared of falling out of the tree. As they climbed even higher, Kowalski overtook Emma, who's feet had decided to anchor to the branch she was on. She looked up at the Weiter branch, which looked extremely thin and unstable, and she closed her eyes. A sick feeling filled her stomach, and held onto the bark of the baum for dear life.
"Em are Du ok?" Ryan asked, poking his head down, trying to find her. He spotted her, and his eyes filled with concern. "You're not scared of heights are you?" He asked. Emma opened her eyes and looked up at him.
"Scared of falling." Emma corrected, still not moving.
"Don't worry, Du won't fall." Ryan reassured her. Emma tried to tell herself this, and she climbed the Weiter one cautiously. Her herz was pounding a hundred times faster than usual, and she slipped. Ryan held out his flippers, looking panicky and Emma grabbed onto them just in time. Emma's herz began to beat even faster, but for a different reason this time. She felt herself go red, as Ryan pulled her up to the oben, nach oben branch. She sat down, and leaned against the bark on the tree, panting a little.
"Are Du ok lass?" Ashley asked worriedly. Emma nodded in response as she calmed down a bit. She poked her head out of the leaves and saw the whole clearing below them. Mr Hague noticed them, and he looked up in astonishment.
"How on earth did Du lot get up there?" He asked, walking closer to the tree.
"Climbed." Ryan replied simply, making the others giggle.
"I mean how did Du get up there so quickly?" He corrected, smiling a little at what Ryan said.
"Climbed quickly." Rochelle answered, bursting into giggles. Mr Hague chuckled a little and watched the penguins.
"Just be careful ok?" He reminded them, going over to Miss Chambers and Dom. They nodded and sat up in the baum for ages, telling jokes, messing around, and chatting. At one point, they tried to make a leaf crown for Rochelle, who didn't look pleased. The ended up just sticking leaves in her hair.
"Hey, stop it!" She giggled, as Ashley and Emma began tickling her with leaves. Kowalski and Ryan joined in, and she held onto the bark, to stop herself from falling as she tired to take the leaves off them. They eventually stopped and she sat up properly again. "Oh Du lot are gonna pay for that." She warned them, looking mischievous.
"Oh really?" Ryan asked, a challenging look on his face.
"Yes. But I won't tell Du when." Rochelle replied, smiling deviously. Emma looked up at the sky,and saw it was still light, but the sun was dropping in the sky.
"Hey what time is it?" She asked, watching the clouds.
"6pm." Kowalski replied, checking his watch.
"Oh my goodness, we've been up here for 4 hours!" Emma exclaimed, shock filling her voice.
"Well time flies when you're having fun." Ryan replied, winking at her.
"Good point." Emma replied, blushing a little. The five penguins decided to climb down, and Emma felt nervous again.
"Do Du want some help down Em?" Ryan asked, noticing the worry in her dark blue eyes.
"Yes please." Emma replied, looking down at the unstable branch below her. "Only for the oben, nach oben ones, I should be ok soon." She added. Ryan nodded and he climbed to the unstable branch, and helped Emma down onto it. They climbed down a few Mehr together, and Emma felt less scared now. "I think I can do this one." She told the taller penguin. He nodded understandingly and she climbed down slowly, with Ryan closely behind her. She felt relieved as her feet reached solid land again.
"You guys were up there for hours." Mr Hague commented, looking at the 5 penguins.
"It was fun up there." Rochelle told him, grinning a little.
"Oh, and at 9pm, we're gathering around a campfire." Mr Hague told them.
"Ooh, what will we be doing?" Emma asked.
"Telling ghost stories, roasting marshmallows, y'know, the normal camp things." He replied.
"Sounds fun." Kowalski remarked, smiling in excitement.
"Yup, me, Miss Chambers and Dom, are setting it up now." Mr Hague told them, before walking off.
"Hmm, we've still got 3 hours, what should we do?" Ashley wondered.
"Hm..... well I'm gonna do a bit of drawing." Emma decided rushing to the tent, and coming back out with her sketch book, and pencil case. She sat down Von the tree, and stared into the clouds.
"I think I'll go and climb some Mehr trees." Rochelle decided.
"Ooh, same here." Ashley replied, and the two penguins walked off. Kowalski and Ryan sat down with Emma, and Kowalski whipped his clipboard out of nowhere. Emma gave him a strange look, and went back to drawing. Ryan went back to the tent, and came back out, a pack of crisps and a piece of paper in his flipper.
"Whatcha doing?" Emma asked looking up from he picture.
"I'm gonna try and draw a skateboard." He replied cheerfully. He sat down again, and Emma let him borrow her pencils and colours. Emma was drawing her transformer character again, and Ryan watched her curiously. Emma looked up, and saw how close he was sitting to her, which made her stomach fill with butterflies. She smiled shyly at him, and looked back at her picture. She looked to her left, where Kowalski was drawing a nearby squirrel. The three penguins sat there drawing for hours, and the sky began getting darker. A while later, they heard the teachers call everyone.
"It's time for the campfire." Miss Chambers announced. All of the penguins dotted around the clearing, got up, and followed the teachers through the trees to the campfire.
"Wow........." Ashley managed, staring at the clearing his eyes wide with amazement. Emma noticed a tiny bit of clearing, separated from the rest of it.
Our tent is definatley going there. She thought.
"Ok, so before we do anything, I'll explain a few things." Miss Chambers announced, standing in front of the kids. "We are the only people here, but Du still have to behave. The kabine has the toilets, a phone, and tons of Essen in." She began. "Don't go wandering off without the group oder a teacher, and remember to stay safe." She told them. The kids nodded in response.
"Okay, so here are your tents. Try and set them up yourself, but if Du can't then we'll help." Mr Hague explained. Kowalski put his flipper up. "What is Kowalski?" He asked.
"Where's the coach going?" Kowalski asked nodding towards the stationary coach.
"It's going to go about a quarter of a mile back from here, so it doesn't disturb the nature, oder the proper camping atmosphere." Dom, the other teacher, answered. The kids went and picked up a tent. Emma and Ryan got one of the bigger ones, and discussed where they should put it.
"I think it should go in that secluded bit near the back." Emma said, pointing to the separate bit.
"Sure, it looks like a nice spot." Ryan agreed cheerfully. They took their tent over to that spot and put it down.
"Urm....." Emma remarked, staring at the heap of tent thoughtfully.
"Have Du set up a tent before?" Ryan asked, picking up the tent pegs.
"Nope." Emma replied, looking confused. "Have you?"
"Yup." Ryan replied brightly. He set up part of the tent, and helped Emma with the rest of it. In about 5 minutes, the dark green tent was standing proudly Von itself. Emma peeked inside curiously, and saw that there was plenty of Weltraum for both of them. She climbed in, with her massive bag, and took her sleeping bag out. Ryan climbed in behind her, and put his sleeping bag on the right side of the tent. Emma then put hers on the left side of the tent and started to unpack her stuff. She put her kissen at the oben, nach oben of the sleeping bag, and wondered what she should take out. She took her cuddly husky, Lulu out, and sat her on the pillow, then she put her phone and headphones, her sketch book, her pencil case, and her book on the sleeping bag. She blushed when she realised that Ryan was looking at Lulu curiously.
"She's my favourite toy, I've had her for 6 years now." Emma explained, patting Lulu on the head.
"That's ok Em, I've got a toy like that too." Ryan told her, taking a small brown teddy bär out of his bag. It had a little red bow around it's neck, and had big green eyes.
"Aw, it's cute." Emma exclaimed, a smile tugging at her face as she stroked it's head .
"Thanks, his name's Ben." Ryan said, smiling at her. "What's the name of your one?" He asked, his brown eyes falling on the husky again.
"Lulu." Emma replied, looking back at her.
"Nice name." Ryan remarked, petting Lulu's head. Emma smiled in response and her attention was caught Von a noise outside. The two penguins poked their heads out, and saw the teacher were telling them all to come to the for a minute. All of the penguins went over to the teachers curiously.
"Here's the activity sheets, for what we'll be doing for the Weiter five days." Miss Chambers explained, having little sheets to the kids. Ryan took one, and looked over it.
"So what are we gonna be doing?" Emma asked.
"Today, is a free day, to get settled into our tents and stuff." Ryan began. "Tomorrow, we're doing a bit of hiking, up a hügel nearby, on Friday, we're horse riding at a stable about a mile away, on Saturday, we'e canoeing, Sunday, we're swimming and Monday is the last day, so we'll have another free day, then we pack and go home." He explained, folding the sheet, and putting it in the tent.
"Cool, so what should we do today?" Emma wondered, looking around the clearing. She realised that she was blushing a little bit.
"Hmmm........climb some trees?" Ryan suggested.
"Good idea!" Emma agreed. She saw Rochelle, Ash and Kowalski talking near three tents near the middle, and she and Ryan walked over to them.
"Oh Hey Du two." Rochelle greeted, looking very bright and cheery.
"Hey guys." Emma replied, smiling at all of them.
"Did Du lot get your tents up ok?" Ryan asked curiously.
"Urm......well I needed some help from the teacher...." Kowalski admitted sheepishly.
"I found it real easy." Ashley chimed in happily. "But I have been camping before." He added.
"It was alright for me." Rochelle replied smugly. Kowalski gave her a dark look, and looked at the floor.
"So, we were thinking of climbing a few trees, do Du guys wanna come?" Emma asked hopefully.
"Sure that sounds fun." Ashley agreed. Rochelle and Kowalski nodded in response, and they began looking around the clearing for trees to climb. Ryan spotted a good one, and pointed towards it. Emma ran over to it eagerly and pulled herself onto the first branch. From there on, there was tons of different branches that she could get onto. She picked the nearest one, and climbed up it. Behind her, Rochelle had just climbed onto the one Weiter to her. Ashley climbed onto a higher up branch with ease, and poor Kowalski looked a bit worried.
"C'mon Kowalski, you'll be ok." Emma encouraged. He climbed to another branch, nearly slipping as he did.
"Woah, be careful lad." Ashley warned him, his face full of alarm. Ryan trailed behind the others, and climbed up to a branch even higher than Ashley.
"Show off." Rochelle remarked, looking up at the tall pinguin jealously. Ryan just grinned and carried on climbing. Ashley was just behind him, followed Von Rochelle, Emma and Kowalski. As they climbed higher, The three in front pulled away from Emma and Kowalski a bit. Emma looked down at the floor, and her eyes widened. They were extremely high up now. She wasn't scared of heights, but she was scared of falling out of the tree. As they climbed even higher, Kowalski overtook Emma, who's feet had decided to anchor to the branch she was on. She looked up at the Weiter branch, which looked extremely thin and unstable, and she closed her eyes. A sick feeling filled her stomach, and held onto the bark of the baum for dear life.
"Em are Du ok?" Ryan asked, poking his head down, trying to find her. He spotted her, and his eyes filled with concern. "You're not scared of heights are you?" He asked. Emma opened her eyes and looked up at him.
"Scared of falling." Emma corrected, still not moving.
"Don't worry, Du won't fall." Ryan reassured her. Emma tried to tell herself this, and she climbed the Weiter one cautiously. Her herz was pounding a hundred times faster than usual, and she slipped. Ryan held out his flippers, looking panicky and Emma grabbed onto them just in time. Emma's herz began to beat even faster, but for a different reason this time. She felt herself go red, as Ryan pulled her up to the oben, nach oben branch. She sat down, and leaned against the bark on the tree, panting a little.
"Are Du ok lass?" Ashley asked worriedly. Emma nodded in response as she calmed down a bit. She poked her head out of the leaves and saw the whole clearing below them. Mr Hague noticed them, and he looked up in astonishment.
"How on earth did Du lot get up there?" He asked, walking closer to the tree.
"Climbed." Ryan replied simply, making the others giggle.
"I mean how did Du get up there so quickly?" He corrected, smiling a little at what Ryan said.
"Climbed quickly." Rochelle answered, bursting into giggles. Mr Hague chuckled a little and watched the penguins.
"Just be careful ok?" He reminded them, going over to Miss Chambers and Dom. They nodded and sat up in the baum for ages, telling jokes, messing around, and chatting. At one point, they tried to make a leaf crown for Rochelle, who didn't look pleased. The ended up just sticking leaves in her hair.
"Hey, stop it!" She giggled, as Ashley and Emma began tickling her with leaves. Kowalski and Ryan joined in, and she held onto the bark, to stop herself from falling as she tired to take the leaves off them. They eventually stopped and she sat up properly again. "Oh Du lot are gonna pay for that." She warned them, looking mischievous.
"Oh really?" Ryan asked, a challenging look on his face.
"Yes. But I won't tell Du when." Rochelle replied, smiling deviously. Emma looked up at the sky,and saw it was still light, but the sun was dropping in the sky.
"Hey what time is it?" She asked, watching the clouds.
"6pm." Kowalski replied, checking his watch.
"Oh my goodness, we've been up here for 4 hours!" Emma exclaimed, shock filling her voice.
"Well time flies when you're having fun." Ryan replied, winking at her.
"Good point." Emma replied, blushing a little. The five penguins decided to climb down, and Emma felt nervous again.
"Do Du want some help down Em?" Ryan asked, noticing the worry in her dark blue eyes.
"Yes please." Emma replied, looking down at the unstable branch below her. "Only for the oben, nach oben ones, I should be ok soon." She added. Ryan nodded and he climbed to the unstable branch, and helped Emma down onto it. They climbed down a few Mehr together, and Emma felt less scared now. "I think I can do this one." She told the taller penguin. He nodded understandingly and she climbed down slowly, with Ryan closely behind her. She felt relieved as her feet reached solid land again.
"You guys were up there for hours." Mr Hague commented, looking at the 5 penguins.
"It was fun up there." Rochelle told him, grinning a little.
"Oh, and at 9pm, we're gathering around a campfire." Mr Hague told them.
"Ooh, what will we be doing?" Emma asked.
"Telling ghost stories, roasting marshmallows, y'know, the normal camp things." He replied.
"Sounds fun." Kowalski remarked, smiling in excitement.
"Yup, me, Miss Chambers and Dom, are setting it up now." Mr Hague told them, before walking off.
"Hmm, we've still got 3 hours, what should we do?" Ashley wondered.
"Hm..... well I'm gonna do a bit of drawing." Emma decided rushing to the tent, and coming back out with her sketch book, and pencil case. She sat down Von the tree, and stared into the clouds.
"I think I'll go and climb some Mehr trees." Rochelle decided.
"Ooh, same here." Ashley replied, and the two penguins walked off. Kowalski and Ryan sat down with Emma, and Kowalski whipped his clipboard out of nowhere. Emma gave him a strange look, and went back to drawing. Ryan went back to the tent, and came back out, a pack of crisps and a piece of paper in his flipper.
"Whatcha doing?" Emma asked looking up from he picture.
"I'm gonna try and draw a skateboard." He replied cheerfully. He sat down again, and Emma let him borrow her pencils and colours. Emma was drawing her transformer character again, and Ryan watched her curiously. Emma looked up, and saw how close he was sitting to her, which made her stomach fill with butterflies. She smiled shyly at him, and looked back at her picture. She looked to her left, where Kowalski was drawing a nearby squirrel. The three penguins sat there drawing for hours, and the sky began getting darker. A while later, they heard the teachers call everyone.
"It's time for the campfire." Miss Chambers announced. All of the penguins dotted around the clearing, got up, and followed the teachers through the trees to the campfire.