This morning everyone seemed very tired and sleepy, we were exhausted from yesterday’s activities. We were woken at 7:30 and duty group even earlier at 7:15! Wednesday had slept in the corridor, her roommates had been snoring and coughing and just being annoying so she went with her blanket and sat on the chair outside her room until Ms. Hodgett brought her a mattress a few hours later (LOL).
Breakfast was really good and yummy! We had a cooked breakfast (bacon, beans and mini waffles), then we went into the common room and watched CBeebies. We watched the Tweenies which made a change to watching Judge Judy for most of the week. Then we split up into our different groups to find out what we were doing today. We were very happy that Mike had decided we were going to go sea level traversing instead of climbing another mountain that would have been too evil.
When we had all finished packing and getting all our gear on, we scrambled into the van, it was really quiet because everyone was half asleep. We got there and had a 10 minute walk down to the cliffs. We had some food while mike was setting up this rope course round some rocks. It didn’t look that difficult but once we got started it became tougher than we thought. Katie Hatt was so scared; she was reduced to tears before she had even started.
At the end of the course Wednesday barber’s foot managed to wiggle free of her shoe and it fell down on the rocks below. Mike had to climb down and retrieve it, even though Wednesday seemed to be doing better without it!
Though the course was rather hard most of our group managed to complete again, it was quite fun! However Gabby was stuck at the end of the course and caused a hug traffic jam because she couldn’t get down on to the ledge below.
Mike then unhooked all the ropes and we moved round to some other rocks further along the cliffs. Wednesday seemed to have a heart attack every time someone slipped. We had to do some quite big leaps across the sea which was a bit scary. Luckily no one fell in the water but lots of people kept slipping over and had quite a few scratches.

At the end of climbing the rocks, Mike told us that if any of us wanted to jump in we could. There were about four people who were really brave and jumped in straight away like Abbey Watkins, me (Niamh Elstone), Wednesday Barber, Jack Laffargue and Alfie Hatt. Once we got in we realised how absolutely crazy it was because the water was so freezing!
I (Christina Swaby), Gabby and Katie Hatt took a lot longer as none of us wanted to get our trainers wet or get cold but eventually I took up the courage to jump in and everyone else followed behind me.
As some of us got a bit warmer and more confident we started jumping on some high ledges! When everyone had jumped in and realised the stupidity in swimming in the Welsh sea we headed to the shortcut through the field and headed to the van to get changed.
The girls had to change behind the smallest bush ever in the middle of a field whilst the boys were on the other side further down almost in view of us :s. Everyone was finding it hard to change with a towel wrapped around us as the wind was very strong and came at the most awkward of times! We were all shivering so much and were more than happy when we got back to the van and finished off the rest of our hot chocolate. The journey home was simply a time to sleep and to eat food. When we got back we rinsed all of our clothes that had been in sea water. Once we had dealt with our clothes and hung them in the drying room, we ran to our rooms to get our towels and shampoo and went straight to the showers! That was the best part of the day. After we had gotten dressed and were happy and warm we had dinner and ate the best banoffee pie ever!

By Mike Niamh Elstone and Christina Swaby

Woke up to a cold morning at ten past seven and got dressed. Then we went down to a breakfast of sausages, spaghetti and eggy bread. We were then informed that the task for the day was to climb Snowdon. We then got our equipment ready and set off. After 15 minutes in the min bus we arrived at the bottom of the mountain (350ft above sea level) and started to walk up Snowdon. We were left to navigate with only a map. After we had walked for about 10 minutes, mike started telling us about the legends of Snowdon and the lakes around us .As we reached the first lake mike pointed out a pipe that was in the James Bond film “the world is not enough.” A couple of minutes later he started to talk to us about the plants in the area such as a weird type of moss which soaked up the water from the streams and when dry, served as an natural antiseptic for the people in the dark ages and the mines from the 1800s . Then about a mile later we sat down and mike talked about the copper crusher. This was a ruined factory that would have removed waste from the copper by crushing it. They did this to make the copper easier to move. We then continued to the second lake where we sat down and had our lunch. Then we continued on up a steep slope were people started to moan and groan. The weather started to turn bad and both the rain and the wind started to pick up. We then had a quick rest and climbed to the blue lake. We were told the lake was called this because the miners mined copper in that area so the copper reacted with the lake to make copper sulphate which is a blue colour therefore affecting the colour of the lake. We then did another ascent. On the way up we saw a wooden pole with hundreds of copper and silver coins placed in the pole. This was supposed to fend off dragons because the coins would shine in the dragon’s eyes. We then made the finale ascent to the peak of the mountain where every body started to fall over because of the snow and ice on the path. About 30minutes later we bumped into Mr Whites group who were hiding from the wind under a wall by the train that went to the summit. As we approached the peak the wind grew very strong and started to push us about the place. Katie got worried by this as she was afraid of blowing down the mountain. We reached the top and took a group photo before making a hasty retreat and had a quick break before starting our descent from the summit…
We went down the mountain following the rail track. As we made our way down the mountain we passed sheep. The sheep were friendly especially towards Wednesday, who ended up talking to them. By this time we were all aching and feeling ill. We made it to the bottom of the mountain and waited for Lou to arrive with the mini bus. We got bored and cold so we got out the emergency tent and huddled in it. Lou arrived an hour later. We arrived home safely yet tired and had dinner.

By Fraser Bore and Jack Laffargue