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	Youth Trust Summer Programme '07	860 dagen geleden
	This summer we have been involved in a variety of activities. These have been rewarding and good fun. Mountain Biking Colin McPhie We went to Aberfoyle on the 11th of July to go Mountain biking. It was quite a good experience but tiring, in the end we made it. I enjoyed trying to direct my way about and keeping up. I thought that it would have been an easy journey but I was proven wrong. I learned that I have endurance to keep going on and to push my body to further limits. I enjoyed the whole experience it made my summer holidays better rather than working. Gorge Walking We went gorge walking in Carbeth in an area called the Devils poolpit.the gorge was between 10 and 100 ft deep we start the walk at 12pm and finished at 5pm the gorge walk was really fun and exciting. “I’m Gary the chairperson on the Youth Trust Advisory Group. This summer we took part in a summer programme in which we went gorge walking. I expected it to be jumping waterfalls, but it was more swimming through a gorge. Gorge walking was brilliant and was a good laugh. Gorge building was a great team building activity. He best bit was the whole experience; the highlight was basically just the full day. The gorge walking took place at the Devils Pulpit and the instructors were from DRUM Adventure. I got to know the group a bit more and learned to work in a team and how to climb waterfalls. After Gorge walking I feel more confident about trying new things, this gave me something to do during the summer holidays and made the summer holidays more enjoyable.” Drew Hamilton – Gorge Walking My name is drew Hamilton I am a member of the Youth Trust. My expectations of gorge walking was walking in a puddle, but you we were mostly swimming, it was a great experience. The best part was when we started jumping from the cliff into the water! The water was a green colour and the bit we were jumping into was very deep. I also enjoyed swimming in very deep water it was cool! The two instructors who took us were both called Stuart one of them stole my inhaler! This experience made the summer holidays much more fun! Xscape We went to an activity centre in Renfrewshire call Xscape. We did tobogganing which was really fun as we were sledging down the hill in the snow. We also did the Skypark fan drop and rock climbing. “The Youth Trust all took a visit to Xscape on the 18th of July 2007. Our second activity was tobogganing; tobogganing is a sport that you play on snow. Tobogganing is a similar sport to sledging, when you sit on a sledge and slide down a snowy bit of hill. I enjoyed the activity I felt that I had learned something new like how to steer down a hill using your own strength. However the day ended with a crash Bang wallop! We all skidded down the hill and crashed through the net and landed in a heap! I looked up in a fit of laughter and my life flashed before my eyes. A mallet fell onto my face, my mouth was gushing of blood, I looked over to my friend Karen and seen that she was in pain, she had twisted her leg, so me & Karen were in the first aid room getting fixed. Overall the day was fun and if I had never went to escape I would have been sitting about doing nothing. So thank you Youth Trust for saving my holiday and making it fun!” Jenny Clark – Sky Park We went to the Sky Park at Xscape one the 18th July 2007. At the Sky Park we got strapped into harnesses and we had to make our way round the course that was suspended from the ceiling and was 50ft from the floor. When we got back to the beginning we had to do different things like going round backwards, closing our eyes and just doing it with our feet. My best bit of this activity was at the end when we did the fan drop. The instructors made us shout things when we were jumping off like “Haggis & Tatties”. I had never been to Xscape before so I didn’t know what to expect, and I don’t think I have got over my little fear of heights yet. I think that the summer programme with the Youth Trust was good because I would probably be in my bed other wise. Kayaking/Canoeing Dingy Sailing Ashleigh Clark I went to the place beside the base with all the bad nuclear bombs and the glowing green fish. The water was very salty and belonged to the river Clyde. I was sailing in a thing boat with Dave in the water with green fish. I did this because it was the Youth Trust summer programme and my group needed a break after the intense and hard work we had done that year, so it was good to get away from the office, we done this in the year 2007. I felt great during it and I had a great experience. When we fell out the dingy and were dragged for miles by the boat that was the best bit, and after our dragging we sang songs and totally feel out deliberately. Cheers for a great time. xxx sailing – David Wardlaw “Me David Wardlaw the 1st and Ashleigh Clark were two of the members of the Youth Trust that went sailing one day during the summer with the summer programme. Me and Ash shared a boat it was a larf  We fell in countless times. The water was salty and wasn’t too cold. As soon as we’d fall we’d shoot back in the boat. But one time I couldn’t get in so we hung on the sides and I grabbed the rope to pull me in, but it ended up being the sail rope, so it tightened the sail and shoot me and Ash up the water! It was so funny; this trip benefited me because it got me out the house from doing nothing to being in the water having a good time with my friends Tubing Karen Hastings The West Dunbartonshire Youth Trust enjoyed an exciting day out at the Bearsden ski slopes. We participated in a one hour session at the slope. Tubing is basically sitting in a rubber ring and sliding down a big steep hill and travelling up a quarter pipe. Some people faced their fears and some people had participated before. The highlight of the day was when we experimented on a new way of going down the hill. Thankfully no one was injured trying out this new move. I thought we would have gone down the hill faster but the sun was out and so the slope wasn’t as wet. Over all the day was exciting, experimental, and everyone enjoyed it. The summer programme benefited us as it gave us something to do rather than having duvet days throughout the summer.
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