We have had a great time with the Aussie students on this year’s Safari.We tried all manner of means to scare them.
We put them in a jet boat in a rainstorm & drove it at 80kph. Once the pain has gone, it does wonders for the complexion, or so I’ve heard.
We strapped pieces of wood to their feet & sent them off down a mountain in a blizzard. We returned to the bus to find it snowed in & had to be escorted down the mountain by using a snow plow as the reserve breaking mechanism. We then tried cooking them in hot pools.
We then tried scaring them with a haka, & steaming then in a geyser, before sending them down a concrete track on a piece of plastic. The luge did account for a few cuts & abrasions, as the driving was less than sedate.
Our next part of the devious plan was to send them down a hillside inside a plastic ball that had no means of breaking.Some of them chose another ordeal by launching themselves from a perfectly safe platform & dipping themselves in the Waikato River some 47m below.
Our last effort was to acquaint them with the realities of war by taking them to the Waiouru Military Museum. I’m not sure how much of the message got through, as they used the tank outside as gymnasium equipment.
The smiles got bigger, the more we threw at them, so I guess we succeeded.
It has been a pleasure to be involved with a great bunch of young Australians, & Kiwis. I hope that their time in the programme has brought more understanding, & our countries a little bit closer.