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BACK FROM CAMP!!!

SUPER FUN!!

All that you can ever think of, we did :D abseiling, rafting(not really.. but so what?!) and the challenge pole! And the instructors were like, one of the best you would ever come across, i like the debriefs, especially meaningful for me.

DAY ONE

Got at school like at 8? Then we were told that the bus only comes at 11.... so we waited lor. Then at like 9 plus we met our instructors and we made our flag. We called ourselves "High 5" because well, we are the 5th group and we are high! lol. Our instructor was vanessa! Went to Jalan Baterhra or how you spell it and had a briefing on camp rules as usual. Then we had lunch, learnt the new hungry cheer. I have to say the cheers in this camp are completely oringinal, nothing much taken from scouts or any other camps. That was very refreshing!
After that, it rained..... so our high elements got cut short. Meanwhile, we played some station games like the caterpillar game where you had a balloon in btw the 21 of us and picked up bottles. Also, we had the bench game where you had to arrange yourselves to a given order without talking, and falling! Well our instructor sort of... closed one eye then 2 eye then we got through haha.
Then, we had our high elements when the rain stopped! Challenge pole! We had to climb atop a single pole, look at a bar hanging in midair, and jump, and catch! Well i was the first one up against this challenge pole! I climbed up the pole real slowly, later fall like that paiseh mah, then sat atop the round thing at the top first. I slowly stood up looked and.....stoned there for like 2 min lol. I jumped, and i caught, and i hung on! did one pull up there :D Well the fact that i survivied the challenge pole I must the belayers down there supporting my er.... 53kg of weight and still not letting go! After dinner we had this game called kidnapped! timothy was kidnapped! hahaha! 4 people including me went to search for him and of course we found him! Then we proceeded to do some stations to get chances to find the key to release timothy. The first try we were super tyco, 13 supposedly came from mariel(wtf?) and we got the key! then after that we no luck liao cannot get the key. but one nice instructor called pillar gave us a very obvious hint that the key was in number one and we got the key! We got 1st for the kidnapped game! Then sleep!

Day 2

Our day started promptly after breakfast where we went to build the raft. I had an advantage in this coz i knew how to tie knots :D Then after that the instructor tell me i cannot help to tie knots :( well anw its good that other people learn to tie the knots too. and all of us participated in this! After that we washed up and prepared for our performance item. We decided on a pair dance, and our instructor, vanessa, wanted us to do boy and girl dance...Mambo No. 5. I got chosen to partner...gerlynn... At first i was like WAHLAO!!! but then later cool down and danced more er... properly? forgot some steps while dancing and thank god gerlynn reminded me sometimes. After that we had abseiling. Not that exciting as the challenge pole and boon siong, who did not go for the challenge pole as he had a BAD fear of heights dared to do this! So brave right :P The only scary part in abseiling was positioning yourself on the wall properly, then not as scary liao.

After that, we went for somemore station games. We had to get across a "river" using a rope and everyone managed it! We had timothy to walk on a plank while the guys supported his weight. We all fit into this small square wooden plank on the ground. Then we had to lift a tire out of a 10 foot plus pole? We tried real hard and were dam tyco when jaryl, stuart, ahmed and me managed to throw it out without it touching the pole and it got back in! even the instuctor said it was tyco! we then had this high wall which we completed in a record time. 21 people in 6 minuted plus! Opps! I almost forgot the rebirth station. We had to carry everyone through a tire without the cup on top of the tire spilling! Of course la, we managed it with er... ease. maybe except stuart. he was the last one haha.

Campfire! It was not exactly the best campfire i been to, if you really want a good one, go to sarimbun. but it was great too! our performance item was not too bad, and the others too! ahmed and jaryl danced solo and that was awesome! Great job guys!

Day 3

Sad sad sad, we had to leave today... ended up clean toilet haha. I learnt some other dances roughly and packed up and left. When we left I felt a bit reluctant. But anw, THANK YOU ALL THE INSTRUCTORS WHO WERE ENTHUSIASTIC AND MADE OUR CAMP FUN, EVERYONE WHO ORGANISED THIS CAMP AND MY CLASSMATES WHO WERE TOLERANT ABOUT ANYTHING THAT I MIGHT HAD DONE WRONG AND OFFENDED THEM.
1,2,3,4 HIGH 5!

dam tired now... the two days before was doing job week, going house to house looking for jobs. Was fun while doing jobs and bonding with my patrol, finally this scout troop is taking some shape. Well i choing-ed this job week and hit my target :D $$250!! My first time hit so high, the last time i barely made 30 bucks lol. I somehow look forward to job week after this experience. This experience was very unique, only found in scouts, no other cca can offer this kind of experience. For those who said scout is gay or useless think again. When we scouts grow up, we will know more things before you, and maybe grow to be more successful than you! So scouting rocks! Rockclimbing looms in a few weeks :D

Well anw back to today, slacked for a bit before getting to homework. This is like the only rest day other than thursday during this hols.. Sad right! But at least I don't get bored as easily as other people. Got to go!

Wow time passes by so quickly! Finally most of the projects have been done with. Can finally relax more, but still have to prepare for tests and exams! How rountine can life get- after projects, more tests??!!

For the past week psls had a one night camp in school. They called it an Adventure Course, but when you look at the event sheet, they are just workshops. Well, it was not to be workshops, for it was one of the better camps i went through, maybe even better than the pre- orientation camp in nov. Had real fun there, found out some of my strengths and weaknesses, i'm a refiner and executor (chop chop!), but more of a type of facilitator. We then had this amazing race in Hougang to get a feel of the community. I dared the guys in my group to go there and shout PAP, well of course we didn do that, who knows what might happen?? Well, I had to leave camp early, was a bit reluctant, cause the camp was so fun! Still left anyway and wasted 15 minutes waiting for a cab to go to my aunt's place.

Day after my camp, i had sailing course. Who might had expected what happened on that day! we were already on shore, preparing to rig up, when our instructors called us over. We went over not knowing what was going to happen next. They told us that that had NO POWER BOAT! so either someone had to sacrifice their boat and let the instructors sail and watch over us, or we go home. Well, i vouched for going home, but felt slightly bad, for if we arranged the course to be later, it would be a bit too close to eugene's APs. But well, there was only a small wind that day too, not really much point to sail.

Then the next few days were spent chionging stuff until today. Real worn out from all the activities and looking forward to sleep.

Oh gosh!! i just remembered i need to tell the new scouts something. Freak...