Hi everyone. I am back from the camp. I survived the camp!! Yeah!! Ok, today I am going to talk about the camp. Ok, our group were very lucky to be able to sleep in the dormitry while the others were sleeping in the tents and the hut thingy which was no where comfortable than our dorm. Haha, how lucky were we huh?? All the I-sparkers slept in the dorm except 1/6 of the ortusians, which so happened to be us. Be jealous!! Haha, but it was damn dirty. I kept on scratching on the second night because of my sensitive skin. Oh yeah, and we shared the dorm with the i-sparkers. They were so noisy during the night and disturbed our sleep. They even did things that were too "good" to be told. Haha.
Ok, the talk of my lodging has came to an end. Now I am going to talk about the foods. Our first meal wasn't very good. The rice was not cooked well and the smell of the veggies put me off. I was surprised that some were able to finish the food. This is camp food, if you don't want to eat, then you will have to starve till dinner. However hard I wanted to put the food into my mouth, they just reject it. Cannot blame me :)
Now I am going to talk about the first day. After the lunch we had simple cooking lesson whereby we have to cook simple food. Then after that we went on to the wet activities. We had to slide down into a muddy pond which was called the milo pond, but the pond wasn't dirty. It was only smelly. But it was fun, just that I got my shirts, shorts and shoes dirty. After that we had team building activity. We had to climb up a low wall. Chris managed to climb up both the first and the second wall while I only managed to climb up the second wall. But I was happy to know that only me and him can climb up the wall. After that we had another team building activity then we went back to the dorm to bathe and went down for dinner. I didn't bathe at all during the whole camp.(Yucks!! Disgusting rite??) After dinner we had some cheers practice and that's all for day1.
The next day I woke up to know that Man Utd won Inter 2-0. Yeah!! Ronaldo and Vidic got onto the score sheet and Man Utd procceeded to the quarter-finals in their quest for a quintuple. Haha, guess how I got that news?? Yep, I got it from Yee Hark. Haha. His phone was able to connect to the internet. Ok, enough talk about that. I will go all day long if I keep on talking about it. Then after that we had another team building game called the TP shuffle. We are supposed to sit on a log in a very obscene manner. We are to sit in a random position and then we have to change into our index number without talking. After that we changed into our wet attire and we went for the rafting activity. I did not get wet as I did not go into the water because of the fact that there were too many people. After rafting we had some fun and fitness games. Firstly we played the game called ultimate frisbee. We won 3-0. How was that huh?? Haha. We thrashed the other team like crazy man. I scored one goal and assisted another. At the last minute of the game, the other team tried two last shots on goal and miraculously, I blocked both of them. Haha. Because of that, they voted me as the man of the match. After that we played a game called the tiger and the hunter. The hunters were supposed to pull the "tail" away from the tiger. Then all of them aimed at me and chris just because we are the two fastest runner in the class. I got caught by them but chris did not because of his agility. I am not saying that I am not agile, but you get the idea rite?? Yeah, ok. So after that we had our lunch and we went to have the sarimbun challenge. For the first challenge, we were supposed to throw balls into a basket which our friends were carrying and walking around. We have to throw in as many balls as possible in 10 minutes. I must say that our group has done well as we threw in 121 balls. You may think that it is easy, but it is not if you try it in real life. We are supposed to make a catapult in 15minutes at the second challenge. We were not working well with each other at first, but after that, we worked together and made a catapult. At the third challenge, we were supposed to go on a trek but we were unable to finish it due to the rain. Unable to complete the trek, we went to practice our cheer in a room and after that, we had dinner. After dinner, was the highlight of the day: campfire. One by one, the groups went up cheer. I think that our group cheered very badly as we forgot the cheer. However, we went on to complete the cheer. After the cheer, the camp trainers and the student leaders gave us a round of applause. This made us feel good. Slowly, the campfire died out and Mr. Tan Chee Wee gave a talk that ended the campfire. Although the campfire died out, the memories of this camp will always remain in my heart.
The last day, when we were going back home, it started to rain cats and dogs. We went back to the bus in our ponchos. In the rain, we bid farewell to the camp as we made our way home on the bus. I feel that this camp had made me bonded better with my classmates, and I learnt how to step out of my comfort zone. I also learnt how to reach out to my classmates. The money spent on this camp was well spent. The happy moments of this camp will forever be etched in my heart.