Friday, May 16, 2008

16/05/08

Hey! Just came back from camp..so tired. I don't know what happened in school for the three days that i was in camp, so here's what happened in the camp i went to. Mind you, this post contains three posts, so it's gonna be really long.

WEDNESDAY

Woke up, bathed, changed, ate breakfast. Went to school and got back some of my exam results. 10.30 came and my class boarded the bus to go to the campsite. Reached the campsite, went to the camp's MPH, and sat down. Got to know my group members and instructor. After that, went to the canteen to eat lunch, which was rice with veggies and other stuff. After lunch, went to the flying fox tower, which was about 3 storeys high, i think. After a few of my group members tried, it was my turn and when the instructor was securing me to the rope, i was thinking, "what am i doing?"..finally, i was ready and the instructor told me to tell the people below to clear the "runway". After the runway was cleared, i counted to 3, and jumped. At first, you feel abit funny and scared. But when you come down, it's really nice and cooling because the wind is against you and you are like swinging from here to there. After the session was over, we washed up and went to the canteen again to have our dinner. Gathered at the MPH again after dinner to have a briefing of the night games. After a few jokes and laughs, one instructor told me to follow him together with a group of other people from different groups to some dark place. He told us that we the kidnapees for the game kidnap, in which the members had to find the missing dude or dudette. The game was quite fun and from time to time, i would look out from the "hiding place" to see the groups running here and there. After an hour or so, the instructor with us told us some ghost stories. Everyone was listening so intensely, when suddenly a boy shouted BOO! and the girls started screaming. When the game was finally over, which was about 10+, my group brought me to the MPH, again to hear the debrief of the game. Had supper, bathed, changed and snuggled into my sleeping bag. After that, it was lights out. Zzzz...

THURSDAY

This day was one of the dirtiest days of my life. Woke up at 6am, brushed teeth and washed my face. Went to the carpark at 6.30 like that and the instructors told us what we were going to do for the day. After eating breakfast, my group went out of the campsite and walked down a road to a creepy jungle entrance. Our instructors told us that we were going to do some game called nature rumble. After walking on a grassy and muddy path for a few minutes, we finally came to a mud pond. At this point, our instructor took out a stick and started to churn the mud. Then, he asked us to bath ourselves in the mud..ewww..after that, he took out a pail, gathered some mud and splashed it on us. A mud fight soon started after that and some guy threw some mud at where i was standing, making me dirtier. To top it all off, i accidentally ate some mud..yuck. When we finally came out of the muddy jungle, all dirty and smelly, some buses passed us and we waved to the old folks that were in them. Went to the kayaking station after that and started to make a raft out barrels, poles and ropes. Once the raft was finished, me and 7 other people carried it to the sea to see if it would float. Amazingly, it did. After that, we all went onto the raft to see if it could hold us and of course, it did. When we were about to get off, our instructor lifted the raft and we all fell into the water. I took this chance to wash away all the mud on my body. After the raft was dismantled, we all took a paddle and went into our kayaks to go kayaking. It was really fun, and at some points when we were paddling around, the leader would ask us to gather and play a game. Kayaking ended, went back to wash up. After that, practised our campfire prep dance and went to eat dinner. Went to the MPH after dinner to see some of the instructors joking around with each other. Went down to the campfire area, sat down and waited for the pile of logs in the pit to start burning. Once the logs were lit, the chief of the camp, Andrew, annouced the first few groups to act their campfire performance. Halfway through the campfire, chief andrew stopped the performance for awhile to play some games with us. Played finished the games, performance resumed. Once the whole campfire was over, andrew invited the instructors to stage and they told us how they would miss us when the camp was over and stuff like that. Then, we all watched a touching video of the camp which was a tearjerker..lol. Three girls in my group cried. When the video finished, my group went to the canteen to have supper. After that, we all sang jim, our instructor, a birthday song cos his birthday was tomorrow and splashed him with cold water. Went back to my hut, bathed, changed and slept.

FRIDAY

The last day of the camp! Nothing much to write about actually. Woke up at 7am, bathed, brushed my teeth, changed and went to the carpark for briefing on what we were supposed to do. After that, went to canteen to eat our last breakfast at the camp. Did area cleaning after eating. After cleaning, sweeping and mopping the MPH floor, we all sat down to rest. When the whole group rested enough, we chased fahrul and tickled him. Then, the whole group chased me and tickled me. After that, we chased the SLs and tau-porked them. Finally, we tau-porked jim..lol :D. Went back to carpark, bus came, said goodbye to our instructors and boarded the bus. Bus took us back to school and we went back to our own classrooms. Ms neo gave us back our geography paper and chatted with us for awhile before letting us go home. Called mum, talked to her, asked to fetch me. Mum came, picked me up, went to buy lunch, went home. Reached home, said hi to my brother, bathed, switched on the computer to write this long post. Yup, overall, the camp was really fun. It taught me a overcome my fears. Bye!

This post is dedicated to the instructors of JBAC and chief andrew. Thank you for making the sec 2 camp a great and fun camping exprience for me. LOL! :D

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