ABCDE camp
jus wanted to share my experience cux i think its meaningful(:

Day 1 of camp-
pumping. cux some ppl were late. we did almost 40+? can't really rmb. lol.
given a specific time to reach a place in sch. like 5 mins for campers to get to hall. NOW NOW. RUN. then everyone started carrying their huge bags n run like..... lol. we managed in time. and ya we realised the importance of following instructions. punishment = pumping. lol.
then we had SL workshops. boring. lol. so my poor class. me n ding bin haven't come up with any plans yet (we were waiting for grace) okay excuses. haha.
then got values workshop. i really suspect that i fell asleep cux i dun rmb ANYTHING at all. this might sound exaggerated. but. really. haix it even amazes me.
then we went to sleep in classrooms in blk 11.
b4 that. mus standardise EVERYTHING. girls had two storeys so we had to standardise the way we arrange the tables and our bags with both storeys. poor monica was running up n down. good job girl!
then i slept badly. cux. the floor is hard n my sleepbag = a piece of cloth.
haha.(: so ya one word sums up my 1st dae; horrible.

then we moved on to Day two.
me n girls in my grp woke up extra early to go bathe b4 reporting at (i forgot wad time.) SHUANG. nobody to rush n fight for space with. plus can take our TIME.
-i cannot stress the importance of time in that camp enough. haha.-
then we had our breakfast and all. so ya mifen and sth else i've forgotten with milo too. milo need to queue. so ya 'fight' again. lol. oh YA. b4 that. more pumping. as we were not accustomed to this time limit thingy and the importance of punctuallity. some were late. and basically the thing emphasized is ' one for all, all for one.' so ya. everyone gets equal punishment. and ya mux report attendance. u'll see why i stress this in day 3.
then we went LAC (labrador adventure camp) in the afternoon.
somehow i rmb more pumping. haha.
then we set off for our activities. challenge pole. MY GOD. nearly died up there. its this thing where u haf to climb up n stand on top of this pole (its not v stable mind u) and jump for this bar which is at a not-so-good distance for short ppl. haha. well ya only one person in my grp hung onto the bar. which is jaryl -clap clap clap- boys all can grab the bar but the prob is it will have this kind of ermx momentum i guess. it'll bounce down. then up. when it goes up u tend to let go of yr hand. so ya. thats basically why we failed. haha.
then we had this rock climbing thing which is like sidewards. meaning u've to get from one side to the other. it looked so EASY. haha. we were all damn complacent. so ya i tried n failed. haha. it takes alot of endurance and arm power. DETERMINATION. thats wad we learnt. btw there is a reflection time at the end of our every activity. so ya. basically we learn abt encouragement. and the importance of having an open mind. cux our frens would be telling us which stone to step to when we get stuck and stuff like dat. ya its a team thing. oh and more pushups cux never sport properly. haha.
then lunch. u noe the thing abt lunch is that it gets tastier everydae? partly bcux we get hungrier and thats the only thing we get. haha. like or dun like. mux eat. oh and jaryl eats super ALOT. he ate jovita's n felicia's leftovers after finishing his. all these faster than me finishing one packet of rice. so ya wateva we cannot finish we basically give it to the guys. haha. thx for not wasting food man!
then i rmb workshops. we were suppose to come up for this class vision thingy n a design for sandcastle which we'll be leading the class in. lol. me n dingbin. tired. sleepy. yawning. came up with one in like? a few seconds. we didn't really care at that pt of time cus we figured we won't be so unlucky to get called upon to present. haha. then we submitted the design for our class sandcastle thing. oh ya. we had a grp discussion for this sandcastle thingy we were going to build in day 3. come on! we damn creative can. got ROBOT LEHx. andy went to search the internet and found out this robot sandcastle thingy and we decided to use it! lol. btw our theme was the security of ajc in 30 years time. we also had this tall tower that had a bird ontop. dun laugh. the bird. was supposed to look over the whole of aj cux it had this super laser eyes. haha! the idea was scraped cux the bird i drew looked like a duck and we had difficulty building it. lol. damn funny. so we had this huge watchtower in the middle with rockets at the side. HAHA. then l8r in the night we had this professional frm the sandcastle organisation to supervise us. we had four zones; yellow, red, blue and was it green? haha. and we apponted four zone mayors. the zone mayor we got woah. super efficient and v good leader. we pieced our project tgt with the other teams in our zone (yellow) which were in charge of recreation, utilities etc. and came up with this fabulous plan. woohoo. i'm proud of it. haha.

Day3-
pumping. we were getting accustomed to it alr. haha. y pumping? late. and never report attendance without instructor Sham asking. so ya we got it. haha.
then SANDCASTLE BUILDING. we were all whisked off in this super nice air conditioned and designed for sleeping in bus haha. we all tired having like 6 hrs per day for sleeping. ya. so pls understand haha.
first we piled up one huge heap of sand and kept puring water to make it compact. sand + water + pressure = sandcastle. (: i stood on top of that heap n jumped on it to make it compact. it took us a long while to start building the real thing cux we were lack of manpower as half of team was doin the robot which is harder to complete. and not enough ppl taking water. so ya. inefficient was the learning pt. then we built the main feature which is this huge watch tower. we used the hiuge pail adding on a smaller stack plus a cone shaped top. 3 portions. so we started filling in the sand and compacting it with this customed made 'hammer' woah i tell u. we had instructors and everyone holding the 3 portions tgt b4 successfully pulling out the pails and cone. team work man. then we started building walls at the side linking to the watch tower. due to lack of flat land on the heap of sand we compacted earlier there was a change of plan n rockets were scraped. haha. then we used our aesthetic talent to create steps and a sort of entrance to the watch tower. then we used the tools to create the square boxes on walls etc. then Denning went on to use his creativity to build some features behind and in front of the watch tower. lol. then we linked all the features tgt to create the yellow zone ajc! the robot was a huge success. it looked like a robot. haha. TADA. mission accomplished!
then we had lunch at east coast then back to LAC. more activities. we were suppose to do one more high elements but it RAINED. i.e. sandcastle collapsed at east coast. sad lehx! it was our fruit of labour. haha. so we had this straw game indoors. create tallest straw design that can balance a marble on top. thru this my grp learnt importance of communication and our generation of ideas enabled us to create a stable design! and we managed to balance the marble too. so we won haha. then we had this mohawk walk. we played this during sec 3 camp walking on ropes frm one side to the other. the challenge was to get everyone across without falling off the rope during the course. have to restart if we falled off. we restarted 2 times. come on. its considered pro. but we owed instructor willy pushups cux we neglected safety. sporter not paying attention. so ya. haha. we deserved it larhx. lol. after we completed this first challenge we had to cross the ropes this time with no communication and with five ppl on the rope at one time which had to walk in a grp. with good communication and teamwork we managed to complete the whole thing in 7 mins plus. it was the so far best record. haha! pro lehx. lol. the class leaders from various class had to come up with this proposal for our SL learning project. ours was on Yishun Student Care Centre for children which are slower in learning and you noe, a bit problematic. we had to show them 4 experiments with ice breakers at the start. so we divided ourselves into grps again. we were in 3's for experiments and for ice breakers. there were four grps of children btw. so ya. then for experiment side. we were supposed to do attracting iron from crushed cereal, egg floats in salt water, volcano and writing secret messages with lemon juice. then we came up with this idea of using a story to link all the experiments tgt. lol. a spy was eating cereal when he received a secret message to find the golden egg at a volcano. haha! but as the groups were rotating we could not get them to go in this order thus we had to come up with an unrelated story for each experiment. ours was on captain honey stars trying to extract out chemical X which is iron from the contaminated cereal. contaminated by Captain Evil Star. lol. then we had more vision ws. we had to improve on each class' visions in our grp. so we rotated. and guess wad. the vision me and ding bin came up with recieved comments like, " detailed. good." HAHA. both of us we astounded by our intellectual ability. haha. then girls got punished for choking up the toilet. it was choked by pads. the toilet was FLOODING. my god. and one cubicle was filled with shit. it was so bad that our teacher had to call a plumber or some guy to clean up the toilet. my god. use their brains can or not. how can throw pad into toilet? sure choke one right?

Day 4.
we had this ws on 1st aid lol. then we can wrap each other in arm slings. lol. ok larhs. quite insightful. the burnt thing was disgusting though but we were sitting at the back so couldn't really see. nxt time when u all faint i noe wad to do. haha. then we had the see saw game. everyone stand on top balancing that thing. and as u noe its difficult so ya. haix.... anyway we succeeded standing on it 3.8 seconds. but we took damn long. haha.
then we discussed our SL project further etc.
then back to AJC.
phew. things got lighter. instructors were more lenient. and they started smiling. which was not so scary for us. and pumpings became lesser or even non existent(: however bathing was still a prob. 35 mins (extended frm 30) for 8 grps with an average of 15 ppl and around at most 12 cubicles to get fully wash up. this calculates to ard 2 mins++ per person. but we managed to get wash up! come on. we jus wrapped ourselves in towels and went to those cubicles meant for peeing only to change. then we met with the person in charge for my SL project. there we learnt how to tackle some problems we would face with the children. more discussion abt SL. and one dry run. etc. perfect. the sleep.

Day5-6
no pumping. SL project to be carried out. so we headed to yishun. woah. like being released of prison like tat. haha.then we had to wear ponchos to yck mrt cux... drizzling. haha. i look like a duck in bright yellow. lol. then at yishun my grp realised that our cereal project cannot be carried out. iron too lil to be attracted to magnet. so we immediately scraped the idea. and moved on to 'raisins in sprite' it was actually ice cream soda. with sprite being unavailable. then we came out with a story plan of tarzan needed raisins on raisin island and how jane used the soda to make raisins float out of holes. raisins were in holes cux another evil thing wanted tarzan to starve. lol. then good communication enabled it to be a success. and YES. our vvvvvvvv kind instructor let us go mac for some ice cream!!! woah. heaven. then we had a whole packet of cereal to share too. lol. then we went back to ajc for some sharing and reflection. we totally enjoyed the process so came up with like 21 points on wad we learnt. lol. and each one present one pt. we ended off with non-mihi-solum LOL. then SOS emotional Learning by Uncle Lionel our sch's counsellor. he was entertaining. so nxt time u all v sad can come to me i'll be able to talk u out of suicide. haha. then we had 2 hours sleep. we assembled at aj square at 10 pm in preparation for our land expedition. come on. we decided on welfare (me and germaine) 2 navigators (Denning and YiHui) and 2 sweepers (Andy and Bernard) sweepers as in ask to close gap all these. not u noe sweepers.
we set off at 1130 and walked all the way to Bedok South Jetty at East Coast. lol. our aim was to see the sunrise. lol. we had some games in btwn there was one where we finally learnt frm our mistakes in LAC. we totally exhibit communication skills. we talked one at a time. and combined our ideas tgt. then we completed the game in like a few mins. haha. PRO. i'm so proud of us. lol. so then we encouraged each other throughout our brisk walk to bedok and we managed to reach at 0530 the nxt day! woohoo!!! but cannot see sunrise cux blocked by clouds. haix. we trekked 18 km. cool. pro.
everyone slept on our way back to ajc and we were given a super long time to wash up and had a great lunch! nasi briyani and other choices! then there was graduation ceremony. and we exchanged letters to ourselves, grp photo. and goodbye.

so jus like tat. our camp ended. it was so educational i think. haha. oh. i kinda miss it. (:
i learnt communication skills, cooperation tactics, safety, time management and resilience. thank you to all those that have made my camping experience memorable! i managed 6 days without hp come on! haha
sry for the long post guys if u all wan it down cus cannot see pics then jus take it down its ok by me(:

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