tagbacks!
hanlu: JUNLE SEXY!!!i miss you mann!haha,takkair ok?
HANLU!! i miss you too! =(

Huiling: Just think just think! & then remember remember, i can see Huiling next week for dinner:D
hahaha! XD yea man! woohoo! anw the camp wasn't that bad after all. lol.

yuanzhi: have fun for ur camp
thanks thanks, i did. =)

lucienne: hi junle!
HELLO LUCIENNE! =D


AVLC 2D1N Camp - Day 1
turned out to be better than expected. i'm not referring to the quality of the activities, but the lessons drawn from it. and most importantly, it really helped my ExCo to bond together. =D

dad drove me to Eunos MRT on Sat, approx 6.30am. waited all the way till slightly after 7am, before we got onto the chartered bus and made our way to Sarimbun. there was the usual intro, opening ceremony and welcome address, then we were allocated to our bunks. the A-huts were simply heavenly. ok it's not really great and comfy like some hotel room, but for a scouts camp, it was already considered superb. the room was clean, and there was more than enough space for all of us. =D

the next 3 activities were carried out based on 3 major groups. this meaning the whole camp was split into 3 sections to carry out 3 differnt activities concurrently. the groups then rotated among the 3 activities so that everyone had a chance at all 3 activities.

first activity we had was rock climbing. learnt the basics and had a chance at taking up the different positions. however, there was 1 position we didn't have a go at, and that was the belayer. (the Rovers were doing this part) when it came to my turn to be the climber, i only managed to climb around a quarter of the 7-storey wall. it was tough man. a lot of strength was needed from the fore arm, so much so that when i reached the ground, the muscles ached till the extent that i couldn't even hold onto anything properly. rock climbing seriously isn't as easy as it looks. it requires teamwork, strength, determination, skill and planning. now i fully understand why jiesi looks up to her pro seniors so much.

after lunch, there was team building games. this comprised of 5 stations.
1st station was hands & legs, a game where the whole team was supposed to travel a distance on a given no. of hands and legs. my ExCo took such a long time discussing that we were expected just to stay on the given no. of hands and legs for a period of 30sec. LOL!
2nd station was about balancing the see-saw and holding it there for a period of time. this was very fun because whenever we managed to balance, all of us would be be so tensed up, hoping it would stay balanced.
3rd station was kavadi (if tt's how it's spelt), a game where we had to protect a "VIP", but at the same time try to touch the "VIP" from the opponent team. to make things tougher, one has to chant "kavadi" continuously when in the opponent's area. (if not he has to return to his team's area) my ExCo won 1-0! after our first (and only) score, we switched to complete defence to protect our "VIP". LMAO!
4th station was about mass orgy travelling a distance on wooden bars. the "mass orgy" came up because the whole ExCo had to squeeze so closely together in one line to stay on the wooden bars. hahaha! anyway it was really HOTHOTHOT when we stuck ourselves to each other and tried to coordinate our leg movements
5th station was line-up on the low wall, a game where we had to arrange ourselves based on a given property (eg. name, birthday, height etc). lots of hugging when we were switching positions on the low wall. it was pretty scary too because there were many times when we felt like we were nearly falling off (during the position switching).
overall, the activities were pushing forth the idea of communication within the ExCo.

next up was raft building. we had to build a raft from the given materials and equipment. after which, there will be 4 people on the raft out at sea trying to get tennis balls. the activity kind of screwed up because the rafts out at sea couldn't really travel, so they took a really long time to collect the tennis balls and row back to shore. my ExCo was the funniest. the raft couldn't move at all. being on the shore, i witnessed the comical actions of how the raft remained stationary despite the intensive rowing. but somehow a miracle happened when the seniors shouted nevertheless, the concept behind this activity was about resourcefulness, how we utilise the limited resources given and make things work.

then there was the 1st mass activity (mass in the sense that the all the participants were playing this 1 activity together), tug-of-war. there were some misunderstandings, which led to my ExCo losing the very 1st match. =_= so the situation was like this. my ExCo was playing with another ExCo, and the score was 1-1. then when we were having the 3rd round, not knowing that we were supposed to pull the whole opponent ExCo across the line (the dumb referee confused us when he talked to us after the 2nd round), we started cheering when we pulled 1 guy across. the opponent ExCo seized this opportunity and thus we lost. it didn't really matter, cause the loss allowed us to slack and relax for the remaining time. x)

campfire was after dinner. worse period of time for my ExCo. apparently we did not use the prep time to prepare our cheer and performance item, so we were kinda stressing out when the campfire started. i totally blanked out due to stress overload. oops! and in the end we did a very typical cheer. the performance item was a combined 1 with ExCo17, and we scraped through it using the Scouting Light song. phew. we still managed to enjoy ourselves a little though, through the funny skits and the "who has _____?" game (this was mostly self-entertainment XD).

night hike turned out to be rather meaningless, imo. when walking out, we were supposed to carry 1 member from the ExCo for half the distance. (lesson: no one gets left behind) then when walking back, we were supposed to walk in a ring, facing out, for half the distance as well. (lesson: in a team, everyone has a different role so that things can work out right) well i do see where these activities are driving towards, but considering our fatigue level and mood, it simply didn't work out right. our minds were filled with only 1 thing - getting back to the A-huts and sleep. ok just picture 100+ zombies walking, now that's how it was. lol.

supper...
lights out. couldn't really sleep. especially after the mosquitoes stung me on my neck, left elbow & the sole of my right foot. like WTH, the one on the sole of my foot was super itchy.

that's the end of Day 1. will continue with Day 2 some other time.


for now, it's time to watch "Heroes".