hello! as you all know i was away for the 3D2N sec 1 camp :) and i tell you it was
AMAZING. :) really amazing. the experience acquired from it is truly priceless and indeed i've learnt many things from it. definitely one of the best camps in my life! :)
so here goes!
Day 1the camp committee reported in the hall at about 2pm, while before that all of us were chasing the sec 1 classes up. it was quite a sight, as i saw this girl who actually brought a mattress! like you know those kinda sofa-bed size? yeah those. i was too shocked for words :O so after that we all settled down in the hall, brought them to their dorms to place their bags, and reported back to the hall again. first up was devotion, then singspiration. we sang and jumped to catchy songs like my redeemer lives, still, one way, we are one etc. i tried very hard to get 1-2 (i'm their group leader and) to sing, but they were all still rather shy about it. but nonetheless it's okay cos' it's only day 1! :) after singspiration was mass games!!! (i'm so excited cos' i planned 'em) but however it turned out quite hard to carry out the games because the hall was soooooooo noisy, it was hard to do self-introductions. we started off with whacko, then double whacko. which was difficult cos' me and wenjing could barely hear anything from them, and they could barely hear us too lol. but anyway, after that we played dog and bone! though it turned out to be pretty rough cos' a girl from another class was injured, i think 1-2 still had fun playing it against 1-1 ;) next up is the who has the....? game, which is the one where you send out one representative from your class and then you compete against each other tho see who has the longest hair, for example. though 1-2 didn't win anything, but it's okay! :D after the long mass games, we had a mass dance practice. :) all of them were enthusiastic about learning it, with the exception of some and persuading them to dance was really tough, but oh well, at least i tried :) it was shower/dinner time. 1-2 got to bathe first, but my energy was kinda drained by then. i had to help them fill up their pails and buckets - it was some sort like water rationing haha. at first i was struggling to find the fastest way possible to fill the water cos' the tap was really slow -_- but after awhile i got the hang of it :) when 1-2 finished bathing, it was dinnertime :) sang grace and did the hungry cheer! after dinner was the night game! super duper fun cos' we were touring round the school.... at night ;) the stations were all very fun, 1-2 was more enthusiastic, and was the only class that didn't laugh at michelle doing the chicken dance :) GO 1-2! :D and we were 3rd in completing the trivia quiz! so yay! had supper right after that and had milo and muffins. lights out @ 11pm for the sec 1s, and we had a debrief at 11.45pm, so we bathed then and had the debrief until about 12+, so we slept at around 1.30 to 2... :(
Day 2woke up at like 5.40am!!! :( we barely had 3 hours of sleep :/ washed up and woke the sec 1s up, brought them down for breakfast. it was like what, oily noodles :( and at like 6 in the morning some more... nuts. flag-raising with the rest of the school, then we proceeded with our own activities. started the day off with devotion and sings. again :) had a great time! after that we played journey of choice! though we didn't finish all the stations, but ah well! 1-2's enthusiasm was going up up up! :D great! then we had another round of stations games, which was called game-o-rama, and the water bag toss totally left 1-2 hyper hahaha. that was our first station for 1-2 and 1-5, and the station masters took very long to come... so we started cheering and having a competition to see which class is louder (and it is obviously 1-2 hahahahaha) ;) yihui super funny there la hahaha. the balloon burst also got my class high, while during bomberman, me and wenjing were sitting in a corner... :P after those games it was lunchtime aye. i ate the vegetarian fried rice (which was totally awesome)! after lunch was the much-anticipated amazing race, but due to the bad weather, we could only carry out our wet-weather plans and have it in school. and because of that it didn't go very well, cos' in our dry run we didn't execute this plan and so everything was in a big mess. 1-2 completed like three-quarters of all the stations and was in the lead when the teachers decided to leave the school to complete the rest of the stations -_- everything was quite screwed up... but at least we had fun outside school. mrs dhaliwal was there with 1-2 all the while, that's what probably helped us out alot :) our kite was really awesome too! thanks ruth and kerlyn for leading :) and the group leaders of A, B, C and D too! especially amanda, she's got great potential too! when we came back from school, 1-2 was the first one and so they got to bathe first! yay! this time me and wenjing didn't help them with the water though, cos' wenjing's neck was really sore and my feet had two swollen balls hahah. at night we made our kite and were briefed about finale night, where i was made to go up and choose the song for 1-2 and we got DON'T STOP BELIEVING BY GLEE! though idk that song, i was hoping that since glee was very popular, many people would know the song. however it turns out that only about 5 people know the song!!! :O so much for the false hope :( but it's okay, i got those 5 people to teach the class the song, while i tried to find radiant to sing for 1-2 cos' yeewah failed totally lol! but thanks for the effort, wah! :) that day wasn't very productive for our finale night, but we thought it was okay as we had another 1h15min the next day. after that was supper, and it was milo, bread and pears this time :) usual lights out, then usual debrief. :( slept a little earlier that night, but it didn't really make a difference for me...
Day 3got to sleep slightly more today, woke at 6am T_T called the class to wake and wash up, and they stayed in class for assembly cos' of temperature taking. same went for us, and after that we brought them for breakfast. had devotion and singspiration again after that :) then 1-1 to 1-6 had their disc profiling from 9am-11am, and in the mean time 1-7, 1-8 and the camp committee had to make the aluminium foil candle holders. since i suck at this kinda craft thing, i decided to just help mrs soh with the helping of badges. AND THIS WAS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED ALL WENT HIGH. LIKE REALLY HIGH. :D yihui kept calling me retard for no reason. like 'eh you retard la go take the chair for teacher' SUPER FUNNY I TELL YOU HAHAHAHA. and then i was damn slow at packing the badges, i only managed to finish 1-2's :P then mrs soh gave us a task to do - which was to find a table for the badge presentation ceremony. and this was what sparked off the beginning of the retard family :) me, yihui, hazel and seowhwee were made to find a table and bring it to the back of the hall. first we went to the back of the hall and found a wheely table. and the stupid thing was that the hall was blocked by a barrier so you could not walk/run around the hall. then we were wheeling the table here and there and decided we should show it to mrs soh and get her approval. then we were like being retarded and all about moving it here and there, and about not blocking the road/pathway (epic moment). we realised we spent like 45 minutes wheeling the table around, laughing and talking crap :P so after that we went back to the hall and found the suitable table. FUNNY LIKE WHAT I TELL YOU. it was the table that was infront of the hall all along, used by the camp committee. HAHAHAHA then mrs soh also approved. and we got the cupcake stickers from the amazing race and pasted it on our shirts. and the retards call me 'lao da' just cos' i got the biggest cupcake sticker -____- but it was another really epic moment of fun ;) so we were thinking of putting a sign stating 'do not take away' so nobody would take it. after writing it, i was about to bring the paper to hazel and seowhwee who were waiting backstage for me and yihui to come. we took masking tape from pb room and retarded-ly found 1-1's badminton racket hahaha! so while i was walking to the backstage holding the marker in my hand, i was like 'eh here!' then suddenly epic moment #3, the marker flew out of my hand and only the cap was left -_____________- can you imagine how retarded i was. so it was somewhere under the drums/guitar/bags/stage platforms. omg la retarded me ;( found it after 15mins and then we had mass dance practice again, and my patience reached the limits this time cos' i pulled those who weren't dancing out and placed them in front. :/ not that i wanted to do so, but i was really at my limits. we played another round of mass games again, and then it was lunch. awesome :) next we had time to prepare for finale night, but it turned out to be only very little time! it was 1.30pm and we had until 2.25pm to prepare, and nothing really much productive surfaced... we only finished the first verse :( i was getting really frustrated cos' there were many disagreements and uncooperative people... not trying to pin-point anyone but yeah :/ so when it was time to go for area cleaning briefing we got ourselves the toilet -_- oh great, but luckily one of the toilets were being cleaned by the aunty, so we only had one to clean. and to the volunteers who helped out, thank you very much for taking the initiative :) 1-2 then changed themselves into their pinafore and white blouse, we hurried and rushed through our finale night performance prep. thanks wenjing for coming up with the dance moves, cos' i did nothing, really :( all i did was try to get another task of writing cards to the teachers done :/ which eventually was done too :) after some time extension from deanna, we rushed the sec1s down to the ava for a cca fair briefing :) then we had slack time, where we met up with the retards and casmine, who laughs at nothing yet everything :D after slack time it was a tour round the cca booths, then when they got to the hall it was free and easy :) but i had a hard time calling 1-2 back everytime :( at the hall i saw the harpists!!!! :D and i watched their performance, though i missed a small part of love story :( dinnertime for the sec1s, then we had ours too. after that we had the cca fair presentation, and the instrumentation at the beginning was awesome, though the harps could barely be heard :( and then the uniformed groups' presentations was stunning too! and idk why people kept laughing at the st. john's performance -_- very funny meh? and then there was all that talk about cca attendance and selection stuff for the sec1s, i was about to doze off already :/ until finale night started!!!!! we had the class performances and as class by class finished their performance, me and wenjing were slowly gaining confidence and were like 'sure win liao' hahahahaha. ;) until we saw 1-8's, we were a little scared... :( THEY WERE SUPER ENTHUSIASTIC CAN! :O 1-2 went last, and i must say, i'm definitely very proud of them :') ah well, you'll never know how i'll feel as a group leader, it's just too.... overwhelming :) we did the PL cheer, but it wasn't VERY loud, but not bad! :) after the classes all performed we had our
MUCH-AWAITED MASS DANCE! though i was really tired, i somehow plucked up the energy to put in all my heart and soul into dancing :) and i was really happy! even a little happier when i'm laughing with the retards ;) we had the badge presentation ceremony after that, and then the candle light-ups - which were completely amazing when everyone lifted their lit candles up into the air! :') when mr go called out the camp comm on stage, i cried tears of joy after that, i was too touched hahahaha. we brought our classes back to their dorms to take their bags then we were dismissed from there. from there nobody claimed their drinks/food so me and wenjing took 'em all :D hahahaha. :) went home with anchi and slept for 12hours straight that night :) SHIOK.
well, i miss sec 1 camp, alot. i miss the laughters, the cheers we did, the sweat i shed for 1-2, the tears i cried, the shouts/yells, the enthusiasm, the games we played and etc. it's definitely a life-changing camp, and i hope i have touched the lives of the sec1s too! i want sec1camp all over again :) and thanks to my retard family for being there always, to carry tables and to laugh like crazy people <3 :)
Retard Family ftw! ♥(wow the camp was so amazing that my post was so long, i bet nobody would read this!)
