Hey ya'll!
Guess who's back from camp!!!
My gosh! Camp was SO fun!(Except for the wet shoes-funky toilet-raining all day part)
GY had two cool trainers! Botak(Jonathan) and Borat(Aziz)! They were so funny but Borat refused to smile and or laugh!!( Well in the end he did...) Okay this is getting a tad confusing so let's start from the top...
The night before the camp I was so pumped! I couldn't sleep until about 1am or something. On the bus was fun too. We were singing songs the whole way through and I mean literally the WHOLE way through! I think Botak was a little freaked out by this. :) When we got there we were briefed and then we went to pitch our tents. After that the most unthinkable thing happened...IT RAINED!!! So sad! So the rest of the day we did the belay school in-doors and played some games. Oh! We also did the cheers for the next day's campfire. After that we went to put on our wet attire and go to the 'Milo pond' (that is how BROWN it is) to play a game in the water. HOWEVER...about half of the class didn't get to do it because there was no time... SAD! We were all wet and mushy and we did not get to go in the water...AND to make it worst, it was SO freaking cold!!! We felt better after throwing Botak's hat in the water though...:)))That evening, we all (tent mates) slept in our tent and couldn't sleep till about 1am and woke up quite a few times. In the morning we were all so damn tired(well at least I was...).
The next day was more event full even if the rain was still coming down. I think we did abseilng first...I think...anyway I was the last to go up and it was so high! About 4 storeys high! And guess what? MY CLASS ABANDONED MEEE!!!(Mr Ang came back to look for me, BUT STILL!) Later,we did the challenge valley which was going through a line of tires suspended in the air by some wooden poles. It was really fun and really dirty. After that we headed over to the Milo pond again but this time to slide down a humungo(sp??) slide that led to the pond! I went twice and DramaQueen refused to go in!! (You missed out friend!) We also made Mr Ang try it and he ACTUALLY was sporting enough to go! How cool is that?
Later, we went (wait I need to process first...) rafting. We split up into our two groups, Chanel (my group!) and Bonia. When you think of rafting you think the raft is already done right? WRONG! We had to build it from scratch. They gave us 5 wooden poles, 3 buoys and string. Then we had to think about how to tie it together and in the end we had a competition. And Mr Ang and Ms Tan were judging. They couldn't decide because it was like choosing between two children so one picked each team so it was a draw! (so clevah!)
We had lunch there and then we went kayaking!! Hoorah! I teamed up with Lauren by the way.( You pro Lauren! XD) Mr Ang also went kayaking with us. It was quite fun but tiring. At the end of it alot of people got scratched and all while bringing their kayaks up because the rocks were really slippery. Then after that the last thing we did that day was Hang Out! The high element things if you know what I mean. I did the high one which was the rope bridge. Jephine was so good at the high ones even though she was a tad sick! She walked on the thin beam one like a natural! She also did the rope bridge like me without breaking a sweat! (You're my new hero and I may learn fencing!!! :))))) While we were doing the high elements, the teachers were bored and played a stupid game. Mr Lau, Mr Teo and Ms Belle Tan (lao shi!!) were trying to knock over a plastic bottle with tiny rocks. So lame. We all asked why Mr Ang didn't want to play and he said it was too much of a peanut game for him...
After hang out we changed and all and had dinner then we had campfire! The teachers and trainers did a performance for us and that was followed with our own perforamances. Sadly, it was late and the campfire came to an end... That night we slept in the STI building and I think when my head touched the sleeping bag, I was out till 5am. Drama Queen woke me up saying it was already 6am. I looked at my watch and realised it was only 5am...so angry. Then I fell back to sleep for a while then went to clean up.
Later in the day we stiked down the tants and removed the floor boards. Then we went into the bus and travelled to Kallang for dragon boating! Mrs Fern and Ms Tan sat behind me and Adilah and Mrs Fernandez kept complaing I couldn't paddle properly! It was because the peeps in front were all paddling at the wrong time!! Ah well. When ever we were next to another class, Mrs Fern would fill up a container with water and splash it on them and we would in turn use our oars to splash! Then at one point, we sat on the sides of the boat and began rocking the boat! We also turned ourselves around and put our legs in the water. THAT was freaky. After that we had some races with the others and Mrs Fern had a new theory that it was Botak's leading that screwed up our coordination! And it was true! He blew his whistle slower and slower and by then our oars were hitting each other. So when we got onto land, Mrs Fern told us to distract him and she would pour a bottle of water down his back! It was one funny sight! He asked:
"It is fresh water right?" And we answered,
"No it's sea water lah!" He gave us a million dollar look!! Hahaha!!
After dragon boating, we ate lunch and spent the rest of the day playing mindless games at the nearby National Stadium and I tell you...the walk seemed so long and my shoulders were killing meeeee....
After that it was time to go back to school and do a debrief. We did one debrief with Botak and Borat and the last one with the camp chief. We also saw a slide show of all of us and what we did during those 3 days 2 nights and it was damn embarrasing because there was one picture of ME and ONLY me!!! Ahhh!! After that we took one last picture with Botak and Borat and that was the close of the camp. Sigh...I miss Sarimbun already!!! (Not the toilets though) When I got home I was worshipping my bed and my toilet bowl.
Now I am so looking forward to next year's OBS!!! WHOOHOOOO!!! :))) Pray it doesn't rain!
Signing off,(so long ahh...)
Abun
p.s It feels so damn good to wear dry shoes again!