} sec 3 adventure camp

just came back from the camp. it was so fun. :) Especially the campfire! Really full of the ij spirit and all that mushy stuff.. heheh.

1st day

we had.. rope obstacles and team dynamics. the rope obstacles turned out to be a big joke for my group, because we only got to do abseiling and flying fox. didnt get to do wall climbing and stuff.. sucks. i didnt get to do abseiling, because i was letting other people go first, but in the end only 6 people managed to do it 'cos of the time constraint. it's all the instructors' fault.. come so unprepared.. but yah i won't say anymore. :x

after that we went on to the flying fox.. which i was kinda nervous about, because i'm scared of heights. oh yes, i discovered my fear of heights just when i was about to do the flying fox. i was so nervous, i was refusing to go down the ledge and stuff.. the instructor was saying, 'do you want to do this?' and i was like, no.. no way am i going to slide down the ledge.. but in the end i did it anyway. :S i think i sort of conquered my fear in the process of facing it, but i realised that i really hate heights and i don't think i will ever commit suicide by jumping off a building. too bad, but if i want to die that badly, i'd have to find an alternative.

anyway, the flying fox is actually really fun. but too fast. it's all over so quickly that it makes me want to do it all over again to experience more of it, hehe.

then we had to go for lunch. which was disappointing, because i wanted to try wall climbing. i'm not so nervous about climbing because i think it's much better to go up than to come down.. although, come to think of it, i'd probably climb all the way up and then not dare to come down. :S

lunch was ok, the egg was really nice, i stole another piece after everyone else had eaten, when no teachers were watching the food. woohoo.

after lunch we had team dynamics, which was quite fun. we played the floating turtles game, where we had to step on tyres from one side of the basketball court to the other.. not allowed to stand on the court, etc. it was fun sloshing about like that, cos the tyres were wet and squashy.. everyone was high at that point and simren kept falling off (grabbing me and pulling me down in the process) because she was laughing so much.

in fact we were so high.. and slow.. that we were the last one to finish during the practice. but surprisingly, we came in first in the end. wow. haha.

then, just when we were about to play flying spiders, it started to rain, so we had to move to the hall. we played the jumping bunnies there... my class really sucks at jumping together, we can't synchronise at all and some people can't even jump rope at all.. hahaha. me and simren were turning the rope, probably the most tiring job because we had to keep turning and turning while the others hopelessly tried to jump at the same time....

in the end we did 2 jumps, i think. haha. pathetic. but we didn't have that much practice, so i guess it's ok.

then.. errr... oh yah, we also played this chair game think.. which is the same as the floating turtles, except that we used chairs instead of tyres. we competed with 3/4 after a few practices and they won, so fine, haha. we were quite close behind so never mind, who cares.

err.. i forgot what happened after that. darn, my memory is so bad. all i can remember is later on, we had a debrief in the hall and then we went home. yup.

2nd day

was too lazy to pack the previous night, so in the morning i had to quickly pack.. and i forgot my wallet. sigh. but, well, never mind.. my dad gave me some money 'just in case'.. hehe, thanks dad. :)

first thing in the morning was creativity. which was very, very long and boring. i couldn't wait until lunch time. i dunno why, but 3/2 was sitting kinda apart from the other classes during the group discussions.. like there's a boundary between us or something. i dunno la, i really can't figure out why the other classes are so hostile towards 3/1 and 3/2. not so much to 3/2, more to 3/1, i have no idea why.

anyway, we played 3 games.. not really games, just sort of. first we had to create an aircraft that will fly far and accurately, and promote it to the instructors. then we had to build a tall paper tower that can hold a certain weight, and promote it to the instructors as well. after that we had to protect an egg using straws and whatever other materials they gave us.. i thought we managed to shield it pretty well, but the egg still cracked. :(

after the creativity thinger... we had lunch, then dragon boating! easily the most exciting thing out of everything else.. at first we were in a total mess, rowing to our own pace, but in the end we managed to row quite well, we placed 2nd in both mini races that we had... and the winning team had more people AND the lightest boat. i remember it as the lightest boat because the last time we had dragon boating (arc + odac) the instructor pointed it out. the SCDF no. 7 boat.. i think. yep. so not too bad for a class that rowed so sloppily, haha.

then we had our tea, short debrief and went back to school where we bathed and got ready for the campfire.

oh yeah, and i have to mention one part where gloria came up to me after i bathed and told me that wyna was looking for me because i kept her tape. so i went up to the arc room, and wyna came screaming to me asking where the tape was, and i pointed to the cd box.

it was right behind her all along.

and then i dunno if she was pissed at me, or at herself, because she started beating me for some reason.. haiz. i told gloria where i kept the tape. arg.

well, anyway, the campfire!! i just want to skip all the way there because it's the funnest part of all. ok ok we gathered around the fire in our classes.. and did lots and lots of cheers. lemme type out the 3/2 cheer here: (warning - lameness and cornyness coming up)

We will, we will rock your head
'til you're dead
all the way to sec 3/2
while you're there
cut your hair
if you're botak we don't care!

[pause]

we bang, we bang
oh baby
when we win, we win
we go crazy, 'cos...

we're 3/2 the mighty one
we're 3/2 the super one
3/2 the mighty, 3/2 the super
3/2 the number one!

5, 6, 7, 8
we are 3/2 from HIJ
dananana
we came together to make you lose face
dananana
when we look at other classes' face
dananana
we will win until you faint
danananahey hey, we're 1st place
dananana
move aside, cos we're coming your way! hey!

[pause]

(clap) 1, 2
1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3, 4
3/2!!

it doesn't look so corny from here, but when you say/sing it out it's very very lame.. but fun to sing anyway, hahah. we practised really, really hard.. a lot of times too.. but in the end we didn't win. sigh. oh well. i think the 3/5 cheer was quite cool anyway. i dunno why 3/4 won, i think 3/5 should have won, their cheer was really cool.

it was disappointing that we didn't win, but at least we had lots and lots of fun... :):) the campfire ended off with the ij spirit song, and a really loud cheer for sec 3s.

so i won't be judgmental and cheer for my class, because i think all classes are great in their own ways. :) so here's a cheer for all sec 3s...

SEC 3s ROCK!! WOOHOO!!!!

well after the campfire we went to the canteen because my class wanted to hear a ghost story from one of the instructors, but he insisted that we go and wash up first just in case we get scared later.. o_o; so i brushed my teeth, etc etc, then we all slacked in class... the guy said he would come up, but in the end he didn't, but then later on we heard that someone was telling a story in the canteen, so some people went down.

but then i saw an arc gathering in 3/1, so i went over to join clarissa, anne marie, gloria and novita where gloria told the really lame ping pong ball story. oh man. and i told clarissa, novita and anne marie the mickey mouse joke. heh.

it was almost lights out then, so me and gloria went back.. i tried to sleep, but the rest were all talking so i couldn't.. suhui and yvonne were already back, it turned out that mrs nicholas didn't allow the instructor to tell the ghost story.. i think she was afraid we might not be able to sleep. so we just talked. and got high. laughed a lot. i intended to sleep early, but i laughed so much until i only slept at around 1... and was forced to wake up at 6.30 the next day. haiz.

3rd day

boring. had to wake up early because everybody else did. suckers, it was only 6.30 and the wake up call was at 7!!! i was forced to get up and wash up.. but of course, after that i went back to sleep. :D for a while, at least, before i was rudely waken up again by people talking and moving around..... so no choice, went to pack my sleeping bag and clear up my stuff, pack up etc so there will be less trouble later...

we came down, had breakfast, had an activity called the giant roti prata.. which really really sucked because:

1.you can't breathe

2.it's very hot

3.everyone stinks.

when we were broken up into groups of 3 classes each and had to do the roti prata thing, my group was by far the slowest.. because a lot of people just refused to cooperate. i mean, what the hell. just bear with it so we can get out faster. but the other groups were being quite nice.. clarabelle even went around giving out mentos. wow. i never thought she was really horrible or anything, but i never thought she's really nice either, hahaha.

when finally we could get out.. we had a longgg debrief. then went up to clean up the classroom. then had yet another debrief, a very very long 1-hour one under the hot sun, filled out a survey, and FINALLY, we were dismissed. whew.

so that's the end of the camp. i have to say, the 2nd day was the best.

ooh ooh, i saw the start of the livewire video, it's damn cool, thanks to wyna and nat!! :):) i can't wait to see the final product man!

well.. i typed long enough.. i took one hour to type out this whole thing.. and anyway i better go do stuff for the livewire booklets. and there's homework as well. so yah. ttfn.

2004-03-06, 3:13 p.m..
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