Yes because i am a nice person,
i do believe that i owe you guys a nice long post.
Which would be undoubtedly be full of crap, that IN MY HEAD, has a relation to the topic i was talking about.
yep.









get ready.








here it comes.












no turning back now.












ready?












sure ?












last chance!












okay ?











frustrated yet?












you SURE you can handle this ?












okay...




GO!

CAMP DAY ONE.
Reached school at 8.45AM. WHICH MEANS, i was punctual.
ehhhh not bad not bad!
And hmmm, we met TONY and JONES, who would be our trainers for the rest of the camp.
We had to make our own nametags, with our names duh.
and poor YangJun, JiaWei and CheeLiang,
can't even write their names properly.
tsk.
ask girls write somemore.
*shake head*
LOL.

yes so after initial intro,
we had to split up into groups.
and so we formed the :D group!
Brenda, Cheeliang, Gaoxiang, Huixian, Jiawei, Yangjun and ME.
SMILEY SMILEY SMILEY FTW.
and little did i know how bimbo-ish and weird our group could get.
*sigh*

BIMBO HAND THING!!!!!!!!!!!!
(ah great memory)
(my awesome teaching, led them to being partially bimbotic)
(yay for anna)
(HIP HIP HOORAY)
(shut up)
(okay)
(...)

RIGHT MOVING ON.
We had to choose tasks to be in charge of,
and we chose the last task,
which had to be done THE NEXT DAY.
therefore, most of that day was spent slacking slacking slacking.
actually no, spent watching the other teams.
and also learning about

1. Command tone
2. Step check
3. Getting attention
4. One @ a time
5. Acknowledgement
6. Clear stage.

out of all that,
the most fun learning about was definitely ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
why ?
Because we had to make posters, with our name on it.
Then take post-its and write acknowledgements to who you wanted to write for,
and then paste it on their poster.

RACHEL OWNAGE OMG.
her whole poster FLOODED with paper.

yep okay,
so SKIP RIGHT ALONG TO DAY TWO.

CAMP DAY TWO.
reached school PUNCTUALLY again,
so i had time to play some bball before going into the room (:
always the same people playing together.
yay.

so i see my SMILEYS once again!
minus GaoXiang,
plus SingYan.

First task we did as a team,
was a sequence game.
Each team given a bean ball and they had to throw it to each other in the same sequence a few times.
yep.

So after that we had lunch,
and then another set of tasks.

OH YES.
GEMS AND OPPURTUNITIES!
(dont need to know really)

tasks again.
um.
Yep so we carried out our task.
The task/game was,

SNATCHERS.

okay it's basically trying to "snatch" other people's items by playing scissors-paper-stone.
YANGJUN so kindly pointed out that,
yes council people are deprived of childhood.

the moment we said GO, they all chionged like crazy to the other team, played SPS really quickly, and when they won, they'd run back to base like maniacs.
yep.
YangJun's demo was the BEST.

so now, team SMILEY has proved that most councillors are deprived of childhood, therefore need to play more childish games (:

Yes we ended camp today at around 6.30pm.
WOW.
dragged over an hour.
whoops.
but i enjoyed every minute of it.
cause i got my SMILEYS with me (:

CAMP DAY THREE.
finally, we're joined up with the sec3s as one.
and we had to regroup.
Retained most of the SMILEYS...
now called BANANA.
and we have...
Mark, JiaXin, Kaline, YanZhan, Keith, HuiXian, YangJun, Brenda, GaoXiang, Valerie and ME.

We had to do the first task,
so YanZhan, Kaline and Brenda weren't there.
GaoXiang was our group leader yay!

First task was to play this BULLRING game.
where a ball is placed in a ring suspended by string which the people have to hold.
they have to place the ball on top of a pole to win.

sounds easy?
But we made them spin 10 rounds everytime they are at base.
:D

SADIST ALERT.
seriously, i had so much fun watching them spinspinspin, then sway side to side.
(:

So yep,
afterwards,
we simply enjoyed every other task/game,
because we had no more worries!

Let me talk about the last task,
which was inevitably, the key point in our training,
in our bonding as one.

You see, the task was to jump together as a team, using a skipping rope, FIFTEEN CONSECUTIVE TIMES.
every time you hit the rope, or dont jump well, you have to do 5 squats.
for every time you do squats, another 5 is added from the previous time.
so 5 becomes 10 becomes 15 becomes 20.

Compared to other groups, we did quite little squats.

We beat Team Bimbo by only 7 seconds.
And they cried, because of many different feelings.

Team Banana was watching them cry from our end of the room,
and we were also kind of handicapped, because Brenda's knee gave way.
But she persevered, and was committed, up until she fell.
that's what i believe is true commitment.

But the thing is,
Team Bimbo was all crying, because they believed that they lost because they weren't giving it their all.
SO, as one team, Banana went over there to hug them and comfort them, because they were all our friends.
And im glad I did go over, because it made ME feel better that we COULD calm them down and take a load off of them.

In the end, Tony explained a whole lot of things, that are just too hard to put in words again.
So, wo men zhi dao jiu hao.
Hee.

The ending activity.
There was a rope in a circular form.
Tony asked the sec threes to step forward, and then grab hold of one end.
Then they were to stretch their arms STRAIGHT, flat feet on the ground, and lean BACK.
so they were kind of supporting each other.
Then, slowly, more and more of the board stepped in, and we took the load together.

Explanation,
this is what we wanted to be seen as.
Strong, bonded, responsible, above the rest(in a way).

That's what the circle was for.
then we set it down, and Tony called some people to the middle,
to be thanked, and acknowledged.

And then, we joined hands as he played two songs for us.
During this duration, we could thank anyone we wanted.

Somewhere through the middle of the second song,
i was like,
eh wait, WHY ARE WE STANDING OUTSIDE THE ROPE?
shouldnt we stand inside?
so i gave the suggestion and we stepped in.
At the end of the song, we all rushed to the center in one gigantic group hug (:

IM SO PROUD OF EVERYONE, and what we've learnt together as one.
For me, it was the best experience so far, at how bonded we are,
and how
fun it can be.
The values of commitment, perseverance,
honesty and trust.

I promise i'll edit this post, and elaborate more, but
it's not 11:33pm, and i have no energy to do much more.
so...

GOODNIGHT.

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