Monday, June 27, 2011
Back from STC.. Ache from head to toe.. I wonder how long will it last..
DAY 1:
Fall in in school at 11.45am. Jun Guo is asked to teach us knots that are needed to use for the tents. In the end, its Li Ting and Vanessa taught me..
After which, bag check and Q&A session.
On the bus:
We sang and said cheers all the way from school to the Jetty.
When we reached the Jetty, my school had to split sit one boat and the extra 4 with Hougang Sec..
Reached Pulua Ubin:
We had to walk from the Jetty all the way to the Campsite. We had to sing and shout cheers all the way. Half way through, i had stiches which was said to have drank a lot of water by gulping down.. I told my Instructor and i walked with her while the teacher Ms Lim joined them because she was too enthusiastic as them..
I walked for a while and she helped me to carry my bag for a distance and then Jun Guo helped me because my stitches simply just cannot go away until much later..
We fall in with various school and cleared the admin things such as medical history..
The first activity we did was pitching of tents.. Girls only had 19, we built 3 tents which consist of 6 girls for 2 tents and the last were 7 girls in a tent. My tent was the one that consist of 7 girls.
Then we proceed to bathe. I did not go to ATC on the first day last year. I heard from my grpmates that it was better as the Instructors separated 3 grps to eat first and the rest to bathe first. This makes the toilet not to be cramp for us girls as we had only 6 cubicles to bathe while guys are like open shower which they can all bathe at the same time. My grp eat first. When some of my grpmates eat or cook half-way, we found that we do not have enough time left to bathe. One of my grpmate and the other from the same school, went to the instructor to ask for time extension. The time extension was 15 mins. But some of us still fall -in late.
After which, we had time for camp preparation. We had to come up with a grp name, cheer and performance item for each grp. When we has settled, one of the instructors asked for campfire committee which consist of all the 8 different schools. Each school, they need a male and a female except for Monfort and Peicai which are boys school. They joked about if there is a girl in the schools, then thats different. These 2 schools, 2 male each. As for the only girl in my unit, i had no choice but to go up.
~Wash up & Bed time~
DAY 2:
Only sleep for less than a min. Cannot sleep the whle night because 2-3 ppl from my tent kept talking the whole night. After they stopped talking, i still could not sleep. Most of us from my tent could not sleep beacuse of the constant talking between the 2-3 of them.We coukld not say anything about it to them because we were afraid we might spoil the friendship and might be difffcult to get along and the worse thing was that we are sleeping at the same tent which will make the situation worse.
We are to fall-in at 06 00 the next morning and movement are allowed only 05 30 onwards. One of my grpmates had an alarm "clock" and was adjusted 06 15 so that we have time to wake up, tie our hair and etc..
We got scolded for not greeting the Instructors the night before and that morning too. One of us said that we wanted to greet as a whole but they said it was okay to greet indiviually when we see them.
Next, we proceed on to PT. We did One set of PT & one of the instructors announced for campfire commitee to gather and do 5 BX - which was worser compared to them. In th end, we were spared from PT and carried on for our campfire preparation. Actually, we could entirely got off t ehook for PT. But 1-2 from Bowen wanted PT, so we did 20 jumping jacks, star jumps and pumpings each. After which, we form into a circle to discuss our knowledge of the songs and to familiarise among ourselves.
Then, we had our breakfast and fall in trogether. Out of the 16 of us, 8 of us have to go the Sec 2s side to teach while the others stay to teach the Sec 3s.
After which, we had a series of game cycle: Jetty Jump, Land Expedition and Intermediate Rope Challenge (3 Stories High)
After which, Campfire committee meet for the final time before the actual campfire. We did the script, arrangements and familarise the songs and run through the scripts and everything..
The most Important event.. The CAMPFIRE!!
It started off quite smooth;y, but at the ending, we kind of lost ourselves.. We had forgotten the cheers & the CIs had to help us.. Overall, it was good.
~Grp debrief and mass debrief
~Wash up and went to bed~
Day 3:
Woke up at 06 00. However on our way to wash up, we did not see any CIs sitting there. This time, i think we fall-in punctually and maybe slightly later. No mention about it.
We skipped Pt and went for breakfast. Campfire Commitee met up for the last time and talked about our performance. We were treated strawberry tea by our CI in - charge. We had two cold 1.5 litres of strawbrry tea to share among 16 of us.
Then, we carried on to dismantle our tents.
After which, it was our Area Cleaning Time. My grp are asked to clean up the tents. When one of the CIs check the foldiongs of the tents,we did 110+ as our punishments. We did the third set half-way and one of the TOs stop the instructor and we proceed to mend the incorrect sheet. Without him, we had to do at least 150 squads.
After that, my knees ache.
After squads, some of us were sent off to the toilet to clean it up. It was after so long that my grpmate helped me to tell one of the CIs that i had blisters and cramp.
I felt pain on my toes since the first day but i only told them the last min.
Then,we had awards for the best male and female campers and the best grp. My grp got the best grp. But I do not know why we got the best grp. I think its because we are the most enthusiastic grp of all?(:
Lastly, we had photo-taking session for everyone and as a squad.
Then, we separated into our own units and fall -in to wait for our instructors' instructions...
We walked back to the Jetty and the same time. But this time, it rains. We were dropped off at the Interchange and I went back from there talking bus, some waited for their parents to pick thejm up while the others ent to eat lunch with their camp bags.
~End of Camp~
Going to eat dinner soon..
Signed off,
