First of all, I'd like to complaint that my body(especially the shoulders) are ache-ing!!! At first, I thought it was just that I am not used to sleep on the dirty hard ground again. However, on second thought, it came to me that it was the punishment! Now that I recall about it, I realized that it was not that harsh at all- 40push-ups, 2 rounds around the canteen. It is just that I dont excerise. Much. And for some reason or another, the ache in my body seemed to have the ability to travel. Initially, I felt the raw sensation in my arms. Then, the shoulders and lastly, the area diagonally beneath my throat. It was like there are 3 phases- reminds me of the worm( larvae, pupa, butterfly). I wonder where it will move to next, lets hope that the sore feeling halts.
Okay, finally, lets move on to the first day of camp!
The camp starts at 9:30am but I had to wake up at 6:30am in order to help Xue Li and Cally( the Game Masters) with their games(duh). I was invited to have breakfast with another group but unfortunately, I denied their request(Sorry). For it is Cally's and Xueli's first time, so yes, some guiding is needed. The duration for the assistment was about forty-five minutes long( which includes some eating) and soon, we were bored to death. Being the muddlehead I am, I forgot to bring a bottle of water with me, so I went to buy one at 7-eleven before heading out to the school. That was when my Jie( Kimberly) called and asked me to accompany her, I argeed and parted with the others at Jelepang LRT just to wait for her. She reached the rendezvous awhile later and we took a stroll to school.
It was a little before 9 when I reached the destination and a meeting was held. It was for the route for the nightwalk and jobs for each person. The idea of a second route is came up by my Jie and we were so hyped up about it. But, it wasn't adopted as we had to walk through the taboo area- D&T room. What's the thrill if we don't walk pass that block? Soon it was time and we went up to the AVA room. Anyway, the committee came up with the third route later on( I wasn't there).
Like all the other camps, we were all grouped up. I was in group 1- Name: Fuji Apple( courtesy of Jonathan), members: Jonathan, May, Jocelyn, Hui Yen, Eileen and ME. The ex-committee member who took care of my group is my beloved Jie- Kimberly!! Yay! Next, the rules were told and we were given a camp booklet each. After the no-choice-but-have-to-do-it-routine, we played whacko.
It was kind of funny when the whacko-er could not catch up with the names being called out. Its like, everyone knows everyones' name(almost) and we had a person in mind we wanted to shout and when we heard our names, we just screamed. In the midst of the shrill adrenaline-filled high-pitched voices, one stand out from the rest, and it was Luigi's. His deep voice bellowed through the jumbled-up sounds- imagine this: There was a corridor. This corridor(the width) can hold 3 small white men from shoulder to shoulder with ease, but no more than that. The corridor was filled with little white men. Then, a huge black man came by and all of the white men had to smack themselves to the wall tip-toe-ing in order for the huge black man to squeeze through. Haha. Anyway, the best part of the whole game is that I sabotaged Luigi(HAHA!) and Jie(hehe) and a few others and had never been the whacko-er!!!
Rehearsal came next. I will talk about it later, as a whole, as there are many different slots allocated just for it.
Lunch came and I sat with the graduates( Luigi, Bra(xP), Jun Wei) along with Mr Chen. We shared jokes and I laughed till my stomach hurt. Luigi told a dirty joke. A real dirty joke. Want to hear it? Three pigs fell into a pool of mud. Dirty. Mr Chen and I laughed a few moments after it was told while Vra and Jun Wei was like, "Huh?". It was until Luigi emphasized on the mud and dirty that they pieced everything together and then they laughed.
After Lunch, it was time for Amazing race. To be honest, I thought that my group was doomed to be the last as we had a rocky start. Okay, not really rocky, it is just that we did not run while the others ran and we walked a long route. Who to blame? Anyway, Mdm Ho joined us soon after and told us some economic affairs. Like how Malaysia owned a land in Singapore. With her fascinating stories, my group slowed our pace, daring not to miss any of her sentences. It was almost like we knew we would be last, so no point competing. What's more is that we had a teacher with us and the process is the most important. But we never stopped. And we really walked to the front of our destination even if we had to make a detour unlike some other groups. We played with integrity.
A sparkle of hope flicked in us when we saw the others(2 groups) in the library( one of the checkpoints). It appears that they had difficulty completing the task given- it was to find a book of an author. Like the others, we could not find any book either. It was later that we found out that the book is delibrately slotted into the childrens' section. Who would do it? Maybe the public noticed that we had to find a book and wanted to sabotage our game. Or maybe, it was one of the members...but whoever the person is, I dont really care anymore. In fact, I wanted to thank the person, it allowed my group to catch up with the others!
So off we went, to the next checkpoint(CCK stadium). As we had completed the next challenge, we jumped from the 5th position to the 4th. The 3rd took a shortcut across the plains. The distance between us from the next is just a traffic lights time away( we obeyed our traffic rules). Our group walked in larger strides knowing that we would not be the last anymore- Mdm Ho still sticked with us at that time.
My group managed to become 3rd when the other group went off in the long path towards the last checkpoint( YewTee) and Mdm Ho offered us the shortcut. It was an adrenaline moment, especially when Vra's group started singing and running all the way across the road and they were so close to us( Luckily, there's an invention called the traffic light) and our group might also be over-taken by the other group as they realized their fault. With so much pressure, we started to run. Of course, Mdm Ho ran with us until she couldn't anymore and gave us directions to reach our last spot.
And at last! We reached YewTee third! It was a remarkable acheivement, seeing that we started off as the 5th. And it was all thanks to Mdm Ho and our team that we acheieved it.
After that, we had our dinner at YewTee point. Guess what? I ordered a Zinger Burger at MACdonalds! The cashier was like, "Zinger burger? You mean, MACspicy?" and she started laughing. It is not everyday that a customer order something from another restaurant, I guess. After making a fool of myself, I ate my dinner. I'd usually finish the cabbage that would inevitably fall out from the burger, but this time, I didn't. The sight of the gresley oil on the vegetable is enough to deter me from my habit. We travel back to school soon after( My group reached first) and began our memory game!
It is quite simple actually. There are thirty cards to remember. On the cards, there are pictures. A~Z takes up 26 of the card. While the other 4 are like, mickey mouse, piano keys, notes and toilet. The game went hectic halfway and the teachers decided to introduce a game.
We would first form a circle in a huge group. Then, one of the teachers will randomly point at one person, and starts to move to the next on the right. The first person who gets pointed says, "1", and the second, "2". It goes down at a very fast pace until one of them make a mistake. Those who did it wrongly are to do a forfeit, led by Mr.Aljunied. The forfeit starts when there are 5 in waiting. The forfeit, was to dance Mr.Aljunied's version of Banana-dance. It was very awkward and weird yet entertaining to watch.
We would first start with the stance we had for Banana dance( standing up straight, palms together, held above the head), and after that, we had to wriggle around, espcially the hips. So yes...disturbing. xP
It was funny how Taffy( Mdm Ho's daughter) sabotaged Jie Yi when she called out the wrong number. Vra, Mr Aljunied were like, "Taffy, what's your number?" And she would shout out "Nineteen!" Then Mdm Ho would correct her, almost immediately, "No, Taffy, you see the jiejie next to you, she call what, you call the next number, okay?" and gave some examples. I swear I could see her cold sweat when it was Taffy's turn.
Soon, it was shower time and later debrief.
And that's the end for the FIRST day.
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