15th of March 2012 at night:
I hardly got a night's sleep. I slept at 2 a.m. and woke up at six in the morning, so that was only about four hours of sleep unlike my usual eight to nine hours. It was so uncomfortable in my sleeping bag and someone who slept next to me kept snoring. I went the toilet like about four times at night with my friends.We could actually wake up at seven, but some people who came back from the toilet woke me up just to ask who we were as they needed to find out which was their sleeping bag.
16th of March 2012:
In the morning, after we washed up and all, we went to eat breakfast at the canteen. Our breakfast was bee hoon noodles and a yam cake. I basically did not eat anything at all except the bee hoon (I did not eat any of the vegetables). After our breakfast, our group was assigned to clean the toilets! It was so very disgusting and gross and other groups kept making fun of us as they only needed to clean nice places like the lecture theater, the AVA room and the quadrangle. We did not clean the toilets at all as we got chased out of the toilets by the cleaners. One of the cleaners called us stupid and another one just said we were messing up the toilets. >_<
Then, we went for our leadership training lessons. It was for about three and a half hours. Most of us in the class just practically slept because the lesson was so boring and we did not sleep well last night. It was soon time for prize-giving and all the groups got a prize. Our group achieved the Snow White prize that means that we were the most hardworking group of all.
At 12 o'clock noon, it was time for us to go back home. We said goodbye to the teachers and our new friends that we made there. We then all went home for a good, long rest. :)
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Tuesday 20 March 2012
My First School Camp Part 2
I spent the whole night packing for just that two days of my camp. Mummy helped me pack loads and loads of stuff into my camping bag that night. She must be anxious whether I would be able to sleep well, eat well, be safe..... (I can't finish my list of examples or I would use up half of this page) She and Papa even drove past my school during my dinner time hoping to get a peep at me!! ;)
15th of March 2012
I went to school at eight forty-five in the morning, carrying an enormous camping bag. I dropped my bag off at a nearby classroom and went to join my friends at where we are supposed to go. We played some rather babyish games there like Splat and Murderer. My group was named Mermaid( I didn't choose the name). I had no idea why suddenly, my group was named Mermaid by our group leader who was eleven years old. We even got made fun of by some of the other groups like Yogi Bear though their group's name is much worse than ours. :(
We then proceeded to one of the classrooms and spent one and a half hours on boring leadership training and after that we finally got to eat our lunch. I don't think I should say eat. I only nibbled at some of the rice and sweet and sour pork! The rest of the food was just all unusual vegetables that I had never seen before. After lunch, we needed to tidy up the canteen and pick up little disgusting bits of food from the floor with our bare hands. I didn't want to do it nor my friends, but we were forced to do it by the teachers. Yuck! Anyway, there are even more gross things to come!
My group then came out with a group cheer. It was like this:
Mermaid, mermaid we will decide your fate.
We will win and you will lose, it is not for you to choose.
After that, we started our fun games! The first game that my group played was called Hula-hoop Walk. We had to hula-hoop and walk all the way to another place. It was very easy and we finished the whole game in four minutes. The second game was called Make-up Madness. There was a plate of flour and each of us had to put our face into that plate of flour. We also had to smudge a bit of green paint onto our noses! That was the worst game of all. >_<
We went for many more exciting games but the last game that my group went for was the best! There was a leaking pipe that was full of holes and most of us had to cover them. The rest of us carried styrofoam cups that were already broken on our heads so we were all very wet after the game.
After all the activities, we started our water bombing! Each group had a limited amount of water bombs that we could use to hit the other groups. It was extremely fun but soon, we had to all clean up. :( Some of the groups( not my group ) got to bathe first and didn't need to help us to clean up our school.
After that, I went to bathe ( very cold water! ) in the toilet cubicles that people use to poop and pee! We ate delicious fish and chips for dinner. That was the best meal of the whole camp!
At around eleven at night,we were all still all awake doing another activity that was called Water Source. The primary three and four students were supposed to find a water source and where it would end while the primary five students were to find pipes that were hidden all over the school and connect them together. The primary six students needed to write a poem about how precious water is.
Finally, at twelve midnight, we snuggled into our sleeping bags and tried to fall asleep. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't sleep so I fell asleep at two o'clock and woke up at six in the morning.
Wait for my next blog entry and I will tell you about my next day at the camp and my horrible night!
15th of March 2012
I went to school at eight forty-five in the morning, carrying an enormous camping bag. I dropped my bag off at a nearby classroom and went to join my friends at where we are supposed to go. We played some rather babyish games there like Splat and Murderer. My group was named Mermaid( I didn't choose the name). I had no idea why suddenly, my group was named Mermaid by our group leader who was eleven years old. We even got made fun of by some of the other groups like Yogi Bear though their group's name is much worse than ours. :(
We then proceeded to one of the classrooms and spent one and a half hours on boring leadership training and after that we finally got to eat our lunch. I don't think I should say eat. I only nibbled at some of the rice and sweet and sour pork! The rest of the food was just all unusual vegetables that I had never seen before. After lunch, we needed to tidy up the canteen and pick up little disgusting bits of food from the floor with our bare hands. I didn't want to do it nor my friends, but we were forced to do it by the teachers. Yuck! Anyway, there are even more gross things to come!
My group then came out with a group cheer. It was like this:
Mermaid, mermaid we will decide your fate.
We will win and you will lose, it is not for you to choose.
After that, we started our fun games! The first game that my group played was called Hula-hoop Walk. We had to hula-hoop and walk all the way to another place. It was very easy and we finished the whole game in four minutes. The second game was called Make-up Madness. There was a plate of flour and each of us had to put our face into that plate of flour. We also had to smudge a bit of green paint onto our noses! That was the worst game of all. >_<
We went for many more exciting games but the last game that my group went for was the best! There was a leaking pipe that was full of holes and most of us had to cover them. The rest of us carried styrofoam cups that were already broken on our heads so we were all very wet after the game.
After all the activities, we started our water bombing! Each group had a limited amount of water bombs that we could use to hit the other groups. It was extremely fun but soon, we had to all clean up. :( Some of the groups( not my group ) got to bathe first and didn't need to help us to clean up our school.
After that, I went to bathe ( very cold water! ) in the toilet cubicles that people use to poop and pee! We ate delicious fish and chips for dinner. That was the best meal of the whole camp!
At around eleven at night,we were all still all awake doing another activity that was called Water Source. The primary three and four students were supposed to find a water source and where it would end while the primary five students were to find pipes that were hidden all over the school and connect them together. The primary six students needed to write a poem about how precious water is.
Finally, at twelve midnight, we snuggled into our sleeping bags and tried to fall asleep. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't sleep so I fell asleep at two o'clock and woke up at six in the morning.
Wait for my next blog entry and I will tell you about my next day at the camp and my horrible night!
Friday 16 March 2012
My First School Camp Part 1
On the 14th to 16th of March, I went for my school's leadership training camp. It was three days and one night. We went to East Coast Park on the 14th of March and on the 15th and 16th, we stayed overnight in school. The camp was very fun, exciting and interesting, though at some parts, it was tiring. We learnt to work together as a team, speak confidently in public and develop leadership skills.
14th of March 2012
We were going to build sandcastles at East Coast Park Castle Beach! :) I was immensely ecstatic when I heard that we were going to one of my favourite places - the beach! Unfortunately, I wasn't in the same team as one of my good friends, L. :(
The weather was quite bad that day. The sky was brewing with dark, gloomy clouds threatening to rain. At twelve thirty when I reached school, it was already drizzling a little. We could still make the sandcastles but we must wear ponchos though. My group, White zone, was going to build how my school was going to look like thirty years later. We were in charge of creating our school's imaginary future boarding school and chapel. The boarding school was shaped like a rocket and the chapel was shaped like a moon. Our sandcastles also needed to be taller than 1 and a half metres, compared to my usual tiny, 30 cm sandcastles. In fact, the sandcastles turned out better than I expected. :o
We started building our sandcastles at two o'clock sharp after being introduced to many different kinds of tools used to build them. We dug here and there, smoothened out the sand and built our sandcastles higher and higher. After three hours of hard work, we finally finished making our sandcastles. The sandcastles were brilliant, superb and wonderful. I think my group's rocket boarding school was over 2 metres tall!
At five thirty, we went back to our school, tired but elated. That was the best sandcastle in my entire life that I ever made!
14th of March 2012
We were going to build sandcastles at East Coast Park Castle Beach! :) I was immensely ecstatic when I heard that we were going to one of my favourite places - the beach! Unfortunately, I wasn't in the same team as one of my good friends, L. :(
The weather was quite bad that day. The sky was brewing with dark, gloomy clouds threatening to rain. At twelve thirty when I reached school, it was already drizzling a little. We could still make the sandcastles but we must wear ponchos though. My group, White zone, was going to build how my school was going to look like thirty years later. We were in charge of creating our school's imaginary future boarding school and chapel. The boarding school was shaped like a rocket and the chapel was shaped like a moon. Our sandcastles also needed to be taller than 1 and a half metres, compared to my usual tiny, 30 cm sandcastles. In fact, the sandcastles turned out better than I expected. :o
We started building our sandcastles at two o'clock sharp after being introduced to many different kinds of tools used to build them. We dug here and there, smoothened out the sand and built our sandcastles higher and higher. After three hours of hard work, we finally finished making our sandcastles. The sandcastles were brilliant, superb and wonderful. I think my group's rocket boarding school was over 2 metres tall!
At five thirty, we went back to our school, tired but elated. That was the best sandcastle in my entire life that I ever made!
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