This is GESS Camp Day 3, 11th March 2011, which I personally thought was the best day out of the 3-day long camp ever. We spent the entire day at East Coast Park, from building sandcastles (camp activity), picking up rubbish (CIP), lazing on breakwaters, getting half buried, throwing sandballs and everything else - all worth the sun burn. The rest of the photos are up on facebook!
Bloody hell, (after browsing through all the camp pictures) I really do love my class to death. There is not a single soul I'd like to replace in my class. <3
Camp was really awesome. I can't believe it's over, when it only felt like it was just yesterday. Okay, well everything felt like yesterday to me so.. scratch that.
I don't know why, but I have to say that my class is FREAKING AWESOME (..but I still miss 2g).
Day 1 was CIP day, we went to this high school where everyone was super friendly, although there was a communication barrier between us, gessians and them, the whole thing was bloody fun. We played ice breakers, games, art and crafts.
Day 2 was our so-called 'reward day', but we had to wake up at 4am (bintan time) to catch the tide (something like that?). We did sampan rowing, sandcastle building, treasure hunting (which lydia and I left halfway to do some stuff), coconut tree climbling (this too cos we're very important, talented and much needed people, you see) and campfire. Sampan rowing was swell, the water confidence test before that was kinda creepy, cos we had to sit on the shore bed which I was afraid that there were unknown creatures lurking under.. waiting to pinch and kill you in 10 seconds flat. Campfire was hot (literally too) and I got burnt by flying sparks. Hurts so bad.
Day 3 we went back to the high school to present some gifts to the students and the school, then headed to a plantation farm (which I personally thought was a mini pure geog field trip heh). The ferry trip back was choppy, but not as choppy as the ferry trip to bintan, which was horrible, as I saw people puking buckets and nose bleeding like mad. It stank and was totally insane.
Our camp instructors, Robin and Jie Min were the coolest instructors ever. Cooler than the coolest. Actually all were, really funny too. So overall, this camp was the best camp in the camp history. I
PS I agree with zeyang's post on camp. Best camp I've been too so far, and that I look weird plus of another race (no racist comment or attack here) after being slightly tanned. Ugh sucks, I did put sun block! Camp rocks(ed) ♥
Day 1 of camp we did rock wall, challenge rope courses and the zip line. I didn't complete the rope course cos I was hanging onto the pole for my dear life and was so scared to climb further that the trainers were telling me that if I don't climb higher/ go on, they would climb up to me and make me move. So yes, I started freaking out alot. Zip line was AWESOME. SERIOUSLY FUCKING AWESOME, even though my knees went jelly and I was begging the instructor to give me a second and stuff like that. So the conversation went like this when it came to my turn:
Me: OH MY GOD I CAN'T DO IT!!!!!!!!
Instructor: Yes you can just go
Me: Give me one second!
Instructor: Okay one second is over
Me: Aaaaaaaah another second!
I was grabbing onto the pole and unwilling to 'jump' off. My palms were so wet and sweating like shit that I was so scared I'll slip during the whole process and I'll die (maybe I was thinking way too much). But in the end it was reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally fun. Night trail was okay, but I was afraid to trip and fall over something.
Day 2 we had some team building activites, nature guided hike and campfire. The guided hike was so cool! So was the campfire, even though I don't think the audience were scared outta their wits, it was hilarious.
The camp made me feel so much better overall and exhausted, for I slept after I had my lunch and shower (thank god for luke warm water) for 3 hours and again for 11 hours at night. I am so gald that I went for camp. :-)
tChoir camp was awesome even though it was only for a day (or two, I think we're resuming tomorrow too). Even though I'm dead tired and with my legs aching like shit, I actually loved everything and every second of the camp, except the haunted house part. The seniors made the i-studio into sort of like a scary place, we had to crawl under tables which had black cloth laid over them and it was SO dark. The addition of obstacles (eg. seniors grabbing your leg and having the trailer of the grudge played in the background - read: screaming, real scary sounds) did not help.. I was near breaking down when I first entered the room (we had to do it one by one) and I was sitting at the entrance of the 'tunnel' for 2 minutes before one senior 'accompanied' me into the tunnel.. and they forced us to watch the trailer (which I TOTALLY DID NOT, obviously) and tried grabbing our legs again. We tried to do a haunted house especially just for the seniors but it failed. It was more to the fun side, not scary. I can't wait for tomorrow now.. we're gonna have a full-dress (I guess?) rehearsal too. :-)
Ps: I am so tired that I'm really really really moody and grumpy. I definitely do not want to complete homework. >:(
Pss: Sorry the photo uploader doesn't seem to be working right now
