Thursday, January 28, 2010

1st Day Of Camp
The first half of the day which is kayaking and sea rafting, I when to compitition so I did not participate in the activities. When I went to the camp, my classmates had formed three group and each group made a raft. When they all went to the sea shore with their raft and started going into the sea one by one, all their raft fail and and dismenteled. I think the best raft is the raft made by Remmie's group.

After they all brought the barrels and poles up and I also have help them.After taking all the things, we did outdoor cooking. We cook maggi mee with outdoor stove with soild fuel and use a mess tin to contain and cook our maggi mee. We cook in a group and each group took four mess tins, two outdoor stove and four solid fuel. Each group had 5 people but we only have four mess tins. Luckily my group member, Calvin, brought a plate so we have enough mess tins to share.

After washing and puting the mess tin back, we had a game called whiz challenge. We had alot of fun. We went to bath after the challenge and we had supper and when to sleep. I could not get to sleep because there were a lot of plane passing and it is very noisy but in the end i manage to sleep.

2nd Day Of Camp
In the morning, it was 6.10am but we were suppose to wake up at 6 am. We were late and we still need to unpitch the tent. We need to do it alot of time because we did it wrongly. We ate breakfast which is bee hoon with hotdog and milo. After we ate our breakfast, we went to Sungei Buloh. That day was high tide so we cannot so much animals and incects. We went back to school and we put our things in the camp room.

I did not bring my long pants but most of my classmates wore long pants. We ate our lunch and went to CRC ( Challenging Rope Course ). I did not bring long pants so I wore the schoollong pants. I was scared of height but i did one. I of course did not do the leap of faith. We ate our awful dinner and we made up a skit. Our group made a skit about a war. The moral of tne skit is teamwork. The skit is for the campfire. The camp was alot of fun because the whole class made it fun.

3rd Day Of Camp
We did nothing much. We learn how to do CPR, bandaging and doing surveys. A lot of people have stomachache but i didn't. And lastly, I'm doing this blog.
On the first day,we did kayaking at Changi and it was awesomely fun. During the kayaking session, it rained halfway yet we did not give up.I find it really fun and hoped it never end, but it was tiring. After a short break, we had our rafting and had to build a raft using barrels and poles. My group, group A, put in alot of effort in making the raft as we kept changing plans but yet, we did not give up halfway even though there wasn't much time left.
Then there was the outdoor cooking. Me and my partner cooked the maggi and it was delicious. It didn't end just yet. We also had a whiz challenge which i found it to be the most memorable experience. My team really bonded during the challenge. It was fun doing some funny poses and actions. We showed alot of teamwork. After wash up, we had our supper. A few people were crying because the were scared to death after a horrifying incident that happened. Then it was time to shut our eyes.
Second day. I felt rather akward not showering in the morning, but we were only given time to rinse. The milo during breakfast was horrible. All of us didnt think it even tasted like one and some said the breakfast was a little bit salty. I just ate them because thats the only food we were going to have for the time being. Sungei Buloh, it was a great experience and mind freshing. We got to see different species of plants and animals. We mainly learned about the mangrove tree. When one of the instructor, Pepsi, told a story related to the mangrove tree. It was about the mangrove tree being able to control the speed and flow of water. I did not knew till it was told. After few rounds around the nature reserve, it was time to head back to school.
When we reached school we had to put our bags at the camp room and soon after that we were going to have our lunch. I find that lunch was horrible. After that we had our CRC. It was the greatest experince of my life. I did two high elements which was hard to overcome but i did it. I was soo glad after i had done it. When i was about to do the Leap Of Faith, i actually didnt have any faith in myself. But thanks to Mira who cheered me on when i was high up about to leap, shaking nervously. At last i was ready. "Jumping..." , as i said nervously and i jumped out and high. I did it, i was soo happy because i thought i couldn't. It made me realise that if you set your goals, you believe you can, that means you can do it.
After a tiring day of CRC, it was dinner. I would like to admit that it was the most horrible dinner i have ever eaten After a tiring day of CRC, it was dinner. I would like to admit that it was the most horrible dinner i have ever eaten as well as the whole class. We had to pick up our rubbish after that. It was nearly campfire. We splitted to our groups to create a skit about team bonding. We really had alot of fun and laughter while doing the skit. It was really awesome. Then we gathered to practise some cheers. Parents walked in slowly as time passed. Then it was Campfire time. I felt that the class has really bonded and i really enjoyed the campfire soo much. I really hoped that it never ended. Then it was wash up time and supper and the milo was nice. It was really a long and most fun day ever.
The third last and most final day. It felt like time moved soo fast. I felt as if i did not have enough sleep but he most shocking thing was nearly the whole class had stomach ache. I did not have the mood to eeat breakfast as my stomach was really pain. And the milo during breakfast was super nice. After throwing away th food because it was not appetizing, me and Wardah ran to the toilet as we had a stomach ache. I was relieved. The toilet soon became crowded as one by one had stomach ache. It was due to the dinner the previous day and therefore we had food poisoning. After that we had our first aid lesson and writing this reflection.
In a whole, I find that this is one of the best camps ever then our previous camp. We get to dp more things and bond more. I really hope that the camp wouldn't end. It is the best experience ever.
Nurul Natasha
anyway i forgot to add that jianing and Bob look great together. They are like the Chinese saying a matchmake made in heaven

class memo

DaY TwO:
I woke up at 3 plus cause Jing wen thought it was already 6 plus. Silly her.
Then i didnt managed to get to sleep again so we went walking around and find my thing.
Then we didn't have any choice but go back to the tent and sleep for a while till thew others are up.
We slept for some time, and even ended up 'late'.
We went to unpitch the tent, took out everything and placed them aside.
I went to helped the neighbouring tent people to unpitch theirs.
I went to wash up and then all of us gathered and had our breakfast.
It's really nice,even though it's simple.
Then it was time to head of to Sungei Bedok reservoir for the enjoyment of nature.
We saw Squirrels!They're so cute!
We had to take down notes as there would be a worksheet that all of us had to finish up.
Went back to school and changed up for CRC. We had our lunch and did some parts of the worksheet related to the nature trail.

We went to the high element thingy.
I've tried one of the high element and once on the leap of faith.
I didn't had enough time to do another, it was raining.
*sad*
I didn't succeed in getting hold of the pole thing at the leap of faith.
Buti finally managed to overcome my fear of heights!
*SMILE!*

We got our this year's class tee. It's beautiful .
It's way much better than last year's design.
We had a horrible dinner.
It was provided by the school's canteen westren food.
It's really disgusting. The noodles tasted odd, but i ate mroe than 50% of it.
The chicken wasn't that cooked.
It taste horrible.
I apologise for being offensive but it is the fact that it taste horrible.

Each of the different groups (A,B,C,D) was to plan a skit that each of us will have to present during the upcoming camp fire .
Everyone in my group took part in the skit.
We act out the scene when all of us was taking part in the constructing of the raft.
Some of us were told to act out being slackers and Jia ying, Valent and i were the 'hardworking' ones.

After the time was used up for trying out our very own skit, all of us were told to gather around and 'practice' our cheers for the camp fire.
Then after a while, some of our parents came.
The camp fire was fun and exciting.
It really cost me to loose a little of my voice but it was worth it.

Speedy and LALA told us true stories about safety. It is really something to learn from.
Shower
Had supper
Went to sleep

That's roughly the events held during the second day of Camp.

Rachael Lim Li Ying (10)

2e3 Class camp 2010

Class Camp!!!!
\Day 1:
Its finally the day where we have our Class camp which i have been waiting for quite a long time.I got out of the car my father drove to fetch me to the school.It felt awkward as i got out and walked with 1 huge bag and a small bag as every1 stared at me for an "unknown" reason.After morning assembly,we went to the camp room and we put our bags down there and brought along our Day Pack for our adventure in Changi.we quickly ran to our instructors and listened to the safety brief.We were kayaking first,and i had to partner up with Luqman,since he could not partner up with Shao yang due to his "injury".However, we were seperated because we had afew new students and they did not know how to kayak.So,i partnered up with Bruce and Luqman partnered up with William.But,it seems we have bad luck,as for last year AND this year,when we kayak,it always seems to rain heavily,unabling us to continue to kayak.Once we were done,we were told to pitch our tents,which we were going to sleep in for the night.Soon we ate our lunch,and headed straight to build our raft.We took about 2-3hours to make our rafts,but we still failed at building it.After that,we were allowed to change back into our slippers,and ate our dinner.We then had to do a Wiz Challenge.It was fun,but it was also tiring.We soon had to go and sleep in our tents.

Class camp 2E3 2010

DAY 1

Today was the day which my class 2E3 is having class camp.I was excited about it, when i reached school, i bring my bags up to the hall for assembly.when i reached there i saw my many of my friends were already there, they were also looking forward for the camp.As usual, the assembly begins, our principal start speaking but after a while the Pasteur read us stories from the bible.About 8.00a.m, miss phua asked us to proceed to the camp room for a short briefing for the activities we are having later.When we reached the camp room, speedy introduce us to three facilitator, Pepsi, Bob and Lala and asked us to take the day pack and a sleeping mat for sleeping purposes.After the briefing we went down to the bus bay near to the security guard post to board the bus to changi for water activities and we are also staying day for one night.After a while the bus came it was a old bus, the interior of the bus were like public bus, there are even bell there.On the way to changi, the bus jerked and we nearly fall from the seat, Mr David which was taking photograph also nearly fall, luckily he held on to the seat.when we reached there, there were also students there.we put our bags down and we gather together for the safety briefing.After this we went to take the PFD, the paddles and finally the kayak,Remmie and De sheng was very helpful, they help us to carry the kayak to the shore(thank to them) We moved the kayak into the sea and started kayaking, my partner is Calvin.Unfortunately, when we kayak halfway, it started raining.why is the weather like this?(sec 1 also rain, sec 2 also rain) so due to the weather we have to kayaking back to the shores.We rinse our self to get rid of the salt first and then we move to the place where we place our bags and eat our lunch, the lunch is quite nice i finished it all except the fillet.After eating, the facilitator give us our grouping for the tent, so we proceeded to the grass where we are to set-up the tent and we begin to set-up our tent, the whole group was putting in effort in setting up the tent(teamwork).After setting up the tent, we move our bags into it.Then we gather together ready for rafting, one instructor came and teach us how to build a raft and what the materials needed.After the briefing, we move to take the material, the materials given were 4 barrels, 6 pipes and many ropes.Luckily in my group, there is one boy who know how to build raft, his name is called Remmie.The idea of the raft my group built was also from him, with Remmie's instruction, the raft was built successfully(thank you Remmie).After all the group finished building the raft we carry the raft to the shore, one group after one group went into the sea for rafting, after a while it my group's turn.We carry the raft into the sea and started rafting.The raft sail on the sea, unfortunately, the raft started to break and some of my teammates drop into the sea and one of them even got her leg stuck in between the pipes and she is shouting for help, the instructor quickly swim toward her and try to pull her out, me and Remmie which are sitting in the middle quickly came down from the raft and try to pull her out too, the instructor even let her climb onto his body,after some pulling and pushing, her leg come out from the pipes, everyone was relieved.After rafting we went for a bath , change into new set of clothes and we were also allowed to wear slippers.After that it was time for outdoor cooking, we cook using the solid fuel,we are given Maggi mee, hot-dog,baked bean, vegetables and sardines and that the dinner for today, it was quite nice.After the dinner, we played the whiz challenge, we need to accomplished 70 tasks.I think this is fun and interesting but quite tiring.We went to bed afterward.

DAY 2

Today was the day, that i broke my spectacle and some of them break their spectacle like me or lose it when i wake up i got many mosquito bite and i am very tired as i could not sleep well because the itchiness of the mosquito bite keep "waking" me up, i wake many times.about 6.30a.m in the morning we wake up, we go to the toilet for washing and after that we dismantle the tent. it is very difficult to put the tent into the bag, Valent which is in other group came to help us, he is in OAC which is very familiar which this sort of thing( thanks for helping), with his help we done packing the tent. it is now time for breakfast, the breakfast is bee hoon and and Milo but it taste like milo plus caramel, the bee hoon is quite salty but it taste quite nice.Now the bus which taking us to the Sungei Buloh Natural Reserve arrived, we board the bus and set off. When we reached there, we watched a video about the animals that can be found there, and we form into our team and went to see the animals.We see the different types of animals and the mangroves.We went back to school after this for the CRC.The CRC is fun but it rain again so we have to go to the basketball court for shelter, while waiting the rain to stop, we played blow wind blow. The rain stop, we proceed back to the CRC, my turn for the Leap Of Faith is 11 but the turn stopped on 8 i think or 9 due to lack of time, so i played other elements.The CRC was fun but tiring.After the CRC it is time for dinner,the dinner is the western food,THE FOOD WERE ATROCIOUS, HORRIBLE, INEDIBLE AND IT SMELL LIKE IT HAD GONE BAD AND TURN SOUR, THE FOOD IS SO DISGUSTING.After the dinner, we are told that we have to prepare a skit for the campfire, so we get back to our team and started preparing for it.The topic for the skit is Teamwork.Soon the campfire started, some of my classmate' parents and families arrived.We performed the skit and we do many many cheers.Time flies, the campfire ended, we go to bath and we go to the canteen for supper, then we went to the music room to write the reflection, then we go to the hall to sleep.

DAY 3

Today when we wake up, most of the people from the class had stomachache even the facilitators, this is cause by the dinner we had last night, the western food .we went to the toilet many many times, some of them even vomit.We didn't do much things today actually, we watch a video to recall how to do a CPR and we also learn how to bandage for peoples.We also went to computer lab 4 to do the surveys and the peer assessment and finally we went home afterward.It was fun having camp with friends, this was the most fun and memorable camp i had and the class camp tee was so cool.

Class camp 2E3

Class camp:
~Day One~
its the 1st day of the class camp. after this and that we went on to the bus. gotta say that the bus is so old but full of spaces. we took the bus to the changi. after ariving at changi, we quickly sat down and listern to the instructors speech and carry our own kayak to the sea. i am sharing my kayak with De Sheng. kayaking was so fun. we went out the last but came in 3rd :) then the coaches tell us to rest and continue to kayak to the other side of the habours. but unfortunately, when we started to kayak to our destination, it started to rain! LOL! -.-'' its have been like this for last and this year!! hate it! well then we faster go and kayak back to the starting point. but when we reached it, the rain subside. WTH! but the coaches dont let us continue kayak so we just when back to rinse with a loong face. well then we go and pit our tent. its kinda of hard but we still overcome it. HOORRAY!!