izzah's Reflection

training camp was on 14-16 march. though a month has passed, i can stillremember what happened during those 3 days that seemed to be very long thenbt is now a memory etched in my heart.

right from the start i must admit that everyone weren't puttin in their best effort because we took a terribly long tym to pitch our tents and do up ourgadgets. Although the ma'ams did not show it clearly on their faces that they should be angry, many of us knew that this wasn't how we're supposed to work in a training camp. Had we had more sense of urgency, we would have done up our gadgets in a much shorter time and need not have asked for time extension.due to this, we had many activities cut off from our schedule and the mood really wasnt tt good. it was only in the evening that our camp had officially started with the activities getting a move on.then came the rain but it did not dampen our spirits in playing the games on the 2nd day. there was the coloured water bomb n tofu game and basically everyone was giggling n laughing and havin fun because we hardly gt chances like these when we can play n not care abt gttin dirty.it goes the same when all of us were in ponchos n playing in the rain, gttin wet n muddy at the same time. then halfway through one of the games,lightning striked and a loud thunder hit us by surprise. some of us immediately squat down and our game had to come to a halt as all of us were instructed to gt under shelter. tt lightning was dam freaky manz! we knew tt it was raining n evryting bt tt lightning really hit us off our grounds.ooh there was also the holey water container game where we had to use our fingers to cover the holes while one of our patrol members filled up the container. my fingers were cramping n goin into spasm by the end of tt game bt it showed how hard we work as a team in gttin the container filled up to the required water level. there were a lot of other fun games like the one

outdoor cooking on the 2nd day was also quite fun because we tried out all the food we made ourselves especially the choc cake in the orange! it wasnt really tt cooked bt it was still edible because it was CHOCOLATE. yeah although ashes gt in n stuff. our fire cld haf been better. we sld haf pt in more charcoal wood so tt we haf more ember to cook our food. n because we did not do tt, by the tym our chicken was ready, the ember was like dyinngg out and so we had to use another patrol\'s ember to cook our chickeennn. cleaning up after tt was good. i tot we had done a good job in cleaning up the area esp the sinks.throughout the whole camp, we had quite a few thrashing out sessions where we could say how n what we were feeling and from there we reali knew what was goin through the minds of the other campers. n i tink tt we sld haf moreof these kinds of session during guides so that we cn keep a constant check on how all of us are doing.now, night game...i was freaked out throughout the game even though i knew tt the ppl were just our seniors. i guess it was bcos of the storyline..emily the strange, ppl gttin murdered/killed or died in some way or another, the dark eery places, the wild thoughts goin thru my mind etc etc. too much tv i guess. anw, kudos to loo peng for leading us and being the super duper brave one during tis game! i reali admire her courage((: tis shows tt if u r in the ultimate right state of mind, u r able to realisewhat's the fact n what's not e.g it was only the ma'ams, it was only a game and the storyline wasnt true n it was up to us to decide how we wanted to view it. n in the end the story was a funny, lame story only tt they have put in special effects during the game to scare us. wahaha bt i reali was freaked out lars omg. esp at our 1st station which was syamira and zhiling's station. zhiling was like sliding out from bhind the bed and syamira had dracula teeth. and then syamira began walking towards us and all of us gt freaked out and started screaming and began running out of the dorm as fast as we cld wif our hands tied tgt, slamming the door and trying to put on our shoes as fast as we cld as though the scene was reali like one of those in ahorror movie. the whole campsite was basically filled wif our screams throughout the nite although we werent allowed to scream. it was jus reali super freaky. even after the camp, the nite game sort of like bugged me fora while.

along the way as we do our respective duties i learn new things and tt assignment of roles for tt duty is reali v impt. i learned how to reali b a better follower by listening more.food was good throughout the camp n we were very well-fed. ppl wld expect to lose a bit of weight aft camps bt all of us felt like it wld b otherwise forus. tis shows tt it was a job well done by our QM, Jie Ling!on the last day when we were supp to strike camp we found tt our tents were still wet n so was the ground so the sec 3s had to stay back to wait for the tents to dry before we cn strike while the sec 2s packed up n gt ready to head back to school wif the rest of the stuff. when we finally gt down to striking the tents it went reali fast. hard to believe that we cld strike all our tents in just half an hour. i tink it was because our seniors were telling us to dis dis dis n guiding us step by step so everyone were dead right sure what to do next and evryting cld go so fast. it was reali v satisfactory to c how we cn achieve sumth tt was byond our expectations and the key thing to doing tis is to b very very focused n serious abt it. so in the end, we finished faster than expected bt a lot of pecks were missing bt uncle gaz was very nice abt it n letting us go off wifout having to find the pecks.

heading on board the bus n going back to sch. den our jaws dropped when we found out tt we still had a long long tym till our bus came. during tt tym we did a reflection by ourselves and spent the rest of it basically sittin n talkin n tinking abt our campfire. all of us were relieved when the bus came so we chop chop, gt the rest of the stuff on board the bus n head back to civilization. the bus was dead quiet on the way back to sch because all of us were sleeping. as i stepped down from the bus i felt slightly dizzy because it suddenly felt different being on solid ground n a place so modern after being in camp christine for 3 days where there was grass everywhere. my feet had blisters after 3 days of being in wet wet shoes wifout socks n they reali stank when i gt back(x bt it was worth going for this training camp although the sec 3s had to miss sec 3 camp. i tink the ma'ams reali did a gd job in planning for this camp n tolerating our attitude during the camp. it was hard on us bt it was much much harder on them throughout the entire camp. they hardly gt any sleep n were twice as tired as the rest of us were. from this camp, we cn reali c our weaknesses n strengths n we learn tt problems r not hindrances in life, they are guidelines to success and more imptly to believe in ourselves when we say we cn do it so tt we r able to tell oth ppl 'BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I CAN DO IT! training camp 2007- an event to remember.

yours in guiding,
izzah