Bi Xia's Reflection

ANDERSON CLOVER GUIDES ANNUAL TRAINING CAMP '08!!

it was a fun and very very meaningful camp for me and i think for all of us who attended the camp.1
st day...Reached school at early in the morning feeling both excited and scared.
So afraid that we will get alot of scoldings from ma'ams!
We got the names of our Manito and loaded all the things needed onto the bus, got onto the bus and went off to Camp Christine!
First day and it was raining already. "Ahh.. Rain rain go away..!" but it didnt go away anyway and so we had loadz of games in the lodge.
From those games, i learnt more about team work and that if without teamwork, we would not have been able to accomplished what we were suppose to. At first, when our patrol O-rangers played the first game which is the rubber band thing, i think we did not have enough communication and team work and thus we were the laz one and we were not able to finish the game!
But after that, we learnt to co-operate with one another more and were able to finish the rest of the games ;DD
After that we had COH i think. Whcih quite fun i think. Coz we can sit down in a circle and talk. i wrote a note to my manito and we had nite games after that which i was quite scared at the "Our chalet" place coz i couldnt make myself believe that whoever is in the room are our ma'ams.
Some of our patrol members cried and we encouraged one another :)) That night was the first night in my life sleeping in a REAL tent.
I was so not use to it and was staring at the tent for the first two hours but i gradually fell asleep.

2nd day...
woke up and did some punishments and running. It RAIN again!!
did orderlies duty for breakfast and our patrol were late for quite a long time. We could have been faster if we did things faster and that all of us know what we have to do. After that we have outdoor cooking which became "indoor cooking" because of the rain. T>T
i did not get to have an experience of a REAL outdoor cooking.. after that we played somemore games. had dinner, and finally came the campfire!! we had an indoor campfire and although outside is cold, but it felt warm, coz its our campfire where it only consist of us... after the campfire, we played games and the games were super fun, or rather, it was funny :D

3rd day...
woke up, did a bit of punishment and ma'ams gave us instructions on what to do next. our patrol need to take out gadget poles at the kitchen shelter there. it was very hard as some knots could not be untied. we all separated the poles and then we had to reveal our manito! hehe. we pack up and board on the bus going back to school! in the bus, it was very very quiet. almost everybody was sleeping..
i think the camp was not as scary as i thought but i think it was because of the rain and that we did very little punishments. overall, i think the training camp was fun and our patrol got the "most efficient" patrol award. ;DD

bixia
patrol 1 - O-rangers