Pei Xuan's Reflection

Annual training camp 2008 reflections

This year’s camp was super fun! Though, under mam’s definition of a successful camp, it was a failure since we still went for lunch and shopped after training camp (:

Once we reached the Camp Christine, we started to unload our stuff and shift them to Pax’s lodge. After that we had to pitch our tents. We were really confused when pitching our tent as we couldn’t remember the steps, even though the tent pitching training was only about three weeks ago. Still, our tent turned out alright so I was pretty relieved.

Gadget making was also confusing since the 72’ poles had run out and we had to replace them with 36’. Somehow, our baggage rack ended up in front of the tent rather than the back. Lucky for us, we didn’t have to redo it. There was also a shortage of wooden mallets so we had to make do with metal ones. We had to be really careful when malleting our poles in and the metal mallets were super heavy too.

Lunch was nice and we understood Yunjin’s phobia of Styrofoam boxes. LOL. Played games after lunch which were really fun, especially the soccer game where we got out flour all over our faces . At night, we had our night game. I think it wasn’t as scary compared to last year. Our first station was Kellyn’s station which was the funniest. We went in and made some random comments and she started laughing! The dorm was the scariest station as usual. Everybody freaked out in the dorm and we couldn’t find the clue since our torchlight got confiscated. I felt that Daxaniie and Cheryl were really brave to lead the both ends, so thank you!

The next day we were late since we took our time clearing the newspapers and stuff. After the tiring morning run, we had colours. Colour party was really fun! Halfway through our outdoor cooking, it started raining so we had to save the food and everybody got really wet. Ended up having indoor cooking but our food was still quite nice! After dinner we had our campfire! It was really funny watching the other patrol’s performance. Our patrol performance was pretty confusing as we kept changing the script. So we just acted out and improvised but it turned out okay.

We managed to report on time for the last day of camp. After breakfast, we started to clean the toilets. Alot of sacrifices were made: Insects were killed. Water was wasted. Me and Chuyun mam got super wet. Didn’t know washing toilets could be that fun though (: After that was prize giving. My patrol won the most original cheer! Think everybody knows the iScream cheer already that Yunjin created while zihighing.

Overall it was a good camp. Thanks to the seniors who had made this camp possible and to my patrol for being so supportive!

Peixuan
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