Shi Hui's Reflection

OUTWIT,OUTSHINE,OUTLAST
Shi Hui's Camp Reflection
This year's training camp theme was 'Outwit, Outshine, Outlast'.
Day one was a rather busy day. We gathered at school early in the morning, with heavy baggages and loads of stuff to carry onto the bus. The weather didn't seem that fine and added to my worry that I might not be able to make it through the whole camp. Carrying all the stuff to the bus was a rather difficult job, with heavy stuff like firewoods and charcoals to the light stuff like bags. The 40 minute ride was filled with songs and cheers, one thing that I was glad the seniors made us do, cause it made me feel less fearful of the 3 days ahead.

Reaching Camp Christine, we unloaded quickly and took our stuff to Pax Lodge. Setting up the tent proved to be an obstacle for me, as this is my first time setting up a tent. But my patrol members was nice to aid me and teach me along the way and we pitched up the tent with a few time extensions. Then was the gadget making. Baggage rach, shoe rack,clothes line, I had completely no idea on how we were supposed to make them. Qijin and I was tasked to make the shoe rack and Qijin taught me how to make the shoe rack. Thanks Qijin!!!

Next came lunch. (I can't remember everything clearly so sorry for missing out any details) The lunch was nice and after that was more preparation jobs and all. My patrol was in charge of Health and we went about putting the toliet papers and newspaper into the toliet. It was quite an easy job and we finished the job quite quickly.

After dinner, we had Night Games (though I thought we were having Night Walk). I freaked out at the dorm when Jieling ma'am suddenly slammed the door shut. I was already scared and because of that bang, I started crying. Christine comforted me and I was soon clamed down. Thanks Christine!!! Back at the lodge, we started to piece all the 'clues' together. It was like a patrol time together and I appreciated it. Sleeping in the tent was quite cool, only the ants was the thing that was hateful. Still, I slept like a log.

Next day, everything zoomed by pretty quickly. The mood during outdoor cooking was suddenly dampened by the sudden downpur, causing everyone to scurried into the lodge, saving as much of their stuff as possible. We had indoor cooking, thanks to Huixin ma'am and Huiying ma'am, who tried as hard as they could to make sure that we have the joy of cooking our own food.

After cooking was the first aid game. We had quite a laugh at Jieling ma'am and Lirong ma'am's station, where we had to act out a scene of an old man choking on FISHBALL. Nevertheless, we got over it and passed. However, I could tell the ma'ams was getting rather pissed off with our performance, dragging time and falling way behind shedule.

CAMPFIRE ROCKS!!!We had the Titanic performance and laughed throughout the whole performance. The MCs were great and the mood was high despite having to had the campfire indoors. Everone participated actively in the songs and the cmafire was announced a success.

My patrol overslept on the third day and Yunjin had to come in and call us up. Everyone was rather hysteric and the disapproving looks on all the ma'ams face made us even guilty. We rushed through PT, had breakfast and went about taking down the gadget poles and all. On the bus back to school, alot of people fell asleep and everyone was relieved to be back to their world of communication again when we reached the school.

In conclusion, this yeaar's training camp was a very memorable for me, being the first time that I am attending the camp. My performance during the camp was very bad, because I wasn't quick enough and my attitude was very bad during the camp. I will do better for next year's training camp and change my attitude starting from now.

Thanks to all the ma'ams who made this camp a memorable one. Valerie,Izzah, Chuyun, Nafeeshah, Kellyn, Yunhui, Jieling, Lirong, Zhiling, Syamira, Yiteng, Huiying and Huixin ma'ams. (My apologises if I miss out anyone)And thanks to my patrol too for teaching me all I needed to know.

Shi Hui