Charlene's Campfire Reflection

Chemical Ag. This year’s campfire theme. My second campfire in anderson clover guides. I would say: “ A GREAT SUCCESS!”
Though this year we had very little time to prepare for our campfire due to the SA1 period, chemical Ag was still a success nonetheless. It was truly a memorable night for me. Chemical Ag can mean the chemistry bonding between Anderson Guides and her fellow brother scouts and sister guides; the element silver.

My patrol (structure) actually started preparation only after SA1 was over. That meant we had only 17days before campfire! Till then, our proposal was still rejected and we had to come up with new and innovative ideas. We stayed back practically every single day after school to prepare for the campfire. It was only until much later that was proposal was finally finalised.

The first week of the June holidays was spent in school for campfire preparation. YunJin ma’am drew out the designs on the cardboard and the rest of the patrol members cut them out and painted it. We had to do many times of touching up after the paint had dried and while waiting for the paint to dry, we would take a rest or help out at other patrols that needed help. One thing that upset me was that one time ma’am came and told me and Bixia not to just sit there and do nothing but instead do something to make the paint dry faster! I was pissed! We had actually just finished touching up the structures and wanted to take a break, no doubt that campfire is just a few days away. Is taking a break too much to ask of? We are humans and we need a break too! (no offence!) Anyway, the outcome of all the structures was nice! As the saying goes, failure is the route to all success; no matter how many setbacks we encounter to taste the fruit of success, it is a good experience. All the hard work put in by everyone until the day of campfire was worth it! The campfire was a success!!! XD Though Huixin ma’am only came back on the campfire day itself, we, a*guides have proven ourselves to be capable of producing a campfire with only less than a month to prepare!

CHEMICAL AG, I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS CAMPFIRE!

Charlene
Mynah 1st
Structure committee