Saturday, November 21, 2009

Yi Ning's Campfire Reflection

Basically, my patrol is doing R&R, refreshments and reception. I think this year's campfire is not that well prepared and very last minute. By the time we get into the main prep, we had less than a month's time left. Even after the idea was confirmed, we spent alot of time looking for the correct material and trying it out for a few times. For example the invitation, the first time we did we used the wrong materials, and it was not up to standard. Then we had to redo and used some other materials. It was the same for the chairs our guest book. It was very messy and we redo that for a few times. On the day of the campfire, it was still not glued properly. So we just used the thing on the table to support it. When other guides and scouts saw the guestbook, many of them said it was cute. Because there were "people" sitting on the plane, one of the scouts said,: What, last year chemistry this year biology?" I was actually quite happy, because they actually remember our last year's campfire theme, chemical AG.
For the food, some were catered and some were made by ourselves. The hotdog/pineapple stick was finished very fast. But as the bread were prepared very early, most of them turned dry and hard, so not many people wanted to eat it.
We were actually quite lucky that during the campfire, after the sec 2 dance, we managed to finish the decoration in time and manage to catch come parts of the campfire.
Overall, i think this year's campfire was fun but still can be improved.:D

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