Saturday, November 21, 2009

Charlene's Campfire Reflection

Anderson Clover Guides, Annual Campfire 2009
Bon Voyage, Journey Around the World

This year’s campfire was yet another success! Yay! J My patrol, Oriole 1st, was in-charge of doing fire. And so, the usual procedures took place…proposals and ideas, proposals and ideas…and finally, we decided on one idea. However, due to the SA1 period, we stopped work to concentrate on our studies and we only started on the prototype after the SA1 period.

Due to unseen circumstances, we could not find the fan for your fire. So, we decided to use improvise. We used metal wires to make out the shape of the fire and used twine to cover the sharp edges, however, in the end, the structure was still very flimsy. Meanwhile, I asked my patrol to go and help out at the other patrols while me and Qianci figured out how to solve the problem. However, still we could not figure out any solutions.

Nevertheless, we still managed to make the fire with the help of the seniors. We used the previous year’s fire structure and improvised from there. And so, that was our fire for this year’s campfire.

Overall, the campfire was very enjoyable and I enjoyed myself, though most of the time was spent guarding the fire. The atmosphere in the hall was very high which made everyone very ‘high’ and thus, making the whole event a meaningful and enjoyable one indeed. Everyone’s hard work and efforts had paid off! J I’m sure everyone enjoyed themselves tremendously that night.

Charlene, oriole 1st

Dimeng's Campfire Reflection

Campfire reflection
Anderson Clover Guides Annual Campfire 2009

COMMITTEES

Backdrop:Everybody worked v hard in doing this backdrop. From buying, to painting and cleaning, it was really tedious. But i think everyone in the backdrop patrol did a very good job. No one complains or grumbles, keep it up! XD

Gateway:Nice designs and structure. Although most were done by the scouts. A lot of effort was put into designing. ((: The banner was very nice too.

Fire:Hall deco cute. Although the fire was not real but it was really nice.

P&P:Everyone worked hard in preparing in booklets. End product turned out to be v nice indeed.

R&R: Food and refreshment was good as usual.Thanks to seniors who had help us in the home ecos room.

Souvenir: The hardest and most tedious of all. Met with many obstacles and problems, but we pulled it though!( Although we worked to the very last minute to produce the souvenirs) Big thanks to a lot of seniors who had helped us. And of course, SHARON's patrol for working so hard.

PERFORMANCE

For the Sec2 : This is the first time you all are performing as Anderson Clover Guides. Everyone did a good job. Ultimately, i hope everyone of you enjoyed dancing as much as we enjoyed watching.(: Of course, the main purpose is also to bond the Sec 2. We hope it was achieved?

For the Sec 1: This is the very first year with Anderson Guides. I hope everyone is doing fine. This is also the first campfire with Anderson Guides.I hope through our very own campfire, you all will be able to learn from the experience and bond with other sister guides. Most of all, hope everyone had a good time during the campfire.

For the Sec 3 : ~.^

Dimeng

Daphne's Campfire Reflection

Campfire Reflection:

I was very Happy at the Campfire that day as it was my FIRST guides Campfire.
I love the performance performed by the seniors as it was very nice and interesting. I also wanted to be in the Sec 2 dance next year.
Though I did not feel very well on that day, I still enjoyed the Campfire very much!(:
I love Campfire and look forward for tha next one.(:

Grace Png's Campfire Reflection

This year's campfire was the first campfire I attended and the first campfire I've actually prepared for! xD
I think all the hard work and preparing for the three++ days paid off because it was really fun.
I can't really compare because I haven't been to many campfires.

My patrol was in charge of the structure and I think we did quite a good job because the names of the schools were clearly labeled and tied up!
I was quite angry when some of the schools untied the poles and carried them, but it was nice seeing them so enthusiastic.

Actually, I was really happy seeing scouts and guides from other schools coming to our school for the campfire and enjoying themselves so much (especially catholic high xD).
I think almost everything went as planned and it was nice of the band to sing huiling ma'am a birthday song!

The Sec2 dance was fun although we were all so nervous before the performance. When I was on stage, I wasn't nervous at all! and even if I made a mistake, no one would have noticed because everyone was like one big family (so cheesy).
The Sec3 dance was really good (Y).

Oh, we got our guides tee which is super nice right before the campfire too!

All in all, I think everything was successful and I felt really happy after everything was finished.
Even the preparation was fun actually. I felt like I was bonding more with the people in my patrol during that time. :D

Next year's campfire will be harder because the current sec2s would be in charge, but I hope it will be successful too!

Eunice's Campfire Reflection

Campfire reflection!!!

My patrol (swallow 1st ^_^) was in charge of backdrop this year! Last year was...uh...gateway, yeah...
Anyways...I LIKE THE BACKDROP
we put a lot of effort into it
pity it was too long
then the bottom was folded up and everything...so we rolled up the top (covering the theme and birds)

got paint stains! :D on my shoes, socks, pants, shirt, skirt...haha
got scolded...but nevermind:P its paint after all

the xiao ren very cute!!!
finn ma'am draw one
so sad the ma'ams thought is Casper behind a brick wall...
its so cuute!

finn ma'am also drew the words(the cursive ones at first)
then it couldn't be seen
so change to block letters with aluminium foil
but i prefer the cursive, its pretty :)
why not wrap the cursive in aluminium foil???
oh ya! too small... :P

lots of help were offered to us...painting the hot air balloon...
thx a lot! :D

the campfire was fun!!!
I LOVE CAMPFIRES!!!
last year one was more high though...dunno why
don't bother that statement.

oh!
and i was in sec 2 dance.
i was very nervous at first
then miraculously, i smiled through the whole thing (yay!)
so it was a nice experience after all
you wont really care about the audience
they actually add to the beat! :D

okayys...i think i over wrote
so thats it, yeah
buhbyee

~eunice :D

Jing Pei's Campfire Reflection

Below is the campfire reflection:

Bon Voyage - Journey Around the World
This my second campfire in anderson clover guides. It was a rather fun and enriching experience. Mynah 2nd was incharge of souvenirs. We had to come up with 3 designs for each souvenir. It was really tough as it is very tedious. We had to run to many places to buy the stuffs. However, at the end of the day, we had to redo every thing at the last minute.

At the second last day, the seniors all came back and all our souvenirs were rejected. We had to redo it all over again, and this time it was really short time. Many of the souvenirs had last minute changes. However, a really big thank you to Sharon(My2 PL). The sec 3s really did alot of things for us, they did most of the work which was really commendable.

During the campfire, the atmosphere was really very high. Loved campfire and all the scouts and guides were really very high also! There were also nice performances etc :D

Me and Yi Ling were also the dance i/cs for sec 2s. We had to choreograph and show it to the seniors before teaching the rest. It was really hard to teach the rest as everyone learns at a different speed. We met up several times to practise dance. We also edited the dance several times even at the last minute. At first, we were all those don't dare to dance kind. However, it was really ok to dance on stage during campfire as there was the mood. Overall, sec 2 dance was a success :D

Overall, i really enjoy campfire alot. It's one of the best part in guides. Really looking forward to next year's campfire.

JingPei
Mynah 2nd

Kwan Hong's Campfire Reflection

The campfire was a nice experience to have. The refreshment duties are quite fun too as we can see the food before others ate them and that my friend and i got to serve drinks to the principal and staff. I did not get to see all the performances but i was glad i got to see at least the last part of the performances thanks to the arrangement of swoping duties half way through. The lightings of the performances is nicely done and the backdrop stood out. Generally, it was nice to had been there on the campfire's day.

Jia En's Campfire Reflection

Campfire 2009, Bon Voyage.

We put in a lot of effort into it, like meetings every day for the first week of june holidays. My patrol was in charge of P&P, and huiling ma'am cut out the cardboard into circles and we painted it and glued them together. We had to touch up on the paint a few days before the campfire. Paper helicopers were also cut out and pasted onto the cardboard. Just a few days before the campfire, huiling ma'am gave kf2 encouragement cards, thankyous! (:
I think the campfire was well planned and organized, as we finished everything before the campfire :D

Jia En
Kingfisher 2nd(:

Sirachar's Campfire Reflection

Campfire Reflection 2009

During the middle of June, Anderson Clover Guides had organized an annual campfire based on the theme, ‘Bon Voyage’. It means , ‘Journey around the world’. During the June holidays, as in a week before the annual campfire, we had to sacrifice some of our time to come back to school to help out in the incoming campfire. We realize that all our hard work through these days suddenly seemed insignificant. All our sweat and toil was worth this one shining moment of happiness.

Everyone was high during the campfire, especially those who had attended the campfire. Not only did they enjoy the activities that we had organized, they also played their part by making the campfire a success. They cooperated with us, volunteered themselves to join the activities and lastly, we all shared our joy and laughter with one-another. What has captivated me the most was the dance performance, performed by the sec2 and 3s. It briefly stole the audience’s attention and admiration, as their movements were awesome. Almost all the moves were perfect and there were hardly any mistakes made. At the end of the performance, everyone clapped enthusiastically, showing their appreciation.

The minute tickles from time to time, it seemed that the campfire had passed in a twinkling of a eye. Sad to say that campfire has ended.



SIRACHAR :D
2/6
Oriole 2nd

Genevieve's Campfire Reflection

Its Aguides campfire again!! I have been looking forward to this campfire. Its my second campfire. This year , the campfire is about Bon Voyage and the patrol that i am in is in- charge of R&R. In R&R , we had to prepare food for the guest and VIP to eat and also make a guest book for the guest to sign. We invited a lot of schools and also our own uniform groups.

We started to prepare our campfire 1 month ago , so that we would have enough time to do everything. We went to help other groups as the food can only be prepare on the day of the campfire.We went to help the backdrop patrol . At the end of the day , we had to used a lot of thinner to wash away the paints on the brushes and paints on our hands and legs . Its fun as this is my first time painting a big backdrop.

Its weeks to the campfire .We got to practice for dance and the sec3 too . Its our first time performing on the stage. Its fun and exciting.
The Raffles scouts came to help us to built our gateway.
We baked some cookies for the scouts that came to help us. We also started to make our guest book. On the day of the campfire, we had to go to school early to finish up all the things.

we started to make the food for the campfire and rush to finish our guest book as the it was not done . After that we then found out that the guest book is too small and we had to redo it.We quickly went to find cupboard and paint colour on it . Our ma'ams came to help us . Finally thanks for everyones help we could finish in time and we were all very happy. Everything is done and we got our new guides tee .We wear the guides tee for the campfire.
We had a lot of fun during the campfire. I have
learnt that team work is important .

Jing Yi's Campfire Reflection

JingYi's Campfire Reflection on


Bon Voyage
Journey Around the World


The 2nd Campfire of A* Guides that I've attended ! This time Oriole 2nd was in charge of Gateway, while last year we were in charge of fire. The only thing we really had to do was the banner, since the Gateway was going to be done later when the Raffles Scouts could come and help. However, since there were 2 patrols in charge of Gateway, not all were needed to help. In the end, we had to walk around and ask other patrols if they needed help. Mostly, we stayed and helped out at the Structure, Souvenir and P&P Committee. On the day that the Raffles Scouts came and help with the Gateway, I wasn't present since I was helping out at other Patrols.

Before the campfire started, I was one of the few who were ushering the visitors in at the gate. When the campfire was about to start, I had to rush to the hall because I realised that all the other Sec2s involved in the dance had left . However, much to my relief, I realised that the campfire had not started when I arrived at the hall.

The Sec2s dance was not really synchronised . The music had started before we were able to stand at our positions and the timing was way off. However, it was really fun, even though some of us forgot our dance moves, and some of us had to rush the dance moves out to be in time with the music. It was really enjoyable since the audience was really "high" and it allowed me to not feel as stressed about the incorrect timing . The other performances were great! I really enjoyed myself at the campfire this year :D .


-JingYi :D

Ying Rong's Campfire Reflection

This year's theme is "Bon Voyage, Journey Around the World". It's my second campfire with A Guides. I was in the Gateway committee. Since I had been in the Structure committee last year, it was a welcome change and a new experience. Also, since I am Sec 2 now, I joined the Sec 2 dance, the opening performance. It's very different from last year, I think.

First, we (the 2 patrols in the Gateway committee) brainstormed about ideas for the gateway. We wanted it to be a challenge, but not too dangerous and it had to be easy to build. So, the first few ideas we came up with were rejected based on any of the above grounds. However, we came up with the idea of a "swinging bridge" we felt exciting enough and the seniors thought safe enough. It was quite complex, the system of ropes, though I was not unduly worried.

The Sec 2 dance team consisted of about 12 people, of which 2 were the ICs and 2 knew the dance well enough to be sort of an IC as well. The first session we watched the four of them dance to Insomnia by Craig David. The next few we learnt the steps of the dance. The actions were simple enough but it was hard to remember all of them at one go. Then, the ICs decided to change the ending but I was not affected seeing that I haven't learnt till that far, anyway. So instead of just Insomnia, we were dancing to Da Zhang Fu as well. I kind of enjoyed dancing and pretty soon the actions came almost naturally except that I still needed some reminders about the middle part.

The gateway committee seemed to have nothing else to do after the banner was painted because the actual gateway could only be built on the day itself. So most of the time, the gateway committee was helping other patrols, with the exception of the two PLs who did a little touching up on the banner. I spent much time with the structure committee and the souvenir committee.

The Sec 2 dance altered again on the very day of the campfire. The Insomnia part and Da Zhang Fu ending were both lengthened and additional dance steps added. The dance was still easy to do although I was flustered about the change at the eleventh hour. Of course, now the dance looked much better and the music flowed less abruptly between songs. That was what the seniors wanted.

I didn't actually help during the building of the gateway, but I was tucking in the loose ends of rope and checking for unstable parts after it was built (and when the builders left - I didn't even know they already came, since I was with structure, which was the second patrol furthest from the gateway. Naturally I didn't see it until I was called to help out). It was quite stable and the only difficulty was finding were to stuff in the loose ends of the rough rope. Then I was sent to help the other patrols again.

The campfire itself... well, maybe all things considered it might be a success on our part. Though some things didn't go quite right. Like when somehow someone from the PA crew played Insomnia when the singer started singing (so we missed our cue to go onstage, which was the music part, no singing). No, I don't blame them since we wouldn't even had any song if they didn't help us. The gateway was really exciting though there was a problem when we were taking it down. And the Sec 3 dance was great! Everyone knew the song Nobody. It was really fun, being the performer for once whilst being an audience as well.

Ying Rong

Aisyah's Campfire Reflections

Bon Voyage (:

This year's campfire was awesome :D It's my second campfire and i had loads of fun !
My patrol was in charge of Structure this year . To me, this year, we had lesser time for preparations compared to last year . It was very rushed but thankfully
everything turned out great . So did the Sec 2 dance ! We did not have much time to practice the dance but as nervous as we all were, i think we did great and we all had loads of fun dancing !

We also got our new Guides Tee ! and i think its uber nice .

Also, i managed to bond with the sec 1s and other guides .
There was not much performances as compared to last year, but the games and our energy made up for it .
Overall, it was greaaat fun and
i cant wait for next year's campfire ! :DD


- Aisyah ! KF1 (:

Jia Hui's Campfire Reflection

Campfire reflection

4th june 09 Anderson clover guides campfire was an exciting and busy day.
The theme was Bon Voyage journey around the world. Everyone was getting
ready the final preparation to be done and getting all the things ready for
inspection. I feel elated that our efforts paid off and the campfire went
smoothly. The structure looked wonderful, it was really shaky but I like it
alot. The first time I went through was was really scared but I enjoyed it
and realised that it is very fun and i went through it many times. Im sure
everyone was super happy and hyper that day. There were alot of
screamings and cheerings going on. I cheered as loud as I could but
thankfully I did not get sore throat. I loved the games part, it was quite
humourous and entertaining. Not forgetting our own dance too, it was quite
nice too. I like the structures hung in the hall, it was colourful.

The preparation part was tough especially when the sun shines in and everyone
was perspiring. I feel tired. Everyone had to help out in her patrol or assist other
patrols which needed help. There was much to do. I had to run errands to buy the
required things, help other patrols to paint,wash the paintbrushes, paste the
letters etc. My hands and shoes are stained with paint with a few specks
here and there. I have learned alot of things teamwork for example in tying
the poles and structure and removing the gateway. Tying the poles to the
bench requires one to hold on to the pole and one to tie the knot tying the
structure also requires help from others. Removing the gateway requires
many people's help and alot of teamwork. We had helping hands from
others too. It scared everyone that we had to bring down the poles from
such a great height but everything went smoothly. I have learned to take greater
responsibility and help others whenever they needed help. This campfire was
certainly a memorable experience for me.

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

Yu Yan's Campfire Reflection

Name : Chua Yuyan ( 1/5 )
Oriole 1st Coy

Campfire Reflection
I think that the campfire was fun , and the effort we all made paid off in the end. Everybody was especially high on campfire night and i think we made it by making them enjoy our Clover Guides campfire. I was guarding the fire, and i thought it was really difficult to guard it when songs which make people run all over the place comes along , because everybody will be running and then banging into me. :D

Shi Hui's Campfire Reflection

Aguides Campfire2009: Bon Voyage


Campfire 2009 has just ended. This year’s theme: Bon Voyage, means the desire to take everyone that comes to the campfire to travel around the world with us. Our emcee this year is Cheryl and Junisha. An applause to them on a job well done.

My patrol, Mynah 1st, was given the committee of Gateway, along with Bixia’s patrol, Oriole 2nd. This was the first time that we were working as 2 different patrols, and the experience was new. We had a hard time deciding on the design of the banner, but we chose the cute one that Bixia drew. The one with the bean. The whole result came out nicer than I imagined, and the credit goes to the designer, BIXIA!!! (Bixia, I love you)

Our gateway was done with collaboration with the scouts from RI01. Our gateway was a cool one, with a ‘swinging’ platform. It was done in less than 4 hours, but the scouts had to make a second trip back, and we really must thank the RI01 scouts for coming to help, although they weren’t able to stay back for the whole campfire.

Through this campfire, I now understand how it is to lead a patrol to do a big job. I was really fortunate to have the help of Mynah 1st, Oriole 2nd and Bixia with me to complete this job. Thanks to BIxia, members of Oriole 2nd, and my patrol members: Shanice, Kay Jan, Jia Hui, Ying Rong, Jia Min. Thanks for the enjoyable memory on my last campfire.

Pei Yun's Campfire Reflection

Peiyun's campfire reflection

Anderson Clover Guides annual campfire 2009, Bon Voyage, Journey Around The World! MY patrol was in charge of gateway. The gateway is very nice!! I like the swinging platform in the middle =) Very unique and special. The banner looks very cute. Besides these, there was nothing much for gateway so we went to help other patrols with their preparations.

During the actual campfire, everyone was very high and enthusiastic, screaming and having fun throughout the whole campfire. It feels great that the campfire is turning out nice after all the preparations done before it. Enjoyed the sec 3 dance tremendously! Sec 2 dance was kind of screwed up… at the start of the dance, the music seemed weird and everyone was kinda confused. Overall the campfire was fun and I learnt many things from the preparations. Looking forward to the next campfire =))

Umairah's Campfire Reflection

Campfire reflection 2009:bon voyage

This year my patrol did fire and I was not very sure of what to do as I had never been involved in the fire commitee before. We did the decorations for the hall and the fire that was to be in the centre of the hall.Though the process was long and tedious, I very much enjoyed the fruit of our labour, which was the campfire itself. However my patrol and I spent more time on the decorations than the fire as we did not really know what to do.The preparation of the decorations was a bit difficult as well as some of the items had to be coloured before hand and some of the cardboard was hard to cut.We also had to ensure we did not end up cutting the decorations in half or spoil them. As for the fire, I had a mistake of buying the wrong shade of brown and had to paint the item over again. Deciding where to put up the decorations was also a bit of a confusion as some of the decorations could simply not stay in place and the position of the decorations was also changed from twice.
However, though I went through all this, I was glad that I had a patrol members that I could count on. I really enjoyed the campfire and learnt a few things along the way as well such as teamwork as well as self initiative. I learnt that it was important to work together so as to finish a task quickly. As for self initiative, I learnt that we should help one another if we ourselves have nothing to do.
Overall I think I have learnt much from this campfire and I really look forward to next years campfire!
Umairah
Oriole 1st

Jing Wen's Campfire Reflection

Jingwen's campfire reflection
Oriole 1st

BON VOYAGE
~journey around the world~

This is my second time to have prepare for annual anderson clover guides campfire.Our patrol were in-charge of Fire committee,last year was R&R committee.And i felt that Fire committee was more relaxing and fun somehow.....because i get to colour the hot air balloons(:

I think this year is quite rush because we only have a weeks or a month,i forgotten but still quite relaxing.Hall Decoration is fun! I get to design the hall but i still get frustrated at some moments because there were some problems we were facing like example the "Fire" itself was rejected then we have to use the previous year "Fire", and put some bricks and charcoal wood around the "Fire".We also have to paint abit. I felt quite sad because we can't use our own "hot air balloon Fire".

On the campfire night i felt it was not as high as compared to last year. But still, we still make an effort to make the campfire successful(:

Our Sec 2 Dance was abit screwed at the beginning of the music whereby a few seconds of the music got cut off. Result in, the first few steps were also screwed.So i think we might need to be more cooperative with the PA crew. I think i can improve on remembering the dance steps and putting more effort.

And Sec 3 dance was Great(:
I love the dance and the songs too(:

I think it was a very good opportunity to do different kinds of committees and learn different things. At the same time learn how to solve problems and learn from our mistakes.

I'm looking forward to our next campfire 2010.....
Hope we can done even better next year(:

Kay Jan's Campfire Reflection

This is Kay Jan from 1/1.. :D


I think that the campfire is very enjoyable although the process was very tough. I find it regrettable as some of the schools came late and we could not catch the starting of the campfire. I felt very relieved but sad when the campfire ended. I found it sad because it was so fun that I didn't want it to stop.

Gladys's Campfire Reflection

This is gladys here by the way (:

My first campfire, theme called BON VOYAGE. I thoroughly enjoyed myself except for the fact that since it's our campfire, we have to do preparations and stuff like that. It is a great experience and i love it as i finally learnt, team work is very important. My petrol, which is swallow 1st is in charge of the back drop. Although there were wet weathers, i feel that the back drop is nice! We put in alot of effort into it. Although i missed alot of meetings due to my piano lessons, the rest were fun. I learnt that we must be fast in our work or else we wont get a good ending. Well, all good things come to the end. I enjoyed the friendship dance and the thousand legged worm dance as it was very fun but i tripped over the wire. The campfire is quite rush, but still, we get to enjoy. Our hard work is paid off. :D


Gladys Tan
Swallow 1st
1/5
:D

Vanessa's Campfire Reflection

hello (whichever) ma'am!:D

vanessa's campfire reflection

BON VOYAGE
journey around the world

this is my second campfire already! time flies~
it felt a bit different preparing for campfire as a sec 2 guide, because it wasn't just following instructions, but passing them on to;D KF2 did P&P again, so we have experience in that area. i thought that this year's campfire prep was more relaxed than last year's,maybe because our patrol had a less 'turbulent' time with the seniors this year lol.

definitely, there were mistakes made. there were inaccuracies in the measurements of the drawer, and we had to alter it so as to allow the drawer to work. the painting was irritating as it took so long to dry and the (red&blue) boards kept sticking to one another,causing some of the colour to come off and the helicopters didnt want to stay in position. nevertheless we pulled through, but on my part, i think i could do better by tracing the word template more neatly on the 'globe' and taking more care in ensuring accuracy of the measurements.

campfire night i didnt think it was very high.but still, it was our very own campfire to be proud of;D
sec two danced was er, SCREWED.
the music got screwed(few seconds of the music got cut off) so the steps initial steps also screwed.
we weren't in sync and we danced not exactly in accordance to the music.
i think i can improve by putting in more effort and time into the dance.

sec 3 dance is awesome;DDD

hope that i will learn from my mistakes and that campfire will be awesome-r next year!

vanessa(:

Junisha's Campfire Reflection

CAMPFIRE - 4 JUNE 2009

To me, the campfire was a great sucess although we had to go through many preparations. Firstly, we had the sec 2s dance. We had to practice many times and stayed back for long hours just to perfect the dance steps and to synchronize with each other. This causes many of us, sec 2s, to bond with each other more.

As for our patrol, we were in charge of backdrop. For the backdrop, i helped to paint the stuff and my shirt was full of paint but i didnt mind that. We had to shift the backdrop to many locations. We also had to paint in the hot sun and fan the backdrop so that it would dry much faster.

I was also the emcee for the cmapfire and on the campfire night i was very stressed out. I was worried that i would make a mistake and embarrass myself or the audience wouldnt get high enough.

On the campfire night, i think almost everything went smoothly. We rehearsed before the actual campfire so i was a little bit more confident. The atmosphere in the hall livened up when the campfire started and everyone was excited and that cheered me up a little. I am really happy that all our efforts have paid off and we all did a great job. :D

Junisha , swallow 1st

Yi Ling's Campfire Reflection

Overall,the campfire is very fun and exciting!At first,I'm also very depressed and worried as I thought we might not be able to complete the souvenirs. But, thanks to the seniors who came back to help us, so that all our souvenirs are done.Being the dance i/c, I was also worried that we might not dance well on the stage. But all the effect went well except a small error in the end.The campfire was so short but it was worth our effort for all those days! Last but not least, THANK YOU SEC3S!

yiling:D

Dian's Campfire Reflection

This is my campfire reflections:

After the campfire, I was exhausted. I have been to a campfire before but I have never organised one. I feel that the materials were not prepared and there was not enough planning.
I realised that Secondary 1s were not called for help frequently and when we asked the other guides if they needed help, they turned us down. We were left with nothing to do and were only called for help at the last minute.
The backdrop was too long. We should measure the length and width of the backdrop before starting on it.
I think there was not enough effort put in by everyone, including myself, and I think there should be more competitions to interact with the guests, including the VIPs. There were not many schools participating too. I observed that the guests were disappointed with the Secondary 2 dance as they looked like they expected more.


I hope this reflection is long enough. Thank you!

Dian Mohamed Nasuhar
1/5
Swallow 1st

Amira's Campfire Reflection

I think that the campfire preparations should be done in advance. The materials such as paint, scotch tape and other things we needed had to be bought earlier.The theme of the campfire should also be chosen earlier. However, I think the scouts,guides and Andersonians enjoyed it. The decorations and the backdrop was nicely done. I have been to many campfires before but I had no idea that organising one is very difficult. The Secondary 3s did a great job in organising most of the campfire. The theme should be more exciting so that there should be more activities for the guests.The refreshments for the VIPs can be improved.

'Amira Mohamed Nasuhar
Swallow 2nd
1/5

Janis's Campfire Reflection

For Anderson Clover Guides Campfire 2009, the theme was "Bon Voyage-journey around the world". I found that it was a very creative theme as ideas on preparing the campfire that were related to travelling came easily. Work was divided by patrols and mine patrol was in charge of the preparations of the fire. We finished our work quite early, leaving much time before the campfire, so we went around helping other patrols with other work. Little amount of patrols needed our help at the beginning, but as the campfire drew closer, there was a rush in almost all the work, help was needed here and there, all were busy. Despite the fact, the campfire ended out to be completely awesome and everyone were very satisfied. It went on smoothly other than the fact that the tape, securing the wire, that was connected to light the campfire, to the ground kept detaching itself from the ground as some people stepped on them, with some even tripping on them. I had gained much experience from this year's campfire as it was my first time preparing for one and all the seniors were patient and kind with us, secondary ones.

Janis Lim Shi Rui
Anderson Secondary School
Oriole 1st

Tai Wen's Campfire Reflection

This is a great experience for me. As this is the first girl guides campfire i had, i had really learnt a lot of things, such as managing time, do things faster, how the campfire looks like and what we have to do such as gateway, souvenirs and more. It was quite busy while preparing for the campfire, so another new experience for me.I also learnt some campfire songs that we sang during the campfire and you have to be very hyper when singing so that you will feel very happy. I also saw how much effort the seniors have put in for this campfire. I feel more relaxed and happy after the campfire ends as it was done smoothly and our effort have paid through.I also saw how?enthusiastic?the sec 2 are and they really enjoy themselves in the campfire. I also like their dance performance as well as sec 3 dance. So to know that we have to dance next year, i feel quite nervous already . So i hope that this experience will help me in whatever i do, regardless of academic or?behavior, and it was?definitely?a very good opportunity to learn something new.

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Chew Tai Wen, 1/1, Mynah 2nd