Ziying's Reflection

Annual Training Camp Reflection
- Outwit, Outshine,Outlast -

This was my second training camp in Camp Christine. My patrol was O3, the chemical formula for ozone. We are extremely important because people cannot survive without us. Being the patrol leader for the first time, it was a bit stressful initially because I did not know what should do actually. But I had no time to bother about it because too many things happening at the same time.

On the very first day, we had tent-pitching and gadget-making. Unfortunately, my tent was just beside a tree and was on a gentle slope. Although we had to sleep on the slope, it was still better than last year because there wasn’t any hole on the tent door. The best thing was that I slept far, far away from the gadget that I don’t have to worry about ants that crawled up the gadget poles this time.

I think the most confusing part was gadget-making because there weren’t enough 72-inch and 48-inch gadget poles. Hence, we had to change all the 48-in poles to 36-inch and connect 2 36-inch gadget poles in 1 72-inch pole. Eventually, my patrol collected 48 36-inch poles. That was amazing! Nevertheless, our gadget turned out to be unique because Jieling mam said she had never see such design of cloth line before. Haha, that showed we were creative and innovative :)
My patrol duty on day 1 was to be a cook. We actually cooked fried rice. We thought it was quite tasty but many of them commented that it was too plain. I thought it was ok because it was still edible and we should learnt to eat healthily by adding less salt. (Did we add salt or just Soya sauce?)Then, the drink was actually diluted food colouring, a drink which was unique and special. I promised that it was not poisonous because I was fine after drinking a lot of coloured watermelon juice. It was even better than mine because at least your month and teeth did not turn purple like me.

Surprisingly, we had the night game on the first night. I was too timid to take part in the game that I didn’t really see any of the crime scenes. Worst, Grace cried at the first station, the toilet. However, other patrol member seemed to be more curious than scared. They would say hi to all the seniors first and start guessing who they were. They even refused to leave the station because they wanted to investigate the scenes and asked the seniors to replay the video clips again and again just to get the answer. Haha, they were so cute. They were supposed to be frightened by the seniors. Instead, seniors were the one who got frustrated because we stayed at the station for too long.

The weather this year was bad and was said to be worst than last year because the rain always came at the wrong timing. For example, during outdoor cooking on the day 2, it started to rain heavily just right after all the preparation. In the end, we had to move everything to the lodge and shared the same fire pit. The food still tasted nice especially the sweet potatoes and the bell chicken. Thank to Huixin mam who helped us to cook the chicken. It was juicy and tender!
That night, my patrol woke up at three to do sentry duty. It was my first time and was as scary as what I expected. At first, I thought we needed to walk around the Camp Christine but we were told to walk around the tent only. Actually it was the time for trainees to complain about their patrol members if they want. Being a lousy PL, I must have received a lot of complaints…
On the last day, my patrol overslept. I knew it before the camp because I would sleep soundly like a pig even if the tent fell. Thank to Peixuan who woke us up if not we would have more punishment to do. My patrol helped health patrol to wash toilet. The lodge toilet was quite clean and thank to Valerie mam who helped us out.

Since O3 gotten the most entertaining cheer, I shall shout it again to end this reflection…

The most entertaining cheer:
O3 is gonna win, cause we outlast, outshine, outwit
We’re gonna be the best, work as one and beat the rest
One more time go…
O3 is gonna win, cause we outlast, outshine, outwit
We’re gonna be the best, work as one and beat the rest

ziying
O3