Tuesday, November 21, 2006
11/21/2006 09:25:00 PM Y
Post title :
♥ -reality check!-
hey hey!lol im back from prefects' training camp. whoots.. it was fun fun and more fun. BUT it was very tiring too.the facilitators were great.. =) i have learnt alot of things from this camp. most of all, it taught me resiliance, patience, and perserverance. how ever u spell it. the games were all fun! and it all came with a lesson and conclusion.it was really meaningful! i shall start from the beginning.. on the first day.. i came to sch at 7am to have the conexion meeting. then talked and talked.. then the council brought to big tubs of milo.. THEY made it. everyone was like lazy to take our cup and to take the drink. but they forced us to. heh. and the milo was.... yucks *vomits*. they added too too too much water. it almost tasted like water, just tht it was brown. LOL. we are drinking brown water.. haha. and quite a number of us had stomachache. including me.anyway. we put our bags in the old pfa room. then went down to the pri sch basketball court. played love ur neighbour.. damn funny.. haha. then later played splat.after tht we had to go back up.. where the training would officially start. ok.. then we had some money game. each of us had to take a card, which wrote either 1cent, 5cents or 10cents. i had a 10cent card. i lazy to explain the game here. haha. then they sorted us out into 3 grps. all the 1 cent ppl in one grp etc. so my grp was called the 10 little indian cents. haha.. my team mates were ying hua, jolena, huang chi, clarisa, hui ling, jeanette, michelle, olivia, joan ng, pei rong and chelsea. yupp.. at first we were like very quiet.. heh. hardly talk.. only the sec 3s were talking. there were other games too.. and there was this point system thingy. the first team gets 10 points, second team gets 5 and the last team gets 1 point. and sadly we were mostly last. and only sometimes second only.after a few games, we really tried our best.. but it didn really pay off. lol. until we've had it.. the three team tug of war game. as it was three teams fighting in stead of two.. there was this triangle on the floor in the hall. one side for each team. our ropes were tied to the hoop, which obviously was in the middle. so it was more harder to win..this time our team really wanted to win. and we gave our best shot. we stratergised.. then got ready. only four could go at the same time. but there were two tug of war areas.. so eight ppl in the grp would go.in total we won five out of ten rounds.. and we won! we had 20 points.. we were really happy.. this game really taught me alot. we were determined to win and we did it in the end. however, despite the win, we still came in last in the point system. but we didn't give up.. we kept trying.and tht game gave me real muscle ache on my arm. =( then at night we had night walk. it was scary!! they told us to walk up to the 5th floor.. damn freaky la.. then we had to go around the sch to find out clues to solve the mystery. and we only had a small light stick with us. but in the end it was fun.. haha.. cuz there were many grps. they grped us up into grps of three. so everywhere u go.. there would at least be a grp somewhere. this one i grped up with mathea and pei rong. at night the sec 4s came to join us.. there was another game.. which was held at the 2nd floor study area and the front of the hall. it goes like this.. one person had to run to the front of the hall there and have to throw in the hoops. blah blah blah.. then when u collect back the hoops.. u have to run back to ur team. and then everyone would have to do 10 pushups before another person can go again. and ur team has to gain more than 300 points to win the game, in 45 mins. when one person is throwing the hoops at the other side, the rest of the team members cannot talk. they also put tape on the floor as borders. who ever crosses or touches a little of it, would minus off 5 points. there were many other rules too.. so it was really difficult and tiring. total we did like 600 pushups. i did until my knees got blue black.. and the skin scraped off. i guess the facilitators wanted to see our lvl of commitment. and we really showed it! =)we came in second.. the last game i want to say is the string game. they tied the rafia strings in such a manner where u can see 16 holes in between. the four corners of the rafia strings were tied to the legs of the tables. and they gave us a thick rope and we were suppose to put the rope through every single hole continuously. and make sure tht it comes out from the last hole. the rope was like wad. 3 or more metres long. the rope cannot touch the rafia string. any part of ur body cannot touch the rafia string. we also cannot touch the tables at the side. if any of us touched it, we would have to undo everything and go outside the room then come in again to restart. and while in the room, no one is to talk. if we talk.. we would have to go out. they gave us 2 whole hours to do it. we re did the thing alot of times.. and so did the other teams. it was really frustrating esp when we were already going to finish.but we did not blame anyone and continued trying on and on. we did not give up. 1 hour 45 min passed, and no one accomplished it. at the end of 2 hours.. still no one completed it. however we were almost going to finish. so they gave us another 10 more mins. we really tried our best to concentrate and focus. and finally.. we completed it before any other team did. we were really proud of ourselves. we tried so hard.. and finally did it. it was really a great sense of achievement. our hands were all aching and we were all tired and frustrated. i guess nothing is impossible.. if we are really committed and passionate about wad we do. i was really happy.. =)then.. reflection time.. lol. i cried.. haha. my grp's facilitator also cried. michelle also cried. i was really touched.. to see our team grow so close together. i couldn help it. haha. we were from the bottom. and with our committment to the team.. we came in first in the end. i was really happy.. though to some it may be just a stupid point system thingy. it wasn really the points tht mattered. it was the process of the game. it really touched my heart to see my grp like this.overall the camp was great. i really had lots of fun.. and learnt many many stuffs.. =))
