Hello readers,
As the title stated, I am back from a fun and tiring camp. I went to Jalan Bahtera Adventure Camp Centre on January 8, 2014, Wednesday for a three days, two nights and returned home yesterday on January 10, 2014.
This camp was compulsory for all Secondary 3 students, unless you had a valid reason of why you did not want to attend. The main purpose of this camp was to let us bond with our new classmates since we had done e–streaming last year for the subjects that we are taking for upcoming national examinations. Another purpose of this camp was to let us survived without the use of electronic gadgets and also to learned values and skills which can be useful in life.
During the Day 1, the students arrived in the campsite located at Lim Chu Kang Road and unpacked stuff needed for the afternoon activities. In the camp, we are divided into two groups according to index numbers in class: Index 1–20 and Index 21–40/41. The first activity for my group (Index 1–20) was the High Elements which I was afraid to go because of fear of heights and shakiness of the poles/buildings. In High Elements, there were three obstacles: Flying Fox, Rock–climbing and Ropes Course. I did not managed to try Flying Fox and Rock–climbing but I tried Ropes Course (finished within a minute of climbing the pole and coming down).
The next day, my group went on a Land Expedition where we walked around the Kranji Countryside for the past three hours. During the walk, we had a water break where everyone stopped at one side of the road and drank up. We only managed to visit one place due to time constraint which I can't remember the name but in the building, there was a pond and a talking parrot in a cage. My group played a game and later used their pocket money to buy an ice–cream.
After coming back from Land Expedition, every Secondary 3 students had their lunch and moved on with the next activity. For my group, we went back to our hut and packed extra clothings (For me, I didn't) and changed into our water shoes for Dragon boating at Pandan Reservoir. Dragon boating was the highlight of the whole camp which was why everyone wanted to come for the camp, though they did not want to. This was my first time doing dragon boating and in my opinion, I enjoyed getting wet and I felt more bonded with my new classmates in teamwork effort.
In the night, the whole Secondary 3 students gathered at an open ground for campfire. We sang various campfire songs and each classes came up and showed skits/cheers/songs. It was really fun and the crowd went wild after DJ turned up the music that everyone knows. The campfire ended around 10pm.
Day 3 was the day where we thanked our instructors and teachers for taking good care of each and every students. We packed our stuff including sleeping bag and moved to the canteen for our last meal, breakfast. I had a bread with peanut butter for breakfast. :-) Around 12 noon, we returned to school and we were dismissed from there. Before coming out of school gate, my class took a photo with two instructors.
Although this camp was tiring, I am thankful for having classmates and friends. I learned many valuable lessons in the camp and also the true character of each and every students including friends whom I know for two years. I wished to attend such camp in future but for now, I rather stay at home or go to school for normal lessons.
That is all I have for now, bye readers!
