kent ridge secondary 3
camp resilience 2008
group 1: jagabee
andrea.joell.clara.clement.atika.junyuan.esther.
zhihui.hweiying.beverly.hazman.dalila.alvin.sufi.
mr mohd basheer
it's already 9.12pm le... by right, after i break camp, i will go lunch with instructors, then head home and bathe and sleep till the next day. however, for today, after kent ridge camp, we instructors went to jurong entertainment centre for lunch. after lunch, we decided to go watch get smart, which is a super duper funny agent movie. despite our tiredness, the humor managed to keep us awake till the end of the movie. after movie, is a 24-stop mrt journey home..
this camp is indeed special to me, just like the past camps that i did. at every start of the camp before i actually meet my campers, i will always pray that my campers will be obedient and participative; thus, in this way, i will not be screaming and shouting, resulting in a waste of precious energy. for this camp, kent ridge sec 3, group 1 aka jagabee, they were a bunch of fun-loving and respectful campers. at the start, they were very quiet, with the exception of hazman and sofi, the 2 noisy male vessels. lol! and also, i appointed hazman to be the group leader.
day 1
our 1st activity was kayaking, whereby they really enjoyed themselves, as the bulk of them never tried kayaking before. joell was forcedfully thrown into the sea, haha! (sorry!) anyway, kayaking was indeed a good ice-breaking activity for my group. after that, i taught them the dance steps for tarzan and jane. they responded positively to the song, and were pretty excited. after dinner, it was kidnapped! i purposely chose hazman to be the kidnappee, so as to see whether with the absence of the leader, can the group still function properly and well. in the end, they really overcome all odds, and not only they managed to complete all tasks successfully without hazman, they came in first for kidnapped! tell me tell me who's the best! jagabee jagabee is the best! =)))
day 2
we did challenge rope course and rock wall. dalila impressed me a lot at challenge rope course. it is because although she had a fear of heights, she still attempted the multi-line traverse and pole and tire. she was practically crying and screaming all the way, but ultimately, she overcame her fear and did it! i'm so proud of you, dalila! =) during rock wall, most of my group attempted, and then mojo pull stunt on me, psycho-ing my campers to ask me to climb the rock wall to show them too. luckily, mojo was the belayer and helped me quite a bit, if not, i don't think i can reach the top of the rock wall. after lunch, we had general stations; whereby we did pole and tire, all on board, and high and low wall. my group displayed pretty great team spirit, and what really touched me is that hwei ying was supported by the entire group to participate in all the general station activities, and hwei ying also displayed a very positive participative spirit for those activites. good job to my "channel 8 reporter", hwei ying! =) after general stations, we went for abseiling. again, hwei ying managed to overcome all odds and tried abseiling. glad that you enjoyed yourself, hwei ying! after abseiling, supposed to do zipline, but in the end, it started to rain; thus, cancelled. zipline -> ghost-story telling session. most of my group was freaked out, and it was cut short as the weather cleared up and i decided to go for rafting, even though the session left 45min only. after my group constructed the raft, and there is insufficient time to go down to sea, i simulated them going into sea by using the water hose to spray at them. i can see that they really enjoyed themselves, and they were actually smiling while dismantling the raft. right before dinner, we practiced our tarzan and jane dance and cheer medley, and i'm praying hard that jagabee will pull through the campfire performance. in the end, jagabee really "get high" and danced damn well and shouted damn loud during the cheer medley. to jun yuan, thanks for shouting for me, your losing of voice proves it all! =)
day 3
we instructors balloted to see which area to clean; whereby in the end, i got to clean female toilet. i was like what the **, as i also washed toilet for xin min secondary camp last week. luckily for elaine, she helped me coordinate and washed the toilet for me, while i was writing my comments to my campers outside the toilet. jagabee did a really good job of washing the toilet, and passed the check by chee wah! =)))
to jagabee:
thanks to all 14 of you for showing me the support throughout the camp. i really appreciate every single one of your contributions to the group. i sincerely hope that you all had enjoyed camp and hope that the values that i taught you all will be learnt and applied to your daily lives. take care and study hard!
p.s. to esther, i really very disappointed in you leh.. went off, never even say goodbye to me. anyway, hope that you will get to read the comment i wrote in your camp booklet and take care and all the best in your future endeavors~
~potato will miss jagabee~
potato signing off 9:05 pm