this is gna be a super long post. but its for me to pen/type down all that has happened right?
yeap. so i had a week + 1 day long of camps. x) youth camp was a blast! shall go talk about it later~
started off on monday. had this kool kids' outing at pasir ris board (bored) walk. not say really tiring but its just exhausting looking after small kiddos and encouraging them to walk more as we're reaching our resting place. josiah taN the small cute one. he so poor thing! when he goes under the sun, he'll start the itch and get rashes. and he's only 3 years old!! so he started crying. D= so sad right.
cooling down in the car
anws. after reaching our destination the kids played the play ground and i started taking photos.
min and jenelle!
becky and rachel!
loads more pics but lazy to post them up.
so after the whole thing ended, rebecca, ming shen, hai ming and i with my parents went over to the chalet where we had our camp(: we slept in earlier cos we have leaders meeting. heh. it was supposed to start at i think 8 but we started at 10. T_T
anw. youth camp was awesome!! fantastic!! great!! refreshing!! it totally rocked my june hols. :D
1st day of campplayed a few ice breaker games and den started to have worship! after that. we were split into our groups and decided on our group names and cheers! really cool names. we had four groups. each of our groups have the starting letters nameing F.I.R.E F = Freeflow I = In R = Royal Red E = Eeits (Empowering Every Individual To Serve) pretty cool huh. anw after that we had lunch. then followed by talent time prep. we had to think of something to act or sing or dance or whatever which would take place on the second night. it had to do something with our camp's theme : Ignite we were very short of group members in our team. in the afternoon, we only had 4 members. Lucas - group leader patrick lisha - camp committee and me - agl. thats all. and i'm the youngest in the group so obviously i'll just shut my mouth and listen to their suggestions and try to think of ideas too. so anw. lucas came up with the idea of doing a skit about moses. so from there, we started discussing how to make it more interesting, lame and funny. after that was games. :DD we played 3 games in total but the ultimate charades was the funnest . ok so sally came over to our group to help us out cos we were very shorthanded. lucas was the one who guess and the rest of us tried to act out. one of them was CIP in the old folks home. we tried acting out someone trying to take care of an elderly but he couldnt get it. so we tried acting out the CIP word. chao funny!!!! we acted out C and I alr.. but couldnt act out P. it was easier for the guys to act it out but they were too shy. so i acted it our instead. pretended to sit on the toilet bowl and flush. and immediately he got it!! so clever right. after games was washing up. all bathed and stuff. after that got another sharing by pastor richard. we were all struggling to stay awake cos a 2 hour time slot was given to him and a 1 hour time slot was for group discussion so actually pastor richard got 3 hours to talk to us. the last half an hour or so was like free group time.. so our group discussed about stuff that only older youths discuss about. so obviously i've got nth to say and listen to them talk. but it was quite interesting though. that people ask questions that u wont think twice about and those questions are the ones that are diffucult to answer. and they ask questions u wont even think about asking. so yea. quite interesting. after that was lights out. obviously couldnt sleep. so stayed outside our rooms and talked till we felt like sleeping. 2nd Day
woke up and did devotion with lisha. i've been doing devotion with her for the past 1-2 years? lols. but anw. i can rmb 2 youth camps ago she was also my partner and everytime she ask me if i got things to say i will say don have.. but this youth camp i got share what i thought about the passage. haha. den got another sharing by pastor richard. talked about God's gift for us and stuff. i wonder what i'm on this earth for. we were all also trying and sstruggling to stay awake cos another 2 hour time slot was allocated to him. yea so finally we had lunch. den open session. supposed to be a Q n A session. hardly anyone got things to ask so it only became an i think half an hour thing.. after that we had more games!!!! this time we had questions about our church and some really lame questions. our group won!! whoo. but there were 2 groups who tied. so min zhi asked when was the first woman's name mentioned in the bible. the answer was debbie. cos "God said 'let there be light!'" gettit??? therebe debbie. haha. neways. al the points that we accumulated was used for a water bomb game. we splashed all our points on a 'mystery item' and a 'fortress' so the mystery item turned out to be a dustbin lid and the fortress turned out to be a table. both were quite.. in fact very useful for our game. we were supposed to protect our majong paper we wrote our answers down for the lame questions in order to win. the dustbin lid was chao chao useful. every water bomb that came our way to the majong paper, joel would use the dustbin lid and defend every single one of them. hahaha. :DD washed up after that and got ready for the talent time and buffet dinner!! we got our food. some of the girls sat outside to eat.oh yeah. and a guy sean. xD
ok den we had talentime. joel was moses and the rest of us were supporting roles. lucas was supposed to be pharoh but ben had to come in and join our group and force us the let him take over lucas' place. D= so sad cann. he practice so hard and at the last 5 min to our turn ben takes over him.. neways.. each of the groups were supposed to send a representative up and give a speech of what he/she has learnt bout the camp theme ignite. but our group totally forgot bout it until sally told the audience bout it. so in the end lucas saves the night and gave a wonderful and fantastic speech though we din help him prepare for it. ok so after that some of us (girls) played that game.. dunno how to explain the 4 beat game ahahhaha. chao funny. play until the group leaders had our debriefing and went to wash up. had very little girls left in the chalet. most of them either went back home to sleep and come back the next morning or they couldnt join us the next day. so we left about 9 girls. 5 in one bunk and the rest in the other bunk. rach and i decided to go over to the other bunk to sleep with them cos it was more fun that way. becks and i couldnt sleep so we went to.. drink water? haha yes. drank water and talked to ywee ern. we had a few songs stuck in our head and we only knew the chorus so asked him for the versus. hahaha. talked until 12 he made us go sleep. Zzzz...
3rd Day
woke up and did the usual stuff. ate breakfast.. and played game again!! wahahahha. but by now everyone was pro in that game alr so we hardly made mistakes. about 10 am some adults came to pick up our stuff and brought them back to church cos we were going for Super Natural Ex. we took a bus to white sands to have lunch and after that 2 groups combined, so we were left from 4 groups to 2 groups, and we headed off to different routes but going to the same location. and and pasir ris park has a horse stable! din knew that. one of our tasks were also supposed to play with everything there was in the playground. quite fun! ahhaha. neways. we met up with the other 2 groups at the amphitheatre (how d'ya spell it??!) played 2 games. supposed to be 3 but ohwells~ shall explain later. anws. first game was that the girls were supposed to shampoo our hair and and the guys had to collect as much foam as possible from our shampoo-ing and put the foam in a bucket a distance away so the goup with the most foam wins! so we all shampoo-ed like crazy about or more than 10 mins. first time i wash hair so long.. hahaha.. and our group won!! yeahh we rock!! both the guys and the girls. cos they say when u put the foam in got method one.. x)) and our group's bucket was filled to the brim with foam while the other group's only had theirs filled 1/4.
second game was quite a lame game i must say. don really know how to explain it. some kinda splashing water here and there game. where one person from each group runs and either try to fill up their pails with water or splash the opponent with water. anws. our group was kinda slow so the guys were wet. haha. so we were supposed to play a game which involves the guys' leg hair and those with as much foam as possible wins. but they din play it cos i think too little of the guys had leghair.. ANYWAYS. we were suppose to take the other group's route to go back to church but we were running out of time so we all just took the short cut and took the mrt back to church where we had a camp debrief and sharing session. after which was followed by dinner. we had to rush cos i had tuition right after that which i was late for 15 mins. couldn't really concentrate. xD 1 question teacher asked : what is one problem you probably will face hanging a person? answer from a guy : no rope. lols!
neways. after tuition as usual reached home ard 10. gta go on9 to send mel the gb pack list tsk. den still needa bathe. so slept ard 11+.
next day woke up at 7+?? to go to malaysia. packed stuff and headed off!! whee~!! had lots of fun there. ^^ outside the hotel rooms were tables and chairs where we gathered for breakfast and dinner! oh!! they had a bowling ally so we went there to play on the friday evening. played until parents wna go eat dinner but we just started a new game! so they left without us and leave us to play. after bowling we went to play table tennis. was quite okay.. xD it was alr 7++ 8.. so we were getting a little bored.. returned the ping pong balls and bats and chatted. chat till 8++ sally's mum called her. she said that they just ordered their food. we all were like.. wth???! so we went up to the outside the rooms place. dunno what's it called. and we also din have any of the room's keys. tskk. so we just stayed outside there, played games and at 9+ the adults finally returned and all of us started eating. ahahhahaha.
on saturday, we packed all our stuff and went off to the usual place where we'll eat our last meal in malaysia. the food there is very nice! and i think the bill came up to be only 174 for 2 tables! (i think it should be $174 not 174rm) haha. neways, our family headed back home to change and rushed off to church. dad was in a bad mood cos he was 'late'. like it's all our fault liddat.. tsk. had church went to eat dinner den went back home. decided not to go over to sch that night cos i figured that if i went there, i would only go there to sleep so might as well stay at home and sleep right.
so on sunday dad drove me to sch and joined in the camp. when i reached there, they all told me that we were going to have changing parade that day. i was like.. wth.. but anws.. that night was e night. it was great as usual! and we didnt have any changing parade!! only change into our boots .. not full u.. yayy! slept at ard 12am. was sleeping very soundly when... 'quick wake up!! going to be late alr!!' i was like huh??! faster woke up.. changed into shoes, saw the time and it read 3 am .. din have time to ask what was happening so just quickly tied hair, put on nametag and stuff and rushed down to report at the concourse. stood there for about 10 min waiting and waiting. nobody came down. 'dont tell me is they wna clear push ups den they report so early' i thought to myself. den i had a sudden urge to go to e toilet. so quickly went. jaselyn, ke hui and melissa (not zee) went too. jaselyn and melissa went to accompany us lols. so when we were done, we went back to the concourse only to find out that they weren't there! we dodnt know what to do. we thought they might be back in the bunks so when we climbed a few steps, jaselyn had this great idea that maybe they were in the parade square.. and so they were.. quickly fell in and we were late. supposed to report at 2.30 am!! but we reported at 3.14 am. lol. ~_~ so for that we owe them some more push ups. suppose to do 20. but some of us din have that correct pumping position so keep restarting. 'u all are forcing me to let u pump until 19 and i will stop u and restart all over again' by then some were crying alr cos until 7, restart, until ard 10, restart. and we managed to do until 19 and she asked us to stop again. heard more people crying. she asked us if we understood why she was doing this.. we answered 'yes mam' 'do u understand?' 'yes mam' 'do u understand?' 'yes mam' 'do u understand?' 'yes mam' 'do u understand?' 'yes mam' 'do u understand?' she asked like more than 20 or 30 times. dunno for what. den she finally asked us to get up. told us to drink water and we yam seng-ed. 'u know why i asked u all to yam seng with me?' we shook our heads. 'COS U ALL ACCOMPLISHED ALL THE TORTURE/PUMPINGS IN THIS CAMP!' of course she didnt shout. we were all so so so happy!! that means no more changing paprades the next day!! yayy!! after which we went to sleep. next day woke up had breakfast and had anoter singspiration! yayness. i love camp's singspirations. after that we had photo taking with the bb guys. 'is not i thick skin ask them to take picture with us one okay. is they ask me to take picture with them one hor!' the camp commandant told us. ahahha. while we were waiting, we did cheers!! got one hokkien cheer damn funny but cant rmb. den we did the 3 in 1 cheer and we were obviously louder than the bb guys who copied us to cheer. shiokz. took photo, fell out and had a camp debrief.
yay finally done with this post!! if you managed to read this post througout, congrats!!
Signed off @3:18 PM.