I have not been blogging for quite some time and sorry about that...
Anyway, i just had my SOAC or Sec One Annual Camp a few days ago. It started on wednesday and ended on friday, which was yesterday. So now, i am gonna share my epic experience with you people...haha.
Day 1 (March 9)
As usual, i repoted to school at 7, except that i was carrying clothes and sleeping bag instead of books. So we were only going to the campsite at 10am. Meanwhile, we played some ice-breakers, which i found it redundant cos its been 3 months since school started and we all knew each other. Our facilitators are rather funny people... ronnie and gavyn. Ronnie is actually very muscular and he got biceps...i am not kidding, haha. And then we asked him why and how he got those biceps and then he said it was all because of girls... as usual. Everyone thought it was because of nanyang girls but it was wrong. He said it was because of some st nick girls. Then everyone thought his gf is at st nick. Gavyn is quite a normal guy, quite tall but no bicep... haha. He is like super good at joking so its fun to have him.
We left for Sarimbun Campsite at about 10.30 and the journey was super epic. The campsite is at lim chu kang and there are many cemetery in the area. So we were along this very empty road, and other than hwa chong buses, we can only see cemetery and an military air base.
We reached the campsite at around 11 and we went straight to the huts to unpack our stuff. The hut was super epic. There were no mattress in it, but that was nothing, cos i got sleeping bag. The place that we were sleeping on was super sandy and dusty, and i had to spend some time cleaning them. I shared the hut with 13 other people. But it was fun :)
The first activity we did was mission untangle. Can you guys still remember the game which all of us hold hands and just "tangle" yourself up? Yup, we did that. It was quite fun cos we were like: You go under him!... then "No, not you. Him!" We were having an identity crisis but we still managed to untangle ourselves.
Lunch was next. Each of us were given this "bento" but its not very big actually. Well, this is a camp and you can't expect much right? But the food quality was barely ok and the quantity was worse. But since this was the first day and our first meal, it was still ok if we were not that full cos we are not that hungry.
I am gonna fast foward the time until after dinner cos it rained in the afternoon and we did not do much...
The next thing we did right after dinner was nightwalk. That nightwalk is not your ordinary nightwalk. You will be blindfolded and hold on to the person in front of you, which is also blindfolded, and just walk. There were also some "obstacles" in the way and we had to bend down or squat at certain moments. Our seniors were very irritating... cos they will take something and whack your head for fun. Since you are blindfolded, you dunno who is it and you will be scolding the air. The nightwalk was very long and it lasted about 45 mins. In short, we were blind for 45 mins...
We did some more activities which i cannot remember now and we slept at 12. Even though there was no air con, it was still rather cooling as the weather was cool...:) And we were supposed to wake up at 6 the next morning...
Day 2 (March 10)
We woke up at 5 and all of us in the hut talked about random things... then we went to brush our teeth. And we did not bathe cos we din feel like it...haha.
Breakfast was rather ok... we had some bee hoon and milo. But even after eating, we still felt hungry but we can't do much about it. If I am not wrong, the next game we played was Dr Dizzy. We have to skip 5 times on both legs and 5 on 1 leg, followed by spinning on the hula for 15 seconds. What i mean by spinning is not putting it around your waist and spinning it. We have to put the hula on the ground, bend our heads and touch the hula and then turn for 15 seconds. After spinning, we have to catch a water bomb and the first class to catch 20 water bomb wins (we were playing it with 2 other classes). Some people were super epic... after spinning on the hula, they fell and then their shirts were full of mud and it was disgusting. Glad i was able to balance.
Lunch was next and... I dun wanna talk so much about food cos its basically all the same. 吃了等于没吃. We played inter class games next and there was this game called Art of War, which was rather similar to chess, except that we use people to play and there were only 3 murderers and all the other people cannot kill each other except the murderers. We playing this game in a 9x9 grid and there was also this rule that the facilitators can disqualify anyone who lags... As 3 classes from different consortiums played, we keep having alliances with either one of the consortiums to kill the other... and at the end we still have to kill each other.
The next game was Hairs and Hand. We have to fill up this bucket of water using our hands first, and when our facilitators instruct us to change, we fill the bucket up with our hair instead of our hands. It was rather disgusting but fun. Since we are guys, our hair are short and it was hard to absorb water, so the facilitators told us to use our shirts. That's better...
While we were having fun, it started raining...sad. So we had to go indoors and play some inter class games. The first game we played was boring but the second one was FUN. The second game is something is captains ball, except that instead of throwing the ball, we roll the ball. The speed of the game is rather fun and it is so much better than captains ball.
Bathing was next...haha. And we all have to bathe together... not because there were no cubicles but the cubicles were super smelly. Then many of us guys did not wanna lose our modesty so we bathed with our underwear on...HAHA
Campfire was next and it is the most memorable thing throughout the camp. It was drizzling then... but we were still super high. Each class have to perform something and some classes rock!!! They can dance like shinee and its super cool... girls will love them. And then some songs can make my seniors and sec 1's go super high. They are songs like Grenade, Dynamite, Hot n Cold, and most importantly...朋友
Yup...and when we sing this song, all of us will hold each other on the shoulder, and then sway feom left to right... so brotherly
That night, we slept at about 11... and my hut got 1 guy from china and another guy from taiwan. They keep arguing if taiwan belongs to china until we sleep then they keep quiet. Haha.
Day 3 (March 11)
We did not do much on day 3... except cleaning the entire campsite. We had to clean the dormitorys (some classes slept there) and we can slack. So while cleaning one of the dorms, we found many tissue papers and they were all wet. All of us wondered what they did at night...
We left the campsite at 12 noon... and everyone was like: FREEDOM!! And then when i got back to school, the first place i went to is the canteen. Having been straved for 3 days, i treated myself to a bowl of bak chor mee...haha. Then i went home next...
End of Story...
Signing off,
WeiRong
