yay i'm back. xD
suprisingly, this is one of the camps where i don't really feel like sleeping immediately after i'm back.
hahaha.
normally, i would.
i think its because this is like the first camp i have been to that gives us like, so much free time.
that was kinda cool.
when i reached school on weds and saw all the people with their big bags, i was like omg.
some even brought pillows la!
hahahahaha.
and yih rue and shireen were like kept saying my bag is so small.
xD
at first i packed 4 shirts, but in the end, just before i left my house, i got worried and stuffed another one in.
lol.
i'm so proud of my skills in packing.

the bus ride took so long.
we stopped at Cowes for lunch.
i had brought lunch from home!
but i so stupidly forgot to bring it onto the bus with me.
i had left it in my bag, which was in the storage area at the base of the bus.
yes.
i'm stupid.

reached campsite, put our stuff in our room.
5 in a room.
there were two bunk beds and a double bed.
first time i go for a camp that provided beds.
lol.
i was with yih rue, irene, rachel and shireen.
it wasn't exactly a surprise.
coz we kinda chose it to be like this.
har har.
it was raining, so we couldn't do our first activity, which was initiative.
hahahaha.
its this teamwork game where we're supposed to carry some dummy without touching the ground.
so we had loads of free time.

after that we went to the beach.
its was so nice!
the waves are really nice.
very... big waves.
and big beach too. :D
that night we went to the penguin parade!
so exciting.
but the sad thing was we couldn't take photos. ):
so we just went in and sat there waiting for them to come out.
hahaha.
felt kinda stupid though.
like there's this whole group of people sitting there facing the sea waiting to see the penguins swim ashore.
lol.
after an eternity of waiting, they finally came.
ahhhh so cute la.
the ones we saw were the smallest of the species.
then as we walked back up to the entrance, we got to see them really up close.
yay. xD

on thursday, our first activity was written as "ball games/pool" in the timetable.
so we all stupidly thought that we were supposed to play ball games in the pool.
in the pool filled with freezing water.
we were like freezing in the water for so long, then we realised that what the timetable meant was we can either play ball games or play in the pool.
yup.
i am stupid, again.
anyway, so our next activity was rafting!
i found that one of the best ones.
our activity group consisted of like, the five of us and 12 other guys.
yup so we were split into two and we were each to build a raft with some poles and ropes.
yih rue was with me.
and at first we did this really crap raft which was obviously not gonna work.
one of the guys were like telling us "get ready for a swim in the lake"
the way he said it was hilarious.
in the end we changed our mind and copied the other group's.
heh heh.
the thing was, they thought theirs would work, and we thought ours won't work and what actually happened was surprisingly, theirs fell apart the moment they sat on it, and ours stayed intact.
YAY.
it was funny how at first we had lots of trouble figuring out who sat where so as to balance our raft.
but in the end we made it and won the raft competition hands down.
heh heh heh.
my group is great, coz we have like a scout and a girl guide in it.
hahaha.
so their rope-tying skills helped us. xD

had lunch and our next activity was the flying fox.
it looked so cool la.
we took turns and i went with rachel.
climbing up the ladder to go to the starting point of the flying fox was scary.
and also when we had to kick off.
i was hesitating to kick off, but after that it was not bad.
but it wasn't as fast as i expected.

had canoeing later.
they all abandoned me. ):
hahaha.
we had to cannoe in pairs and rachel went with irene and yih rue went with shireen.
and there was no other girls left in the group. ):
so the teacher went to get one guy, Tim, and asked me to go with him.
hahaha.
he was actually quite nice la.
i was kinda lucky that he was rather good at canoeing, since like, i have never ever canoed before.
lol.
so we went around trying to capsize other people but we only managed to knock into their cannoes.
and his friends started throwing mud at him and he decided to retaliate and ran off.
i was abandoned, again.
sigh.
i had to walk around in the super muddy lake picking up all the stuff that they left behind.
in the end i had to throw my shoes away.
lol.
oh we finally had rice for dinner.
hahaha.
i missed eating rice. (:

there wasn't evough time for everyone to do all the activities so nobody got to do everything.
for my group, we weren't scheduled for the giant swing and the high rope course.
i'm kinda glad too.
coz the giant swing is something like some free fall thing, and the high ropes course was something like the rope course in the sparkc camp we went for in sec one.
so today we only had one activity, which was the maze.
we went to this place where it had some really interesting stuff, abit like a science centre kinda thing.
it was so cool la.
actually i found them more interesting than the maze.
the maze was like crap.
we didn't really stay in the maze for very long.
but overall it was not bad.
after that had our last meal then packed everything and prepared to leave.
my bus was like the second bus to leave, out of about 5 buses.
the very sad thing that happened was, while we were already about 15-20 mins away from the campsite, we were told that there was enough space for the remaining people in their buses and we had to turn back to pick them up.
and the sadder thing was that we went all the way back and when we reached, we were told that the problem was already solved and we actually did not need to go back.
that was so @#$%#$ la.
from being the second bus, we became the last bus. ):

i found that i brought many things to the camp which i didn't even use.
mainly it was the sleeping bag, which i didn't even remove from the bag.
and i had two shirts which i didn't use at all either.
shouldn't have brought them.
wasted my energy. xD

okay i'm off to rest.
i so dread next week.
it'll be the start of many tests to come.
urgh. ):