Number nine.

Lifeskills Enrichment Project

Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 5:02 PM

3rd Day: It looks like the camp is coming to the end of the day. I woke up the same timing as the second day. That is 5.30am. The reason i woke up early because i was feeling cold during that time. So I had morning bath. The feeling was awesome. Feel wide awake. So after that, at 8am, we had our breakfast. Bee hoon for breakfast. We had a quick breakfast as we need to rush down to SHINES for our High Elements. So we leave our campsite at 9am with our bag. We rushed at our SHINES approximately 9.30am, if i'm not wrong. After we reach SHINES, we had some briefing for our high elements activity. I was scared though, because i'm afraid of height, but i manage to overcome it. So every group had 30 mins to try the obstacle. Such as high wall. We had a slow start though, as many of group members, could not do the obstacle.

There is 1 obstacle, it was very scary though. i could not look down. but with the help of my friend, i manage to reach the top. after everybody had done their obstacle, we then start with our high elements, it was scary though. as 9 or 10 people have to do the obstacle and 10 will need to do the ametuar obstacle and 5 our of 10, need to the expert obstacle. i did the ametaur and expert level, with my partner. My partner was sacred of height also, but i persuade her too do. I also advice her, not to look down. In the end, we did it. We had a time limit, that is 45 mins to finish it. But none of them finish the high elements. It was very hot though and i have become a little bit dark. After the time limit, was done, we have to pack up. After that, we had lunch. The food for the last day was so nice, until, i feel like having another pack. as i were hungry. After that, we had a small ceromony to give out certificate of participation. I was the last 4 to be given. I was wondering at first, why i didn't get my certificate. but soon after the lecturer told the rest of the cohord that the 4 of us, is selected for blaze camp 2. I was so happy. From there, we were dismiss. So it's the end of our camp.

Lunch, during the last day. Nice right?? hah

Our Prize!

What i learn during the camp is that, i learn how to lead a group when having such activities and having a disicpline mindset. I also learn how to work together as a team, although we could not communicate that well, we still persevere on. No matter what happen to each of us, we will take the blame together and standby each other when in needs. I would still like to go again for blaze camp 1.

LIfeskills Enrichment Project

@ 4:03 PM

2nd day: So on the second day of blaze camp, i woke up like 5.30am, because i was feeling cold and i couldn't go back to sleep. So it all start of with breakfast in the morning. Morning breakfast was nice as we had nasi lemak for breakfast. So after breakfast, we had a 2 hour lecture in the camp side. It was boring though but the lecturer was funny. i love him. So after the lecture, we had lunch. the food was delicious and i really like it. So after lunch, we head down to sembawang park for our rafting. It wasn't successful as the weather was dark. but we still did our rafting. During this activity, i learned how to tie a knot for rafting. It was hard though at the beginning, but with the group that i had, we did it. All of a sudden, it started to raining cats and dogs. Thunders every second. and we have to run to the nearest shelter. It was very cold. We have to wait for 1 hour before the rain stops before returning the equipment to the HQ.

HQ, where we have our rafting.. At sembawang park.

After the rain stops, We head down to the toilet to wash up before going to SHINES for our Campfire. After we wash up, we head down to SHINES for our campfire. As we were traveling to shines at kallang, our group, practice on our cheer and performance. it was terrible though but we persevere. When we reach our destination, we had to quickly set up the place. to make it like a campfire site. Every group have their own task to do. Our group was the easiest task that we have to do. It is to arrange the chairs for the teachers and facilitators. So after that, we had our dinner. After dinner, the campfire starts. It was not that good but we had fun during the campfire. with teachers and facilitors joining in to play some games with us. It was very funny. Then we had performance and cheers from the other group. Overall. All the groups did their best. At the end of the campfire, we did the campfire dance. It was a funny dance. The campfire finish at 10.30pm. We have to pack all the things, before going back. By keeping the place clean. After we clean the place, we head down tol our campsite back. Debrief and light out. Overall, i had fun during the 2nd day.

Peformance

The camp fire

Lifeskills Enrichment Project

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 8:55 PM

For my 6 hours of journal relection, for the first 2 hours, i will be talking about Blaze Camp 1. which i went during the march holiday. On 24 to 26 March. It was a exciting camp..
So basically, i will try my best to type every detail of it about the camp.

1st Day: So on the 1st day, i'm suppose to meet 1 of the leaders at kovan MRT station at 8.15am.. but i was late and came only at 8.30am. I realised that, i wasn't the want who is late. haha. So we waited for 1 more guy by the name of haikel. his kind.. haha. so afeter thatw we went to the girl's brigade HQ at kovan. So it all started with a introduction by synergydynamics. The insturctor that intorduce hiself is ROD. he is a nice guy. So follow by the other instructor. Then we were group. I was in group 1. the 1st person that i talk to in my group is Burhan. So slowly i talk with the rest of my groupmates. So after that, we were given a small pieces of paper and pen to write 5 simple things abt us. and after that they give us a tape to tape it on our back.. and go around. haha.. it was a fun intro. So after that we played some ice breaker games.. we played 4 ways mines and we have to be blind folded. it was seriously fun. That is one of the game i remembered.

So the above picture is a game called 4 ways mine. Where we have to be blind-folded.

So after that we have to discuss with our group about our group cheer and group name.. so we chose our group name JASH PR aka JASH PERFECT. nice right?? hah.Oh yes i forget to say that our group instructor name is HARIZ. he so mean treat us like army. haha, but i don't care. he is a fun person. and very kind. So after that we have to rate ourselves and my group all chose 50%. Because if we chose 100%, we don't deserve that bcos we are not perfect. It's also the 1st half of the day so after that we were given keys to our rooms, and yeah, i love it. haha. we were given 15 mins to settle in and report to the canteen for our lunch. the food was awesome.

So this is our Lunch. Nice right?

After lunch we had our first activity. AMAZING RACE. we had to go around kovan. so using my creativity. i will explain using pictures:

This is our group instructor. Hariz.

So during the amazing race, we were given a picture and we have to find the palce. When we find the clue, we get our task. So the above picture is our 1st task. To solve the sudoku. It was easy though as in our group we got a samrt type of person. haha. we solve it fast.
The 2nd task was, we went to the kovan bowling bowl and we have to make a pyramid using all the group members plus 1 outsiders.

After doing the pyramids, we went ti the Surin Avenue park for our next task. the task is to make a 2 A4 paper float in the air for 1 min. It was tough though to make the paper float up in the air. but never less, we persevere on and complete our task. So the pciture above is my whole group members. So after that, we went to another park. to just relax there for the mean time. after that we walk towards singtel at serangoon for our water break. After we refill our water bottle, we had another task. the task is a game called cross the river. it was hard though because all of us knew this game but we could not remember the puzzle. But still we did it. after that we went to serangoon stadium.

So our 2nd last task was to do 200 sit-up, 200 push-up ans 200 jumping jack. So all of us divided into the task and everybody did 20 of everything. So after that we did our last task. our last task is kinda weird but it's all about the brain matter. So the last task was that we all took off our shoes and make a 9 square and the instructors will give us a question and we have to take out the shoes to make the answer. So when we finished our task, supposingly we have to go back to the the campsite. But due to the rain, we have to stay at the stadium first. So when the rain stop, we went back to the campsite. we were the last to reach. When we reach back, we have to make a structure that allow a ping pong ball to travel from 1 end to the other end, by using chopsticks, ice-cream sticks, tape and cup. After doing the structure, everybody have to get ready for dinner. So during the dinner, i was the leader of my group and i lead the leaders to the makan cheer.

So the pictures above is the dinner food. i ate quite fast though during dinner time. maybe it's because the food was nice. So after dinner, we played some ice-breaker games like UFO, spider web. It's all about teamwork for this games. So basically, we played UFO caused it's more challenging and it build up our group teamwork. The game is quite simple. everybody have to hold the tip of the string that is attached to the cd and we have to walk around by carrying it up but that's not the interesting part. The interesting part is that a cup of water will be on top of the CD. it was hard though as we could not communicate with each other by talking. So after playing the game for more then 30 mins, we decided to sit down and plan our group cheer, group performance and our banner.

In the end, this is what our banner looks like. After doing all the things, we were debrief and It was time to lights out..
So end of Blaze camp day 1.