Wednesday, June 04, 2008
12:40 AM
Guides camp 2008
First of all, I admire this group of juniors, for surviving our quite tedious camp. And a big thank you for all the facilitators, for coming back, despite just coming back from ABCDE camp(Feather),OBS(Vivien Lai and Addie), school(Edith, Weiling, Weiyi, Jie,Belle,Peckhui,Caier) and other things. Even though not all of you stayed the night, but your help during the day was nonetheless appreciated :D
I did not try to lessen the pain of the juniors during the camp was because I believe that “once your seniors stops scolding you, it means that you have no more hope already.” So scolding is a GOOD THING, not a bad thing.And they can hate the seniors all they want, in the end, it is them who going benefit from it, not us. I am not going to play the sympathy game, too drama for me. And I guess it was hard on the juniors cos for most of them, it was their 1st intensive camp, no Sirumbun or OBS yet, of course tough la. Played a very small part in the scolding/punishing, credit of that goes of my dear J1 juniors and the drill commanders, you guys did a really great job in that, thank you! I wouldn’t know how it will be like without you all.
I believe everyone at 1 point or another complained about the seniors(I know I did), I remember complaining that my drill was too intensive(can’t tahan anymore), yinghui saving us from doing 1000 more pumping and many other things(can’t remember now, it was 4 years ago).
To me, getting “killed” in drill is all part of paying your dues to get to the top(any CL could tell you that they got killed in drill a hundred times over before they became a CL), everyone went through it once upon a time. And a quote I heard a lot during my DREAMS 5 days, “What doesn’t kill you, only makes you stronger.”
You just have to learn how to appreciate the punishments (any of my fellow dreamers can tell you that).
I spent a significant part of the afternoons and nights carrying food from nurul’s house to school then back. The walking part was pretty nice, almost solitude, the really hard part was getting people to come with me. I love the fried rice and curry man! 2nd day food I think.
Nightgame with Jie,Weiling and Weiyi was damn fun la! We ran to each other’s station a lot, since it was only like 100m apart.
Kinda surprised I didn’t break till I went home, the temptation to sleep all the way through the last day was really strong, like really really bad but might as well sleep on a comfortable bed at home. Random thing, Andreas,Bryan and I wore the same shirt on the 2nd day! We didn’t plan it and we still wore it, says something about our chemistry right?LOL.
Lastly, I learnt how to improve my leadership skills from our dear CC,ACC and the various DCs(really!) ;D