SparkC camp (part 2)

Hey!! Here's the rest of the SparkC camp days...

Day 2...
Woke up rather early..cos the girls in my tent (Valerie, Michelle (cheong) and Debbie) are rather kiasu..wanted to make sure they had places to shower and all that...They had a bit of trouble waking me up, but that was because I didn't want to wake up at first. Hehheh :D. Michelle Cheong woke up herself, and she told me that she could hear Debs and Val's discussion about waking she and I up. Well...to tell you the truth people..I was already up..and I could also hear your discussion CLEARLY. Hahaha..sorry for making you go through the trouble of waking me up. :P We went to brush our teeth and all, but we didn't shower. The water was too cold. We arrived at the "Galaxy" right on the dot. THen we had to proceed to the "Milky Way" for a flag raising...and their flag raising is literally flag raising. Alan and Shenghao and Jordy did the flag raising..and the one who was raising the Singapore flag actually dropped
the flag by a bit!! An OFFENCE!! HAH boys..shows how GOOOOD you are. But whatever..it was still OK...MUCH better than the exercises we did next. I was so hungry and just wanted to eat my breakfast, but they made us go through sooo many exercises first!! But to be fair, we weren't really that co-operative. So after some time, we had our breakfast. Then we were supposed to go for the CRC (challenge ropes course). From the bottom, it didn't really look very high, but Wilfred told us it was about 7 metres off the ground. And when I got up there, I knew it was going to be a completely different story. I was sooooo extremely absolutely scared!! I am afraid of heights anyway. I managed to complete the first part without much fuss, but when I got to the walking on the boulder that part, I faltered. I didn't dare to even step onto the boulder. There wasn't even a support to cling onto leh!! (although some others did find a support..they clung onto the ladders, the ropes that were behind them..hmph!) But in the end, those idiotic boys kept on whining at me to hurry up, so I took a DEEP breath in and started walking. My legs were really trembling, and I was afraid to fall (although I knew if I fell I would still be safe). But I still managed. The tarzan swing was fun, but I was quite afraid to step onto the rope at first..cos what if I did fall? I would just be dangling in the air at a height...!!! But I managed to overcome my fear of heights and arrived safe and sound on the ground (at last). After everyone had completed the CRC, we went to practice our campfire item. Nobody could come up with a good idea, so we went for lunch- where Wilfred showed us this dance, which we all agreed to do for the campfire. But we still had to come up with a cheer. After some discussion...our cheer ended up like...
Ryan- gimme a C!
Rest- C!
Ryan- gimme a R!
Rest- R!
Ryan- gimme a U!
Rest- U!
Ryan- gimme an X!
Rest- X!
All-C,R,U,X! CRUX!
Then, after our cheer came a song- which we sang to the tune of the chorus of our school song
We are Crux, We are Crux, We are Crux, We are Crux, We are Creative, Responsible, United and Extreme!
after all this would be our dance...
And so, after lunch, we went tunnelling. Miss Hayati and Mr Yeo also went, but they were the last 2 to go in. The tunnel was pitch black, and the only light was from the light sticks that the front and back person held. I was the front person, and behind me was Michelle, followed by Melissa, then Valerie, and lastly, Debbie. I had to crawl in through a hole to get in to the tunnel. I wasn't sure how to climb in, and i ended up going inside with an awkward position. We had to crawl along the tunnel. It was really hot, dark and stuffy. After much crawling and yelps and mutters of "hot!", we came out to a more open place which was full of balls. We got through that and came to poles. We got lost in all the poles, and that's where we took the msot time. We had found our clues, but we didn't know how to get out. Finally, we came out of those dreaded poles, and I was like a fountain, sweating from head to toe. We crawled up and down and into and out of some kind of net stuff and finally, after we picked up all the clues, we came to the exit. But, bad news, the other group behind us had caught up, we could hear their voices! We frantically punched the code into the door and we were greeted by the boys, who had parked themselves by the door, waiting for us to come out. They scared us, and I knew I screamed the loudest. So? After my group came out, they slammed the door into the other group's face, and let them punch the code in. The other group knew the code, so they came out, closely followed by Miss Hayati and Mr Yeo. The 2 of them had tried to come out with the other group, but the boys were too fast. BAM! they slammed the door in their faces again. But Miss Hayati and Mr Yeo managed to come out. How sad...:P. After the tunelling, we went rafting. My group (Crux) was to compete against Cygnus. Cygnus also consisted of a lot of 6A people, including that shameless fish, Jianghan. Our group went away to discuss who was to row the first part, the second and the third part. We took quite a while, and Cygnus kept on asking us to hurry up. But in the end, we won, and my throat was sore because of the cheering. hehhehheh. Cygnus was still in the sea when we had reached the shore the third time..and u noe something? Jianghan fell into the water!! Hehe..maybe he misses his home too much. But..congrats to Crux..real happy and cheers to Cygnus as well. I think we all did our best. We had fun in the sea for a while, then went to shower. All of us had to get ready for the campfire. We practiced our item one last time..it wasn't so successful, cos we kept on adding more things to make it "fancy" but it ended up making everyone confused, and when we did the real thing, our dance was really messy. But it was great fun watching the others. We saw Mrs Lim's daughter as well, she was really cute. After the campfire, we went for our supper, which was milo and biscuits again. We slept in the tree hut that night. I was in PLuto..so sad..I was really FAR AWAY from all the rest..sobx..there wasn't a person whom I knew in Pluto..i mean..I know their names, but I'm not close to them. Luckily Val saved my life. She was in the same hut as me..we went through the tough time together..hehheh.:D It was real cold that night..I was shivering when Val woke me up to go to the toilet....brrrrrrr..!
Day 3...
Woke up shivering. It was just so cold!! Man, one day so hot and then one day so cold. Val and I went to wash-up and brush our teeth once we had woken up. We met up with Mich, Debs and Melissa and also saw some of the other 6A girls from Cygnus. Around 7.30, we went for flag raising and did more exercises before having breakfast. Today, the last activity that we had to do was to build a sandcastle. The group which built the nicest sandcastle would win. They provided materials for us...and away we went! My group took a real long time to think about what we wanted to build. We thought we had already taken a lot of time discussing, and we were going to waste our 1 hour and 10 mins away, so we all started heaving and piling sand into one big pile. Never would we guess that that huge pile of sand would give us an inspiration. While other groups were just building sandcastles from all the materials provided, my group decided on something so different I wondered where ideas came from. We decided to build turtles and on the biggest turtle, We put our sandcastle on its shell. We engraved the word CRUX and TURTLE KINGDOM in the sand and decorated it with stones and other colourful stuff. In the end, CRUX won the sandcastle building competition. We also won the campfire performance competition. :D:D Boy were we happy. Soon, it was time for us to leave, and we all walked out with fond memories of the time we spent at OBS SparkC.