On 24th of February 2011, Monday, the secondary three cohorts in my school attended their secondary three camp. This camp is held every year and it is compulsory for the secondary three pupils to attend it, unless there is a good reason for not attending it. Today, I am writing this essay to tell you my experience from the camp.
On the first day of the camp, we were carrying our heavy bags to school. After the morning assembly, we were assigned to our trainers, Hillme and Omar. We then took a bus to our destination. My first impression of that area was that it was a deserted place as there was a cemetery there and most of the areas there was just a plain land. Upon reaching there, we were asked to assemble on a field and under the sun for quite long. Our first instruction was to pitch up a tent, where the trainers would demonstrate and we would pitch our own. We took quite some time and after we finish building our tents, it was time to have lunch. Our lunch isn’t as bad as what I thought, as in my previous camps we had ration food as our meals. After our meals, we were split up into two groups. We were lucky to have Omar as our trainer, as he is a quite slack trainer. We then have some team bonding activities until it was dinner. We then had our night activity, which we had to put a blind fold over our eyes, hold each other’s shoulder and the person in front would lead the people. Of course the person in front would not be blind folded. Then soon it was time we had our shower and turn in to bed, and of course our beds are not the ones with the mattress, but in the tents.
The second day, in the middle of the night, I was awaked by the mumbling of the people outside. I only realized that it wasn’t time to wake up only when one of the trainers scolded the boys and asked what they were doing outside their tents three in the morning. When it was time to get out of our tents and assemble on the field, we were reluctant but we had no choice. We had our breakfast and soon after, we went to our next activity, nature rumble. We had to walk in a trail of thick mud and what made it worse was the rain. We then took a walk into a small river which was chest level. We then had to make it through the forest but we got lost in the forest a few times. Our next and last activity was rafting. We had to build a raft that was strong enough to support us when we are at sea. At night was the camp fire, where we showed off our cheers and had fun. On that night I managed to get enough sleep.
The next day, which was also our last day, we were informed that we had the best cheer award and we also were awarded with two bottles of coke. We were also sad to leave the camp but grateful for our trainers who guide us through the camp. We then left the camp by bus and headed for home.
Class: 3ST
Hi Jun Hui
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