Secondary 3 Adventure camp: Developing into men of wisdom and stature

Developing man of wisdom and stature who will stand in favour with God and with man is our school’s mission. The camp was one of the challenges to achieve our school’s mission and also to bond our secondary three classes together as a school. Even though the camp was compulsory many did not turn up for wrong reasons. The camp was a three day two night camp.

Early in the morning we were to report to school in our P.E attire, there were many different shapes and sizes of back packs some looking like they are going for an overseas trip while others are as if they are just staying for one night. Some of us did not like the idea of going to the camp as we heard many scary and disgusting things from our senior’s past experiences while others were exited to go to the camp.

On the first day after what seems like a coach ride to Malaysia we reached the camp site. Everyone was complaining about how cramp their legs were and others just woke up from their short sleep stretching their stiff arms and making moaning noises. We got off the bus with our big and heavy bags and marched to the camp’s main dome. We were assigned our trainers and class names. The head of the camp briefed us though the fire drill and the rules of the camp grounds.

 We started by pitching our tents and the trainer did a demonstration, but not every tent was perfect. The first activity we did was to search for a list of things in the camp site; they were different types of leaves, grasshopper, cricket and a frog. I had the most fun chasing and catching the frogs and I even caught two of them. Next we did the magic carpet half of the class had to stand on the mat and we had to find a way to turn it over without anyone stepping off the mat we took three tries to do it silently.

At night we slept in tents they suppose to be able to fit us perfectly but one of our tent mates took lots of space we had a hard time to sleep. He even snored very loudly not letting the rest of us sleep in peace. The next morning we woke up and told him everything that he had did that night. We got out of our tents, washed our faces and assembled in front of the main dome on the grass filled with unknown insect crawling around and some might just crawl their way into our shorts. We did a very funny and unique exercise to start of the day. The next activity was to carry our classmates through a hula hoop suspended about half a meter off the ground without touching the hula hoop. We were able to do it a few times before we move on for our next activity. Our next activity was to built a catapult that can stand on its own and fire water bombs instead of firing at the targets we were given we fired it at each other. Next we had to use ropes to pull a bucket of water out of the center area. After that we had to hold onto the ropes and let our classmates walk one round around it everyone was able to do it but our fingers were very pain after that. The following activity was the most “interesting” part of the camp and it was the mud trail we put on our unwanted shoes and walked through it our trainers guided us through it we were almost lost in the forest we had to keep reversing our line as the path way was very narrow. Our next activity was boat rafting, we had to build our own raft and pedal with our feet we raced each other to a certain point. It was very disappointing because we could only pedal a very short distance.

The night of the camp fire we had to sing our classes cheer even though we prepared only five minutes before the camp fire we won first and the prize was two large bottles of coke for the class to share. I could not imagine that the camp was this fun and we had to thank our trainers for everything. Before leaving for school my class was chanting our trainers name Omar we just could not stop. It was as if we had taken ecstasy and could not control ourselves, we were even chanting his name on the bus. This is one of the best camps in my life so far.

By: Jeremy Au (4)