Secondary 3 Adventre Camp

Secondary 3 Adventure Camp
Secondary 3 adventure camp was the best camp I had ever attended. The camp had around 9 activities for us to go through. Each activity had at least one challenge to be down more like obstacles we had to overcome. The whole group had to overcome the obstacles without mistakes, if not everyone had to restart. Some obstacles made us swing from tree to tree and move from point A to point B with our legs tied to each other. This thought us discipline and teamwork.

The next two activities I am about to tell you about was the most fun filled ones. The first one would be the nature rumble. We had to walk through a muddy jungle, the deeper we walked the higher the mud. During the walk we were asked to waddle through a chest deep stream which was filled with snails and logs that we had to climb over. There were even times when we got stuck in a mushy pit of quick sand. But we also had our fun when we started to throw mud at our friends.

The next activity was rafting. First we had to build a raft together. Later on we had to raft in it. The only way to make our raft move was to manually paddle with our feet.

During the camp we had noticed one very important thing. It was the fact that nobody could overcome the challenges by themselves. When we got stuck in the mud our friends were the ones that pulled us out. While rafting we had to paddle together to move. We had to synchronize in all the things we did. This made us bond with each other more and have a sense of belonging to our class. We felt that our friends were not friends, but brothers.
Done by:
Daniel Vijay (9)
Nathanael Lucas(27)
Muhd Syazwi (26)

Secondary 3 Boot/Fun Camp

“From toddlers to boys, from boys to teenagers, from teenagers to men, that’s life’s story but it mainly depends on how we ourselves plan it to be,” Sathya Mathiyalagan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The shimmering lights from the sun seeped through the dark grey clouds of the blue sky. It was a long night for me packing my camping bag and we had to buy those stuff we need in the camp that I did not have. Still even though I was so sleepy I could not sleep, it was like I was in a sleeping disorder. This explained my sleepiness in the morning. When I reached school I was already late so I had to run with my FAT, HEAVY camping bag. It was an experience that I did not want to have again. The same old morning assembly was in action! After the morning assembly we were assigned to our trainers for the camp. Our trainers were Hillme a Malay Guy and Omar an American Malay, both of them were cool guys.   Our first look at Omar and we shrills ran up my spine he looked like a strict trainer who had never smiled in his life. Our bus…..really a first class bus, like the one we needed. It was a long trip to Camp Christine, close to the border of Singapore-Malaysia. Our ride there was truly scary. Lim Chu Kang was the first street I have seen with so many cemeteries. Camp Christine was not so bad infact it was nicer than what we expected. We were assembled in our classes. We were forced by the chief of the camp to sit under the sun for about 45 minutes while they were under the shade planning for the day. First activity is that we had to pitch our own tents. After pitching it we had to arrange it in rows. Next we had our lunch; we had rice, fish sticks, hotdogs and vegetables.                                                                                                                                                Our second activity was to catch grass hoppers, crickets and frogs alive; we also had to get dead fragments of a banana leaves, bird nest ferns, staghorn ferns etc….In this activity the frog catching was the most fun! But the biggest joke is that Justin caught a chameleon and accidentally let it escape in the Olave hall and all the students, teachers, trainers went screaming and running about. To tell the truth that was the slackest day. There was no brain cracking games or physical testing games in fact we cheated in most of the games especially the magic carpet. When Omar was looking away, we got off the carpet, flipped it and got on it again and he did not even know it. All the games were very fun, but I was expecting the next day for the nature rumble.                                                                                                                                             After the games, we had our dinner. The third activity was the night walk. It was as fun as all the games just that this one was scarier because Lincoln Peh started to shout as though he was possessed! Then i just had the feeling that it was bad, but the problem was that Lincoln Peh missed a step and his legs went straight into the drain! Then came the night. We had to rest as much as we could as the next day will be the most tiring. The next day morning we had to drag ourselves to our lodge. We had our breakfast: we had rice with fish cake and veggies. Then we went to our nature rumble. We had to walk in a trail of thick mud but it became worst for us because the rain had made the mud more wet and thick. And we also took a walk in a chest-deep river. Then we had to make it through the forest but we were lost in the forest after following a group of girls from another school. We were very angry at them for losing their way making us lose ours but eventually we found our way and we ran away from the girls. Our next activity was to build a raft and race with another group of friends. Our raft was a good and strong one but Joshua could not balance in it so we all toppled over and that was the last activity of the day. We also had the campfire but we forgot to make the cheer for it so 5 minutes before the camp fire we made our cheer and it went well in the fun and peaceful campfire. The next day we were in formed that we won the best cheer award in coming with the award was two bottles of coke. We were so sad of leaving the camp that we cheered for Omar all the way till we reached the bus because he made our camp as fun as ever.      

Every Boy a Sportsman

When you think of the word 'sportsman', what comes to mind? For many, a professional athlete or someone who behaves sportingly. For others, an athlete who is fair and generous in behaviour. But at the secondary 3 camp, we learnt a new meaning to the word - teamwork, and brotherhood.

In a game of football, each team has eleven players on the 120 yard field. And it is each player's job to deliver the ball to the opposing end of the field. If one player decides not to play, the whole team would probably lose. Each player has a role to play, no matter how small the role. Likewise, at the secondary 3 camp, if say someone decided not to participate in the Gladiator activity, his team would be at a lose. Each member of the team had a role to play, and everyone had to work as a team in order to succeed.

Brotherhood. At the camp, every single one of us had to spend two nights in the same tent, and three days of gruelling activities together. We had to endure the annoying sleeping habits of our tent-mates, and on the other hand, lend them a hand during the activities. If there's one thing we learnt at the camp, it would be brotherhood.

I think the camp was a total success. At the end of the camp, we learnt many skills like catching frogs and coping with the annoying sleeping habits of our friends. but also the feeling of kinship and closeness to each other. The camp truly bonded and gelled us together as one class, and cohort. And also gave us the true insight of what it means to be a saint.

-Neville Lee (19)

What i did during the sec 3 camp that i did not attend

My post may not be as exciting or interesting as the others but at least it’s truthful.

Well since I did not go for my sec 3 camp I am going to post on what I did during the sec 3 camp in which I went for my grandfather’s funeral and what I did there.

Well on the first day of camp I was at my grandfather’s funeral, which was at the void deck of my auntie’s house. I was just sitting there eating peanuts and sweets for the whole day while occasionally walking over to the casket to look at the body, which in actual fact looks nothing, like my grandfather at all. After a few hours of waiting lunch was served. I finished my lunch and play monster hunter 3^rd (it’s a psp game) with my cousin, soon enough dinner was cooked and served by some weird guy with a mullet.

On the next day, I was back there again. Fortunately everybody was more cheerful than the day before and not as depressed. I continued the same routine of eating peanuts, sweets and drinking drinks, including lunch and dinner. I also played the same game with my cousin. During the service I could swear I was so pissed off with the so called relatives that were partying, I mean come on partying that I could just strutted over there and whoop their faces upside down, same with the day before.

On the third and final day there was the same routine with an added extra gang of taxi drivers at the wake. I wanted so much to give them the finger and stuff it up their noses so hard that it bleeds rainbows which makes no sense but I still wanted to do so but as you know a gentleman has to control his emotions. After the short service we had to follow this van to a bus which we boarded which then drove us to some garden crematory place (I can’t really remember the name). Everybody was crying when the coffin was being placed into the crematory. There was too much sadness all around me that I couldn’t take it and wept (girls cry, boys weep). After all that drama we went home and ate dinner. That was all I did during the sec 3 camp.

Well since my grandfather died I received very little ang bao’s, which really sucked.

Kevin Low (25)

3ST

Every boy a sportsman

                                                

The secondary 3 camp was a total success. Other than weather problems, there were not much serious problems that would have a bad impact on us. In this camp, there were many school values that we learned through the activities planned for us. The most important value of them all is ‘every boy a sportsman’.

To be a sportsman, there are several criterias to be met. Among all of them, teamwork is one of the most important criteria. In the camp, all of the activities are related to team building. For example the gladiator. We were to build a catapult with 6 spars and some rope. All of us have our specialties, if we know each other well enough, we can divide the work based on it. That way, we could accomplish our job in the best way we can.

In conclusion, we learnt a lot of important values from the activities. The most important one of them all is teamwork.

                                                catapult.

spars

Done By: Wong See Keat

SEC 3 CAMP: EVERY BOY A SPORTSMAN

 How would you feel if your home comfort was taken away, your daily urban lifestyle transformed? Well, that’s what happened during the Sec 3 Camp. In this essay, I will describe how the camp fulfils the above strategic trust, explain the camp events and evaluate the outcome.

The sec 3 camp was located near the border of Singapore, at the edge of the coast. Obviously we had to walk outstanding distances every day, waking up at 7 and going to sleep at 12. Our range of activities, from nature searching to rafting, definitely tested our physical and mental strengths in the heat. But all of these not only helped to bond the class together, but to experience the wild side of Singapore. we were always either building, running, walking, climbing, rowing or talking in all of the events for long periods of time. Often this tested our stamina and at the end of the day we were exhausted. It seems like we had 12 hours of PE a day. It clearly fulfilled the above strategic trust.

The events in the camp undeniably needed physical and mental alertness, especially in the nature rumble, which I think was the most unique and challenging event. We had to endure knee deep mud and sewage, waist deep water in a swollen creek and slippery terrain. It was also raining cats and dogs. It was hard for some (who were screaming like girls) when we needed to go into the murky depths of the creek. The others involved building and solving challenges like lifting a bucket without spilling its contents, building a raft, building a catapult( which failed), building a bridge and some icebreaker activities. We also had to do a night walk, blindfolded.

The camp was a neck-breaking experience, one that will be remembered (for some, in a negative way) and a good way to burn some calories. We all were sportsmen, enduring some harsh physical tests in the blazing sun. I guess the camp is just a taste of our national service, bound to be even harder. Overall, I say that the camp was enjoyable in some ways, but the fact that we slept in crowded and hot tents meant that many have not slept despite the backbreaking activities. But it was a good experience.

liew li heng(23)
3ST
389 words

Men of Wisdom and Stature

During the camp, I tried to take the risk of actually going first during the activities although should I fail, the whole group would probably be angry at me. Despite my knowledge of having sensitive skin, I still participated in the activities as active as I could, with the nature rumble and rafting an exception as my rash condition was pretty critical and those activities would most likely worsen it. Even though I knew I was not at all physically fit due to lack of stamina I had decided to try and have fun during a 'physical' camp and in the end I'd guess I did. Although we all had our own share of shouting and screaming at each other, we still managed to put our work together and created a masterpiece. I don't know if I have grown closer to my classmates at all but I know that I can be on the front lines and help where neccessary. Should there be a leader I shall be a follower. After all a general is nothing without his army, likewise a class can't do without its members participating in whatever trouble may come our way.

Timothy Tang (34)
3ST
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