life of a secondary school student

Scout Camp '09

Don't be fooled by the title, I'm no Scout. During the 2nd term school holidays, Brandon and I were invited to take photos of our school's first ever scout camp. Again, this'll just be a brief overview of the whole camp. :)

A 2 day 1 night overnight session in school, sound boring to you? Well, I've got nothing much to do at home so...

At first I thought : 'where will they be camping in school?' The football field, obviously. Oh.

Everyone was supposed to gather at the school foyer by 7.30. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't sleeping enough for the past week, so I had a bit of trouble getting up. Reached school in time though. Time check, 7.05am.

'Some of you look like you're packed up for a week of camping lah!' - Mr Wee. Nah, some people packed mats so their bags look a bit bulkier. Trust me, you don't wanna be sleeping on the uneven ground, 'later back pain ahh!'

Jokes, great way to start a morning.

By 7.30, we were instructed to move to the football field so we could erect the tents.

Look alive everyone, we've got a long day ahead.

The boys camped on one end of the field while the girls camped on the opposite end. Everyone was divided into groups of 4, a group will share one tent.

Let the preparations begin!


The girls got to start first. Yeah, look at the boys on the other side, waiting.

Anyway, the boys got start soon enough. The Scout Master, Mr Henry Sinclair and Mr Wee started handing out the tents after making sure that it really was 4 people to a group.

Can you believe that bag actually holds the tent? Can you believe it?

Luckily it rained the day before, much more cooling. Not to mention the lighting.. just right.


So far, so good..

It says 'Canadian'.

Mr Wee helping Chung and the rest, their poles were not upright enough.

Uniform.

Some final touch-ups. Umm, breakfast was served after that, canteen provided the food. What, did you expect us cooking things with a campfire on the first attempt?

One shot before heading off to the canteen.


Found Aaron trying to escape from knots that Joshua(behind him) tied around his hands.

At least everybody queues up here, really different from the situation when it's a normal school day.

The younger ones will be getting their food fairly too, no line cuttin'!

These were the 2 assistant Scouts that gave up their birthday celebrations to be with us that day! Their birthdays were on the 2nd day of the camp. We sang a multi-lingual birthday song for them.

Brandon and his breakfast. At least the Teh-C isn't bad.

After breakfast, everyone(except Brandon and I) was to change into their Scout uniforms and listen to a talk about dehydration by Mr Henry. After that was the tent inspection!

Mr Henry inspected each tent himself. There were a few 'that's not right'-s and 'it shouldn't be like this'-s, but it was ok overall.

Had fun with some sneak shots with Chung(left), Shawn(right) and the rest.

Sun was starting to get brighter and the temperature was rising as well. The rain helped only in the early morning, I guess. Adrian took advantage of the tent shades. Dang, why didn't I think of flash just now?!

Joshua putting a peg right after Mr Henry pointed it out.

Loved this moment. After that they were laughing even harder at something Brandon said.

After that, brunch (what?!) was served. There was bout 5 meals that day, excluding supper.. 4 meals the next day.

Mmm, blackcurrant..


After that, a gathering at the Hall for an inspection by the Director, Mr Lee and the Principal, Mr Ling themselves.

Attention! (or 'hut'?)


Was kinda embarassed when I was asked to take this shot, but it turned out OK I guess..

Actual photo(top), test shot(btm). Was asked to take a group photo for the International students, had no experience with the lighting. Brandon helped with the wireless lighting but ended up using direct flash instead, safer. A bit dark though, dang..

After that, TUG-OF-WAR! Hadn't played this in a long, long time.. Had a combination of 'boys v.s. girls', 'Form 3 boys v.s. Form 3 boys', etc. matches. Really fun.

Even Mr Wee joined in! This one was a one-sided round, hahahah.. I tried taking part too, lost, had lots of fun though!

Last round was between the boys(Josh, Shawn, Aaron, Winston, Adrian), who won 4 continuous matches and 10 young girls! Seriously, the girls put up a real fight, and almost won! But the boys won, and were exhausted too, could see Joshua really exerting..

After that, well.. I don't really have the photos to show 'after that'. I didn't think that I would be taking so many photos, so I left my charger at home.. Stupid! stupid! stupid! I couldn't take photos of that night's barbeque(yes bbq!) or the next day's activities.

Yes, 'ha-ha-HA!' Because of that, I used Brandon's camera for the rest of the activities. He agreed but, I hope I didn't irritate him by using his a200 most of the time..

Did I mention we had lunch too? But anyway, there you have it, a summary of our school's first Scout camp. Great and fun experience for me, staying up till 3, taking photos, laughing, chatting and joking with friends and all the rest of things you'll get only from a camp..

Exams start on Monday. So why're you up blogging? I've already done my revision, plus I haven't updated in weeks. PMR in bout 2 months, argh.. so nervous bout it! *bite bite bite fingernails*

Anyway, have a good night. Hope you enjoyed the post.

posted by jordan @ 9:20 PM