another day, another story... one true love
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Monday, September 05, 2005
Alright i just came back.... I'm pretty shagged out and stuff... but i guess it's worth it... the camp was kinda fun... My group was surprisingly great!! Let's see my group members were.
1. Daniel
2.Max
3. John
4. Amanda
5. Julia
6. Veronica
7. Lavania
8. Lynette
Got to noe them better and they're a great bunch of people.. haha the 3 days of camp were full of events that i can't exactly remember all and put it down here but i'll try my best...
Day 1We met up at church at bout 7 a.m blurry eyed and tired.. i was in a pretty slack mood. Gave out name tags to the kids and wore my own.. It was only then that we knew our fellow group members.. I like didn't know half of them on the list la! Oh well so Gerard and I trooped up the first bus with half of the sec 2s and sat behind.. the bus ride was pretty long but i wiled alway my time talking to aunty vivian bout adolescents and BGR stuff haha... so thereafter, we arrived at the place. The immediate thing Gerard n I did was to scout the surrounding area... not the interior of the camp but the exterior haha we were scouting for good spots to go in the night.. heh. (to pop) well we found one straight away haha some void deck with seats and a table... Then we got our room keys and our room was kinda nice... It had a bunk bed and i took the top while gerard took the bottom bunk... then brad and ashley took the single beds and kenneth and melvin took the moth eaten matresses on the floor.. The food was great... for a church camp that is.. I even smuggled up some packet of chips which i found in the kitchen (it sorta became my favourite place) The sessions were draggy but I paid attention... had to set an example.. haha I even shared some stuff with my group when I could. My group's name was St. Elizabeth and the kids kinda shocked me, especially John cuz he said stuff which were quite profound at his level.. But in general, i never expected the group to be so at ease with each other and like participate in the sharings... it made me feel happy though. So like aft all the sharings and everything we got debriefed and then Gerard, Shaun, Ashley, Kenneth and I sneaked out to eat at some coffee shop nearby.. the chicken cutlet shaun ordered was like so big!!! sheesh... so like when we came back, we went to take a bath it was bout 2-3 am already so i didn't think ppl would like be up.. but the fire alarm went off and it jus had to go off when i was like along the corridor in my boxer lookin shorts... but nobody said anything so i went into my room and although ppl were making a fuss and running everywhere, I was too tired to bother, i jus went to slp.. didn't care if there was a fire or not.
Day 2
So like we woke up late for mass... haha wads new? Aunt Vi even came in to call us but like we acknowledged her presence for a liddle while before plonking back onto our pillows... Then a few minutes later shawn yeo came and tried to wake us up but I didn't even budge until i felt i was less tired. Washed up and painfully made my way into the session room where mass was being held.. Gerard was so tired that he fell asleep STANDING UP?!! lucky i was there to support him or he'd have fallen on the floor and the mass would have been a veri hilarious one.. Then came the games.. Gosh my group was super lousy at the games but we tied for first place with the grape game.. then went up to bathe and change and sleep... slept through the confessions... and i wasn't the only guilty one.. Gerard was sleeping too.. They had praying over after dinner and I prayed over the kids in our group.. this was like the first time in my life praying over ppl la.. i was kinda nervous at first but it worked out well in the end.. haha it felt good to be able to speak to god to help the person we were praying over with... Well then we went to eat the chicken cutlet again and came back pretty full.. Noel apparently had a fever cuz he drank beer for the first time in his life... bunch of mad ppl... stayed up till 5 am writing warm fuzzies to the kids from my group and cat class group.
Day 3
OK it was rather sad that everyone had to leave the place and get on with their lives aft that..i mean i can relate cuz i was in their positions once too.. haha feels quite long ago... all their skits were veri farnie... it was really a laugh to watch them acting... haha... and after mass, when the sec 2s went up on stage to do the dip dip dance it felt really nostalgic... couldn't but help smiling at all of them being so happy.. gosh i'm turning soft... I dunnno but i feel like i've got this sense of attachement to the kids now... they're really a great bunch of kids... dunno which rare few will come back to help out like us though.. hope John does... he'll be an asset... *nods*
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