Friday, November 7, 2008
8:26 PM
came back two days ago on wednesday from YOG camp.
day 1
arrived at MOE labrador park adventure centre and had lots and lots and lots of talks about olympism and a former singaporean running legend.i was freaking interested in that one la.i shook hands with Mr C.Kunalan.
Then team-building games,blindfolding and find the rope and jumping on 'lilypads' to get one side of people on the other side and so on and so forth.
then group time and more talks.
and the food was goddamn good,throughout.
we were supposed to come out with a skit and a cheer for day 2's cultural night,where every country group had to present a cheer of their own and a skit about that country.
My group was beijing.so we discussed about it at night.some did the banner,some came up with the cheer,and i was in the group that was supposed to do the skit.we discussed this topic and that topic.
wrote down all the good points,then formed a skit but our facilitator didn't approve,and we had to admit it was ludicrous.
in the end we came up with bounded feet.there was a tradition in ancient china that involved the binding of young girl's feet,as they believe that they will look prettier that way and get married.didn't rehearse but basically understood the storyline.
everyone was cracking their head about what to present,and i was looking down at the floor,playing with a dropped rambutan when i suddenly glanced up and saw them adding condensed milk to our milo for supper for those who want it.
"I know,melamine!"
that night,the athletes came.i had my journalism workshop and the teacher was goddamn funny and made us all laugh until we had stomach cramps.my group was assigned to Eric and Mark Chay.i was supposed to interview them(journalism) but ended up talking instead.swimming what.so i was like asking him questions about olympic village and talking normally,not at all like interviews.it was great fun talking to the athletes.i got the autograph of mark chay on the information paper given to our group.
Interesting,i find.
it reminded me of one time i went to the sports school for a swimming event and during lunchtime i sat down opposite Tao Li in the dining hall and had a good,long talk with her.it's actually very interesting talking to athletes you know.you should try,it's great fun,i'm not kidding.
day 2
had a lot of talks most of the time,i mostly remember the facilitators telling us almost after every lunchtime or dinnertime to go up to the hall.
had to rub our right hands full of blue paint for the Beijing banner.so fun.
and group time,and talks,and finally cultural night.
it was freaking fun,the most fun i've ever had at a camp before.
the whole hall did the chicken dance together,so fun.
every group presented their cheer and skit and it was fun fun fun.thats the only way to describe it.never so much fun in a camp before.
FUN FUN FUN.
day 3
in the morning we had the olympic torch lighting.people came and we had a great time,cheering like we never cheered before.after that had events.Events!the ancient olympics.we were supposed to each pick an event and we had the 'ancient olympics' on day 3 morning.chariot race,javelin,discus,and they even had the shouting competition.it was really according to ancient times.i was in long jump,one of my favourites together with high jump.
it was really,really,i can tell you,really following the ancient times.the long jump didn't involve running.it was like standing broad jump but with a huge pile of sand in front of you,and we used weights like the ancient times because it was supposed to propell you forward.then we were supposed to swing back our arms and drop the weights onto the sand and thats it.it was different but i had to admit it was real fun.i got six feet.there was this guy from sports school,i guess about sec3 or 4 that jumped 8 and a half feet.isn't that cool?
then cleaned up.assigned to cleaning the toilets.almost the whole canteen cheered when they were assigned to the canteens,the shed where we did all our banners,the workshop rooms and so on.a lot of people have this misconception that cleaning the toilets is the worst you can ever have for the clean-up program.i can tell you thats wrong because trust me,the toilets are the easiest and i'm freaking not kidding.just take the hose and spray in every cubicle,use the thongs to pick up the guys' underwear and use the mop or that mob-scrub to scrub the floor area,which generally isn't that big especially in camps with detergent,and in the end just use the hose and wash everything down the drain and,wow,you're all done.
it sounds difficult but the canteen actually has more.Really.the toilets are the easiest.