St. Nicholas
just got back from strings camp. gonna start describing from the
BEGINNING. (:
okay. ur so in for it.
DAY 1:
7.55am --> near the reception counter. me, casstan, and nat lim waited impatiently for amanda so that we can go to the MEP room together. dunno why we had to do that. cass tan, nat lim, and amanda's idea..
8.05 am --> amanda finally reached. all of us were like : whew! okay, then we headed towards the mep room. there.. at a floor above, we threw down our sleeping bags to the ppl below to catch. lazy to carry larhh.. so heavy. okay not exactly. but still... threw down to michLYY. she arh.. didn't catch properly. mine landed in the drain! oh dammit. okay. luckily i put in plastic bag.. so doesn't hurt. (: im smart.. DUH. ((:
8.10am --> we reached the mep room. saw mrs tham talking to our seniors. so the sec ones just stood aside and talked amongst ourselves.
8.25 am --> mrs tham finally finished her LONG speech. and i mean LONG! okay. we went in and put our stuff down.. then the sec3s who are the organisers of this camp asked us all to sit down in our grps. mine was jenkins. we had bernedatte as a leader. yay! (:
8.3o am --> mrs tham talked abt hong kong. ack. some trip involving the main orchestra.. none of my beewax. sat down there looking bored.
8.45 am --> okay. now mrs tham is scolding the sec 3s for not informing them abt the changes in the camp etc. the sec 3s all bent their head down to the maximum.. aww... poor things. ): thanks sec3s! for the great camp!
9 am --> okay. they made the sec ones introduce ourselves.. like they gave us the format: name. class. why we like S.O. okay. i was so dumb can? i actually went: im jessica frm one faith. i like S.O. because.. (then a long erm) of the annoying seniors. okay. i suck. totally. i should have said something like: because i like being an asshole. that sounds more.. ME. okay. got a black mark for my grp. ack.
9.10am --> went out to the slope outside mep room for icebreakers. okay. nobody understood the first game. so we gave up after like.. 5 mins? yeah. i paired up with this senior called audrey or sth. yarhh.
9.15am --> went into the room for another game of icebreaker. sth like.. sit in a circle.. then.. hm.. then wad? oh yah, say in chinese: da4 feng1chui1.chui1shen2me? then say sth like chui1na4xie1chuan1wa4zi3deren2 (blow the ppl who wear socks.) then the ppl who fit the criteria will stand up and change place. of cuz run lah. then the person left standing without a place gotta u know stand in the middle and do the da4feng1chui1 thing. ppl who did it more than twice gotta do a forfeit. okay. hilary went first. she was asked to flirt with mary-anne. yuck! she did it lor! every1 laughed lik hell.. then the sec ones were let off since it was our camp (:
9.30am --> next game: we were split and given nos. okay i was no5. the thing is that when they call the no, the person of tht no from both side gotta run to the middle and get the cardboard. (looks like some crumpled newspaper tho.. but anyways) okay. i won the first round. but the 2nd round i wasn paying attention cuz i was tying my hair. oops. ):
9.45am --> okay. we played contact which was like so damn lame?? played it anyway.
10 am --> okay then we had a briefing by the sec 3s. tea break was cancelled. okay nvm. doesn't make a difference anyway. then came practice time. we decided to practice our french folk tune. actually i wanted to do sth more than just that cuz the french folk tune sounds so... PATHETIC. but the viola-ists and cellists couldn't do it. handle harder songs i mean. cant blame them though. they just started learning. so we played the same song over and over again. for the first half hr i couldn't play.. cuz my e-string on my violin snapped and i had to get joy to help me.. thanks joy! (okay. just found out frm mary--anne that joy was actually wretling with my e string. mary--anne did it for me in the end.lol.) then after that it was practice and practice. *yawns*
1pm --> okay. we are kinda late for lunch. had lunch in canteen. chicken rice. not so bad lahh. (: don mind chicken rice.
1.45 pm --> went back to practice. just to find out that the ensemble room is used. we ended up watching the cellists have their sectionals.
2.45 pm --> okay. jana saw that we violinists had to watch the cellists. so she invited us over to watch them instead. okay. they were like damn good? tsk tsk. all diploma standards. i mean the violin ones.. the violin2s are like grade 8 standard. which are like so good also. whew!
3pm--> we got the ensemble room back and we went back to practice. so we sat down and practice and practice.
3.30pm --> the sec3s came to call us to get ready for scavenger hunt. abt 15 mins briefing.
3.45pm --> start of scavenger hunt. we got this clue that says sth about carrots.. we guessed it was the playground but were hesitant abt going there. when we finally went there, jana was getting impatient. okay. so we tied our hands together and had to cross this netting with our hands tied. kinda hard at first.. but got quite fun after that. (: yeah.we did it. got 5 ice-cream sticks. woohoo! (: okay.. we then got the clue from jana and proceeded to find the next clue. we were very sure the next clue was in a pond. and a dirty one. we searched the pond near the container classroom first. we found nothing. we then split up to the diff ponds. one at the primary side and one at the family lounge. we cant find anything. we went back again. to the dirty pond i mean. then bernedatte searched the fire extinguisher hose. and opened it. and there it was. pasted write behind the door. we then dunno proceed to what station lahh.. i cant remember. but for the games, we did: the playground one(tie ur hands together), the bar of soap(dissolve the soap), the eraser one(build a structure without looking at it), the balloons one (transport balloons using 3 hands 9 legs. bernedatte carried me.. oh my.), the letters one (blindfolded and gotta communicate somehow.), the eating one (we had to eat celeries, carrot with celery bits juice, and twisties in warm fizzy drink!! YUCK!!!!!), etc. i think there are somemore.. but i cant remember them all..
6.30 pm --> we went back to get our stuff from the mep room then went to the bathroom to bathe. wengjun was like all geared up.. all ready to "cheong" for the toilet. haha. so kiasu. okay. bathing was okay. cause me and another grp got the best toilet(: the one wif showers and all(: our senios were nice AS USUAL. they didn't rush us bernedatte was like going: "ur take ur time, slowly bathe. we very tired." aww..
7.30 pm --> okay, we proceeded to macdonalds. there i saw my aunt. she must be waiting for my sister's abacus lesson to finish. i saw her and waved. okay. ya. i ate mcchickens. dropped cabbage all over the chair and manda was screaming at me. tsk tsk. okay. there were too much fries and wenman refused to eat her's so we had to packet back to the mep room. but joy told me i had to finish it fast. cuz it'll turn soggy later. then i was like : yeah, sure. okay. i know.
8.15pm --> we went to 7-11s. manda bought some sweets. okay. then we moved off. back to school i mean. DUH.
9 pm --> okay. elections start. elections for president and vice-president. candidates: yeu shinq, jia ling, sarah, and zixin. first to come out to make her speech was jia ling. (: she was good, yeah. but i knew that she didn't like the pose. okay.. then yeu shinq or was it sarah? was next. they were both good. okay then zixin was last, she sounded like she was interviewing for welfare-in-charge position. hahas. (: okay then after that, those going to hongkong had to go give the teachers their family's particulars.
10.30 pm --> jia ling got scolded for "losing" a "$500" score. okay. then after that they come and tell us that joy was kidnapped and wanted us to solve the mystery of who kidnapped joy.lol. at once, every1 thought of jia ling.. but then it was just too siimple we reasoned.. so we decided to think things more complicated. okay. so the first room we entered(storeroom).. we were so scared.. grace, michelle and i kept going: wheres bernedatte? we miss her...haha.. in the end.. it was nothing. just some crazy sec 3s out to pull our legs. *3 droplets of sweat* haha. i liked the room with the toilet paper girl. (: haha. we sat there for 15mins just pestering her. she was like going wo3 de ma1 ya4! [............]in the end we put zixin which was wrong.. sighs, anyway.. we had fun
11.55pm --> okay. its movie time. there were 2 shows going on.. i watched honey.. this show that bernedatte said was extremely cool.. i wanted to find out for myself.. well.. it was okay lahh.. but i prefer HORRER.(:
2.15am --> bedtime. okay. i think u get my point.
DAY 27am --> okay. i woke up. nat and cass heard their alarms. but they were so tired they went to sleep again. i had to shake cass, nat, and manda in turn. no one wants to wake up. then i heard a commotion outside. okay... like tell me whats new.. the sec3s stole one shoe from every pair of shoes! tsk tsk. saying its some civics moral education or sth. urgh. seriously. okay. i went back to annoying manda, cass and nat.7.25am --> FINALLY those sleepy heads decided to get up. we went to the toilet to wash up..
7.45am --> okay. went for breakfast. on the way, we saw st johns. oh those poorthings. they had to march so early in the morning WITHOUT breakfast! for breakfast we had: 2 slices of bread, 2 sausages, an egg, ice milo. and we were sitting there complaining that the food was too much.. and that the egg yolk was runny... etc. and wad do stjohns get for breakfast??! 2 slices of PLAIN bread with a cup of milo. and here we are complaining! we felt so bad after that.. its like we're spite-ing them eating with them.
8.45 am --> we went back to mep room.. we got the keys frm joy first. okay. we set up our instruments and get ready for our pathetic performance. okay. i was like so embarassed? cuz there they are playing songs of diploma standards.. while here we are.. playing a piece that didn't even meet a grade one's standard!! sighs.. okay. then when we play finished.. mrs tham was giving us this LOOOOOOONG lecture abt the style of our music.. the standard we are at.. i wanted to go:
"hey come on! these people just picked up the cellos and violas. they are no mozarts. how do you expect them to play with style when they cant even find their note?! we need time man, time. i picked up the violin b4 this so i have no problem.. but wad abt the cellists and viola-ists??! this is so ridiculous!"
12.15pm -->okay, then i changed into my jeans skirt. change of plan. we went to seoul garden instead. everyone knows why. no need to state. okay.. it was an eat-all-you-like lunch. i was bloated when i walked outta there. oh and not to mention totally disgusted by wengjun's weird concoctions. (: there were: fried noodles, barbecued beehoon, fried rice, wierdo soup, maggie spaghetti etc.
>> oh wells.. overall, we had fun and were sad that the camp ended so early.. we all head our own way after that.
a perfect end to a perfect camp. (:
Swinged it at;
12:50 PM
