Friday, March 24, 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SHU YI AND YI FEN!!!!!!
Yep...It's the CL'S birthday today! And so is Yi Fen's! Ha ha...and the PLs even got a cake for dear Shu Yi...aww.....how sweet.. x)
Official meeting
Time: 2.30pm to 5.30pm
Ok, back to today's meeting. Well, before Guides officially started, we had to put up the flagpole. And we took about 20 mins to put up the flagpole, which is we know is a really long time, plus Kai Ling was there.... stress ah! We ended up making our new ca teacher wait under the hot sun..dressed in black!!! Anyway...we got off to a bad start because we overshot the starting time of our Guides meeting...and in the end, we fell in at 2.45. Yu Ling fell us in at the field and we had the usual spotcheck.
From there, we were given 4 minutes to change out. And we had to go to the toilet at Mother ST John block just to change! Oh dear, everyone was running like mad!!
When we changed into our PE attire, we ran back to the parade square and Jessica fell us into the horseshoe formation. The PLs were checking the condition of our Guides uniform which was hung on the metal railing beside the parade square. many people were scolded for not hanging their Guides uniform properly. And since they were unhappy with this, they made have a changing parade....it was quite a nightmare for some people, but if you're used to changing...then it isn't so bad after all. So anyway...that was our punishment for"disrespecting" our Guides uniform. We had to change in and out TWICE...not including the first change out we had.
And after that...it started to rain!!!
Since Ashleigh was the flagbearer, She had to change quik as lightning and quickly take down the flag.The rest of us helped to take down the flagpole.we quickly ran over to where we had hung out Guides uniform and brought it to the den, away from the rain.
We got to rest in the canteen for a short while, and we took this time to apologise to the new cca teacher for making her wait out iunder the hot sun. Then Jessica fell us in at the area near the St gabe's staircase and we continued doing footdrill. Then when it stopped raining , we moved on to the parade square...again... and...continued marching! This time Yu Pei fell us in. She asked us to bring our water bottles to the parade square, so now we all knew what was coming next....
SOME MORE F-o-o-t-d-r-i-l-l!!!! ahhhh!!!! So from 3 plus to 5 we had footdrill....it was really, very exhausting. And we asked for quite a few water breaks in- between , and our legs were totally numb from standing and marching. Meanwhile, Joanne and Runjin were asked to go and train the sec ones on footdrill commands.
Then Shu Yi came along, so we sang to her a birthday song.(: Finally, it was 5 plus, so as promised, we were allowed to play a game or two before fall out. So we played the game called "splat" and i won! yay! And then we played dog and bone...and my team won...yeah! haha..
After that we fell in and were given 4 mins to change. When we fell in in a horseshoe formation already, The PLs brought out Shu Yi's birthday cake and since che was hiding in the canteen, we sang her a birthday song again...really loudly!!! So this meeting ended on a happy note, and after this, we were dismissed.
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Date: 16 March 2006
Day:Thursday
Unofficial meeting
time: 7.55 to 12 pm ~DAY CAMP THREE ~ day camp three~
YES! Today's the last day of camp! I am so happy!!!! Do you know what's the best thing about these three day camps??? I'll tell you...there's NO FOOTDRILL!!! Oh yeah...haha..ok...getting down to today's camp. We did not start off the day well...not at all.
In the morning,Shu Yi fell us in.After we fell out,we had a talk about how badly we did during the past 2 day camps. Halfay through the scolding, we had to change location beacuse we were obstructing the pathway. Continuing with the lecture...baically...they scolded us for not echoing "fall in" loudly, for not greeting the teachers like they were totally invisible, why the attendance was just so horrible, so few people present..and many other bad points. Well....after the scolding we knew what to improve on and i guess the scolding left a big impression on all of us.
And after that, we had a water parade!!! We were all so bloated...so full...very full. Yup, after that we went back to our campfire components.For the overall deco people, there were only three people,so it was quite slack. Thay did some waxing thing, they had to paste the glittery circles onto larger circles using wax! Afetr a while, other PLs from other components came and thought it was quite fun , so they also started sticking too. They did this until 11.30 , before they started packing up.
And the firepit people continued soaking the firewood. And finally, the structure girls.... we tied a tripod and then opened it up.We also tied the stabilisers and the PLs then checked if it was tight, by stepping onto the stabilisers. I think it was okay. We also tied diagonals across the tripod by tying squarelash. After that , we took it dovn and untied all the knots. After that, we kept back all the poles to get ready for fall out.
Meanwhile, some girls were called by miss Tiru to help her find in the hall. they were to search for any trophies that were dated from the year 1950 to 2000. They did not come for the fall out as they were still in the hall helping out.
By this time, it was 11 plus going to 12 soon, and one of the PLs fell us in. After some announcements, we were dismissed.
Signing off,
Cheryl
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Date: 15 march 2006
Day:Wednesday
Unofficial meeting
Time:7.55 am to 5.30 pm
DAY CAMP TWO - day camp two - DAY CAMP TWO
Today,Shu Yi fell us in at 7.55 am. After that we went into our own campfire components.For overall deco people,they had to cut out large circles out of cardboard and put alot of glitter onto it. It was quite a boring job to some of them, having to stare at those glittery circles....and they kept on doing this until lunch time!
Meanwhile, the firepit people were busy soaking wood, as usual. Thay borrowed a trolley to put the firewood , it was btter than carrying it around! And they saoked,and soaked, and soaked all day long!
Not forgetting STRUCTURE!!! We also tied squarelashes to make a ladder and we also made 2 quadropods. At this time,many seniors came back for a visit. Charmaine,Erika,Gek Shan,Ethel.....and alot more. It wasn't all happy and sweet when we were tying all the different structures. One of the sec 2s got scolded by Erika for not watching the base when we were tying the quadropod, so though we made 2 quads, we could only open one. Awww....that girl almost cried... ) :
After that, all of us went to eat our lunch,which was provided. We had a meal of white rice with fish,vegetables and spring rolls...yum yum...! (: After we had a short rest, we went back to our campfire components, but this time, the overall deco came over to structure,after they had packed up their stuff in the canteen. The item girls also came over to structure.
Now almost everyone in guides was in the structure component and once there, they learnt how to tie a new knot, also called diagonal lashing. Everyone helped to open up the quadropod...Erika's way...haha...that is to pull open all four sides of the quad at the same time and then put it down on the ground at the same time. oh well....(: It took an eternity to get it up, but finally we managed to put it up. x) After that, we tied the stabilisers to the quad and the PLs checked our knots to see how tight it was. As some of the knots were loose, we had to retie them. So after we were done with tying all the structures, we could rest for awhile. Then we went back to close the quad with the help of Erika . when it was almost timeto go home, we kept all the poles back to the pole area, and after everything was done, Shu Yi fell us in, and it was HOME SWEET HOME!
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
okies! i know i'm the slowest ever at updating blogs...ok...so truth be told,i did
not go for the day camps....i was in la la land...haha..on holiday.(: So i took really long to glean all this information from various people. So here's the summary for the first guides Day camp.
DAY CAMP ONE// day campone// DAY CAMP ONE//
Date:14 March 2006
Day: Tuesday
Time: 7.55 to 5.30pm
Unofficial meeting
By the way, many of us did not come for the first two days of camp because of leadership camp.
So firstly,Shu Yi fell us in near the canteen. After we fell out,we went into our campfire components.The structure girls, had to tie about 2 quadropods. The PLs also tied the quadropod because they had nothing to do.(: Meanwhile the firepit people continued to soak wood, in the end some of them came over to structure to help us out. And what happened to our juniors???Oh yes, Joanne,Kai Shi,Amelia, ashleigh...and a few others taught a sec one girl,Denise how to tie the different types of knots. The rest of the sec ones were in other campfire components.We also opened both quadropods and then tied the stabilisers.The PLs then checked if it was stable and if the knots were tight.
We were all quite tired by now...half the day had passed. The worst thing was that we were not provided with lunch, so we were let off at around 12.20 to buy our own food...bleh.We were only given half an hour to eat our food and come back to school.When we came back to school, we fell in near the canteen.We were given a bit of time to unwind x) We had to fall in again because our echo wasn't loud enough...i guess...>< Then we went back to our campfire components.There were seniors who came back today,like Ethel,Kai Ling and Debra. Some of the sec 2s who had science camp also came back for the rest of the guides meeting.
Debra went to backdrop to help out. She was helping them paint the "swinging sixties" banner. After that,the structure girls untied the quadropods and put back the poles. The rest cleaned up the canteen and then we fell in at the parade square. After that,we were dismissed! Yeah! I'm done..haha!
Signing off here..Cheryl
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