-Outward Bound Singapore-
im back from obs! actually was back on friday... lol.. anyway, i had a really great time at obs. my watch was Cook.
Instructor: Kenn
Us: Trent, Michael Lian, Jansen, Joshua, Kai Xiang, Kelvin, Hygiene, Joey, Xing Hao, Mok Chin Hao, Terrence, Samuel, Bernard and me. (Yi Jiang too, bu he fell sick half way and had to leave..)
yup, thats us. haha, was a really great watch, though we didnt really start out that well. i still remember on the first day where there was some probs with the group, mainly that no one wanted to do things for the group so it was like just left to me and trent ( the 2 scouts ) to do all the stupid crap. so that night, kenn told us that he could also see that there as a prob aand told us we needed to sort it out. so we gathered in one corner, and trent started like talking and talking.. i added a bit here and there.. mainly about how the group is not functioning as a group, rather as individuals. after taht i thought there was not going to be any changes cuz it looked as if no one had listened. but we were wrong. we started to work together, packing our bags, rationing the food, carrying the tents. we started to share the load, that was really heartening.
one of the memorable activites was the high elements. we first had to cross a bridge with a rope hanging overhead to help us balance. than we had to cross a log, hung in mid air by chains, with nothing to hold onto for support. than came the worst. we had to walk on 2 metal wires, nothing to hold onto, nothing as support. in the end everyone used the belay as a handle. lol... but it was fun cheering people on and trying it out.
then there was also "The Final Commitment", which apparently only our watch and Raleigh did. =) haha, it was just basically a tunnel underground. its pitchblack. seriously. cant see a thing in there. absolutely. black. only way out was in, so we had to go through the tunnel, feel our way around until we got to the exit. actually i kinda knew it was gonna be short, cuz kenn told me to go in through one pipe, and i saw another pipe like just a few feet away.. lol.. what was weirder was that when i came out, there was no one around. kenn had gone off somewhere, so i was like wondering around. than remembered that he pointed to somewhere in the trees and said that the others were waiting there, so i just went there and found them.. hmm.. wonder what it meant..
so yea, i had a really fun time. but u know it was like the last camp i had gone for was eurojam, which was really really the best camp i have been to, so i was abit disappointed in the first few days, but slowly obs caught on. "To Serve To Strive And Not To Yield." the motto of OBSingapore. yes, memories will stay with me. will always remember this.
ps. will try to put up the group photo once we get it.
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