This was my most favourite day!~ enjoy :P
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7am
The air was cold, but I like it. Everyone in the girls dorm started to wake up and went to the toilet. Of course, me and wen xiu went to the toilet together and brush our teeths there. We didn't want to change in the toilet as it was disgusting. So... we changed in the girls dorms. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 3: CHANGING IN AN OPEN HALL HAHHAHAHA. We're all girls, come on. I changed into T-Shirt and shorts because that day, for Group 1 to 6, are water activities.
7.30 am
Me and my friends rushed down to the field for our morning exercise. The ashes from the campfire were still there. Everyone's faces were sleepy and half dead. I found my dear group and lined up in a single file. An old guy, one of the facilitators, guided us. We did some simple exercise, the normal stretching exercises. After that, we were split into 2 big groups. Each group had to form 1 inner circle and 1 outer circle. They were a few teachers doing it with us. We had to talk to the person opposite us from the inner circle. I was at the outer circle.
8.30am
Breakfast
FINALLY! We were all hungry and bored of the exercise. Most of us don't like the old facilitator. Our breakfast was fried rice/meehoon with crackers. I can't say it was really nice nor it was bad. After we ate, me and wen xiu went back to our dorm to get ready for our first Activity: White Water Rafting. (Y) this was the only activity I was excited about before camp. And little did I know, it was our first Activity!
9.30am
Group 1 to 6 gathered outside the first aid open hall or which I called it... the girls dorm. One of the facilitators briefed us on what will happen and what if this happens.
The boat has 3 sections. Front, middle, back. There were two platforms to divide the sections. So ended up with spaces in each section. I thought we were suppose to sit in those section and paddle but NO... we had to sit on the side... it's hard to explain I'll show you the picture.
Each boat has 6 people and 1 guide. We get to choose our own teammates :3 I went with Yiting, Shim, Milton, Darryl and Chin Yu. We know each other but we're not close *exception Yiting and Shim (mah awesome friends)* Our group was just right because we had big and sma size :3
10am (approximately)
Our guide was Adik. All the guides spoke English which was convenient. We had to carry our rafting boat to the river. Behind us were the teachers : Tr May Peng, Tr Melinda, Tr Andy, Tr Zax and Tr Angie. How cute! All the teachers in one boat! :3
They were a few codes to remember, when the guide says it we have to do what he says:
Paddle forward
Padde backward
Boom boom: When we were approaching a big rapid, we have to sit at the space below us
On the line: we have to return to our
Positions
Hold the rope: When we were approaching a rapid we have to hold the rope beside us which was attached to the boat.
High five: everyone lifts their paddle up on the air and hit the water.
10.30am
Action time! :D
We had a fun time carrying our boat to the river(situated outside the resort) because Tr Zax was making fun. We settled our boat on the river and everyone got in. I was personally scared but really excited. We can never let go of the T-grip (paddle). We did a warm up rapid, a small one. Milton fell out of our boat, everyone panicked. Then one of the guide threw him a rope and he grabbed on to it. Phew. Shim then was really scared.
3 sat on the left side of the boat, 3 sat on the right side. The guide was at the back.
Left: Darryl. Milton. Yiting
Right: Chin Yu. Shim. Me
The river was 2 km long, 15 rapids in total. At the... 4th rapid. It was the biggest rapid, it was a drop, I must say. When we dropped, the whole boat was flooded with water, we almost sank. There was another rapid, double-decker, it was 1 drop after another. It was really fun!!
There was one rapid, Milton and Darryl went to the right side (our side) and the boat almost capsized. But they went back to their original position.
11.30 (approximately)
Rest stop
There was this big rest stop. Where the was no rapid. Every boat had to capsize. Our guide asked Yiting, Milton and Darryl to move to our side on his signal. When they moved, the guide moved too and used the rope to capsize the boat.
I never experience this before so it was new to me. I was really scared, what if I couldn't get up. What if I was stuck. When the boat capsized, Water went into my nose, someone was on top of me. My hand still held on to the paddle. It was hard to swim to shore with my left hand occupied and the current.
We then rest and played water and swam around. Teacher Zax and Teacher Andy climbed up a tree and jumped down from the tree. A lot of us followed them and climbed the tree. There were a few who did a backflip. Teacher May Peng climbed up too. I didn't want to because I was tired and just want to relax. But me and Yiting cheered them on.
11.45...?
We then continued our journey. The rapids weren't that huge anymore so our expectations went low. Because we were the 4th group to go, the teachers boat was infront of us. At one of the rapids, they were so proud and confident, they waved to our boat and be like, bye!!! But who knows, they were stuck at the rocks. They had to bounce to be free. Then our boat went, it was our turn to say bye.
My left hand was painful because I was holding the T-grip too tightly.
12.30pm....?
We saw the boats infront of us stopped and they got off. Uh-oh. My worst moment. The rafting came to an end D: I was so disappointed and was begging for more. It was so fun! >< even Shim, the one who was scared, demanded for more! We climbed up a small slope and saw the truck waiting for us! :D
The truck ride was really fun, we had to stand at the back of the truck. I and a few friends were standing by the side. There were tree branches and leaves coming right at us and we had to duck. We joked that when we said boom boom, means duck because branches were coming. I got tree-slapped a few times. But it was so fun :D
1pm
We were the first group who arrived back at camp. The other 2 groups were not back yet. We returned our equipments and wash our boot because it was an ocean in my boot. XD me and Yiting washed our hair because the helmet was smelly XD we were already wet so why not?
I went back to the dorm and got my towel and decided to head to the canteen. Teacher May Peng was relaxing on the hammock near our dorm. She called for me and we chatted about camp ^^
2pm
The other 2 groups were back. 1 of the groups look exhausted and was sweating A LOT. Apparently, they got lost in the jungle. I shivered. We had our lunch in our wet outfit. Our next activity was WATERFALL ABSEILING, we're getting wet again so why bother to change?
4pm
Truck again it is!
We rode the truck again. Group 1 to 6. We laughed the whole way long. But I was really scared eventhough I abseiled before.
We reached the Waterfall in 10 minutes time. The guide gave us a brief demonstration. The Waterfall was 10m high. Well it wasn't THAT high. Group 1 were the first to go. Well, luck. My group was the last to go. :/ so we watched every single one of them to abseil down.
There were 3 stages to choose from: easy, medium, hard.
Easy was just beside the waterfall
Medium was in the middle of the waterfall
Hard was to the left of the waterfall Where the current was the strongest.
Adrian was the first who went down, hr went too fast and slip a few times. But he was fast. Wen xiu and I sat with the other groups at the bottom of the waterfall (not directly)
As time pass I was very cold because of the mist and the water so I went further down where Ashley and Dylan were.
5pm
It was going at a slow pace. Group 2 just went as they were limited amount of harnesses. I was really cold and was shivering, Ashley made it worst by splashing water at me. We had to wait for a long time. Lionel, who was group 1, haven't abseil down yet. Yune-wen was laughing about it and yelled hoping Lionel would hear it.
6pm
Almost there...
Group 4 was doing it. It was going at a really slow pace. I was about to become ice. Group 5 went and the teachers said that the other groups were bored and hungry so group 1 to 5 went back. WOW hahhaha. Which was good actually. Only a few of group 5 were still there.
6.30pm
Gearing up and action
Teacher May peng helped me to gear up. Wenxiu, Celene were already up there. I had to climbed to reach. It was a short and easy climb. To my surprise, ChinYu and his friends (group 5) were still up there. They said they wanted to go last. Teacher Zax and Teacher Andy were up there too. They already abseiled but they chose to help us up there :3
I wanted the easy one (but I regretted not doing the medium one ><) I made a deal with Jordan, he and I were to abseiled down together, he did the medium and I did easy. It was scary and my hands hurt A LOT.
Jordan was ahead of me but I passed him half way because my hands were really hurting. You need a lot of physical strength for this one. Right hand to hold your weight, left to lower yourself. Legs were not a problem. And you have to trust the harness and lean back.
I didn't bother to look at the camera man who was by the waterfall. And i was really fast because my hands were hurting. I slipped twice:
The first time I slipped I landed on the platform. Lucky me.
Second time. I slipped and i couldn't get up. I swung to the left but eventually I got back up and abseiled down. I reached the bottom before Jordan and realized my legs were shaking. The water current was stronger than before because it was already late. Teacher Zax said good job and I thanked him. I removed my helmet and harness and hung them up by the rope.
Wenxiu, Shen yin and Hui en were already down,pouring the water out from their shoes. We then watched Teacher May Peng, Teacher Angie and Teacher Melinda abseiled down.
7pm
Truck ride again!
It was dark on the way back. It was just 10+ of us. Joseph and I always wanted to be in the front of the truck. When the truck arrived, both of us shouted : Dibs in the front! And we ran to the truck and often argued who said it first. But both of us ended up in the front.
Teacher Zax, Joseph, Adam and Wengkin were in the front. We used the truck ride as a temple run reference : night edition. I asked: where's the power up? And they laughed. Teacher Zax said: it's ok guys. I use cheat. XD it was really fun!
8pm
We had dinner and I had to get ready for the next Activity. JUNGLE NIGHT WALK. It was from group 1 to 9. Kheng Yue and Fifi were going on the next day. Lucky... I was really tired.
9pm
Jungle Night Walk
We had to walk in a single-file. There were a few rules to obey.
1. We had to remember who was infront and behind of us.
2. Do not call each others name.
3. Do not scream.
4. Do not shine the torchlight everywhere.
5. We must pass messages to the person behind or infront of us.
The jungle night walk was normal to me. It was cooling and dark. And it doesn't seem like 2 hours. We were supposed to cross a river but the river was blocked by bamboos (yes!) So we went back to camp. I was really tired at the end of the day. Wenxiu and I went to bathe together and slept at 1am. Again
It was fun day. Rafting was awesome and I knew day 3 is a very tiring day.
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