"i'm back, i'm back!"

yay! i survived 4days and 3nights away from home, at a small island far far away from beloved singapore.

arrived in school at 7.30am on the morning of the 13th, assembled and took a long busride to punggol jetty. went up a huge boat thingy, and set off for Pulau Ubin! reached the Outward Bound Singapore campsite, where we got divided into 3 groups. my group was Kim San, named after some guy. group members were Shuhua, Jamie, Belinda, Sheng Xian, Hui May, Jacques, Weeming, Guoxiang, Anthony, Bryan, Zhenyang, Jason and me! and our instructor was Shukor! arrived at our pretty bunks, checked out the cool double beds, and divided the sections for girls and boys. had a briefing about different sorts of ropes, and different knots such as the figure 8 knot and so on. went on to start building a raft out of long heavy tubes, barrels and ropes. tied the ropes like crazy, hand ached too. the guys were very helpful in lifting the raft while we tied the knots, and also carrying heavy stuff about. managed to get our raft to float, and it was pretty fast! that was until the instructor made us jump into the water and manually paddle. so when we tried to get back on, the barrels popped out of the ropes, and we had to push it all the way back to shore. it was tiring, yet we had loads of fun :)

at night, the girls played bridge, and i was sitting there and trying to figure out what it was about, but still didnt get it. guys ate like half of my gummies >.< style="font-style: italic;">
last day! climbed a high element obstacle course called the inverse tower with shuhua, and it required us to help each other here and there. it was slippery on the logs, and we had to support each other to make it to the top! and we did :D belayed a few people, which is kinda tiring, yet fun! after that, went back to the bunk for the last time, and cleared everything, and packed our stuff. went to the souvenier shop and bought Tshirts! all at low prices hohoho. took some time to do an evaluation form with our instructor, taking last minute group photos etc.

boarded the Symphony (boat) and headed back to lovely Singapore! where jacques dad kindly gave me, anthony, guoxiang, weeming a ride to pasir ris :D and here i am, home sweet home :D

this camp was pretty independant, and the instructors did not really watch over us as much as the OAC instructors. gave us loads of learning opportunities! 4days passed in a breeze, hope you guys going for Course 2 will enjoy every memorable event that will take place!

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