Sunday, February 26, 2006 @2/26/2006 03:33:00 PM
the last three days were like a holiday, not like a camp at all...though there were timetables, there were minimal rules to follow... it was like a fun camp just to bond us together..
anyway, the first day, since the campsite is like 4 hrs frm the city, we arrived at abt 230pm at the campsite. the place is a popular tourist spot, at the foot of a mountain. all around is nature & recently, there was a bush fire, thus part of the mountain range seems brown becos of burnt trees. we were spilt into diff. lodges and they were quite big as abt 6 pple sleep in one rm. out gp had ropes activity first, which includes high elements, like the usual adventure camp. we were not forced to try and some backed out.. haha.. the trainer asked me to try to belay & my arms were quite sore by the end of the activity.. maybe he tot i needed more muscles. haha.... & is my name so hard to rem? he asked my name for the sixth time..sigh...but it was fun...the gd thing was tat the weather was great, not too hot.
dinner was next and we had fish and chips... after dinner, we were allowed to choose frm a variety of activities to do... we could bathe and do watever we like, or there was a night walk around the area in search of kangaroos and there was creative writing, appreciation of aust. comedy and there was also yoga!! and lastly there was also an australian musical lesson, where to learn how to blow their traditional instrument, the long hollow wooden tube.. tot that was quite cool.. haha.. i decided to go fo the australian comedy and learning to blow the instrument.....
the second day of camp, 25 feb, we had to be ready by 730. we had archery after breakfast which was ready hard... i couldn't shoot any arrows onto the board... hehe... but just after a turn, i decided to go for the biking trip instead.. so i left my gp, along with several others and we cycled in the national park nearby and saw many kangeroos... they were like hopping so fast & looked realy adorable... ahaha... the trainer explained to us that the kangeroos like to travel in groups of 700...after the trip was tea time then we had team challenge where we did a series of challenges as a team.. like being blindfolded and moving in a line, we had to walk through a forest.... it was really exciting cos the obstacle was quite challenging, we had to duck to avoid the branches overhead, go over fallen logs on the forest bed etc.. luckily the guy in front was like directing me, where trees were etc.. i was like clunging on to his shoulder & my frien was pulling my shirt.. haha....it was quite scary.... there were other team actcities but too long to explain.. haha.. overall, it was really fun...
after lunch, we were supposed to go abseiling, but too bad it rained heavily and we cant do it anymore.... sigh.. it was not an artificial rock but a real mountain, so we were all looking forward to it...we had no choice and thus we played card games like UNO and bluff etc... there were like jokers in the gp and they made those lame jokes & making us all laugh... haha.. really reminds me of wei liang.. HI...haha... that evening, we had similar night activities like the night before and we had a photography competition where there was a slideshow on the photos taken during camp... anyone can submit the photos and the best were picked out. some of the pic were really weird and funny.. haha..
26 feb, morning, after breakfast, we walked to the nearby cultural centre and learnt how to throw boomerang..it was rather hard because there was a strong wind.. and none of us was able to make the boomerang come back...bt it was still a gd experience...haha.. we had to dodge one another's boomerang cos they were like flying everywhere.. haha... at 1230, it was time to leave for melb, back to civilisation... it was indeed a great camp, unlike those i hav been so far.. yup... signing off.... :)