ANNUAL CAMP 2K15

yo peepsss! its De-On Button (this nickname was by duckaicat, dont ask me how she came up with it)

this shall be a reflection on the squad blog + individual reflection to be handed up to sec 3 Ma'ams. :p

my phone could not write this blog entry sooo i had to use my computer -.-

as y'all can see, this shall be abt ARTEMIS'S FIRST CAMP TOGETHEERR !!! (and what some of us did on the day before camp huehuehue)

so, on the day before camp, alyssa, sukainah, bee kim and i stayed back in school after AC Prep to do labelling and polishing of boots together in the canteen. we were panicking like mad and alyssa and bee kim were so pissed that their boots could not shine no matter how much they polish, until i taught them a faster and more effective way :p after staying in school until like... 3, alyssa and i went to sukainah house to continue labelling and iron and sew. at sukainah house, we had alot of questions and we called Ma'am and Ma'am did not pick up, so when Ma'am called back, alyssa and i freaked out and we were tried to silently scream at each other for the paper but i think Ma'am heard... oopss! okay after that we continued with AC stuff and at 6+, alyssa and i left sukainah house to go homeee. at 8+, we started skyping each other (alyssa, sukainah, bee kim and i) while packing our stuff and cutting twine (we needed 3 balls of twine omy) when we had finished skyping, it was already 12+, close to 1 (sorry Ma'ams)

so, on Artemis's first day of camp, i came early (because im kiasu) but i think i came too early... anyways, Artemis slowly streamed in and by 8+, most of our squadmates have arrived! some of us were not prepared and alot of last minute things surfaced. for example, some of our squadmates did not label and some did not bring the coke bottle. one of them did not know that hangers and pegs were needed, put ITS OKAY! because, luckily, with the help of everyone in Artemis, we managed to settle everything by 9:45am! we fell in at 10 (on time!) we had muster parade during the start of the camp so we had to change into our full uniform and Artemis got our name badges! it was our (Artemis and Hestia Ma'ams) first time changing into full uniform so we were all very excited! after muster parade i could not really remember what happened, but we had to change into our full uniform after our lunch for our campcraft theory test! it was so scary. after our Hestia Ma'ams and Astraia Ma'ams left, Ma'am Yolanda brought us to the toilet to teach us how to wear our uniform properly so that it is presentable. after teaching us, we were supposed to have campcraft practical test but it was raining, so as our Hestia Ma'ams and Astraia Ma'ams left to do PYA, Artemis went to the AVT to write "letters" to all our squadmates. after that, we were told to change into our full uniform, but we took 13 minutes! so we were told to change back into our pt kit. this happened continuously as we changed from full uniform to pt and back to full uniform and i have a feeling this was changing parade. to be honest, everybody might think that i am insane or sadistic, but changing parade is really fun, especially when Artemis went from 13 minutes to 5 min 15 sec !!! i was so happy i wanted to jump around waving my hands in the air! (dont judge) i feel that changing parade is really effective in helping us improve our timings! after dinner, we had... CRIME NIGHTTT ! we were supposed to find out how Baby Chucky died. Our Astraia Ma'ams did a really good job in planing this crime night as i thoroughly enjoyed myself (im sure all the campers did too!!!) apparently, Baby Chucky died from milk contamination. poor poor Baby Chucky. we had CIs Time after crime night and CIs let us watch Mulan 1 until 11:30pm and we were supposed to write a 2 page reflection on the movie according to the questions that CIs gave. at 11:45pm, it was lights out!

so on day 2, i woke up at 5 due to movement in the room (idk how i cant wake up to my alarm but i can wake up when i hear movement...) lots of campers were awake. as it was not 5:45am yet, we decided to write our reflections so that during breakfast there would not be a rush. in the morning, we had pt! whew it was tiring, but it was beneficial ! not all of us did our 5BX properly so we had to keep repeating and not alot of us took the initiative to time the 5BX. we had bread and milo for camp breakfast (the milo was fab) and after that i could not really remember what happened but we had initiative games where we played tug of war and "soccer". my group (group 4) won group 2 and we had to versus group 3 but sadly we lost :( but, in soccer, group 4 won group 3! yay! we had blockbuster, which was set up by CIs. Blockbuster was really fun, as Artemis, Hestia Ma'ams and Astraia Ma'ams got the chance to bond together through games! after blockbuster, we began preparing for the best part of the camp: THE CAMPFIREEE! we were really enthu and the camp was so fun even though it was in the hall. the story line by Astraia Ma'ams was really nice!!! my group (group 4) and group 2 did the dance while group 1 and group 3 did skits. i had alot of fun when dancing and i would like to thank Zephyr Ma'ams for cheering for us even though our dance was not really good. they gave us motivation which all of us are thankful for! :) and OMG. ASTRAIA MA'AMS DANCE. I CANNOT. IT. IS. SO. AMAZING. THEY ARE LEGIT DANCING GOALS. if only we could dance as well as Astraia Ma'ams! but its okay, i think we all put in our effort to make the dance as nice as possible! group 1 and group 3 skits were really funny, bringing more light and humour to the campfire! that night after campfire, we had fire drill. omg it was so. bad. i really just want to do fire drill all over again. Ma'am and CIs came into our room and blew the whistle for 5 minutes and NOBODY woke up. we took 17 minutes to assemble at the FLEC and that does not count the time we took the find the casualties. Ma'ams told us to write a 2 page reflection on the fire drill and hand in up to them after breakfast and they told us to go back to sleep. the fire drill was so bad. next year, Artemis will teach the sec 1s what to expect during a fire drill and our experiences, so as not to have the same situation repeated again.

finally, on day 3, we had RT in the morning! we played captain's ball for RT and it was a tie after 7 minutes of playing! after RT we had breakfast (bread and milo) and we changed into our VCA tees (which stank so badly due to the first day sweat and it was kept in a ziplock bag) for a water game! Ma'ams were really creative, using the tingy which is used to keep the water in to pour everything out on their opponents. group 3 won this water game. after the water game, we had pails of extra water left and the first pail which was full of water went on me aahhahah Gin Wen also suffered a pail full of water huehuehue. after that we had debrief and prize presentation! group 2 won the most bonded group, group 3 won the best group and Ma'am Xin Yi won the best camper. woohoo good job to everybody!!! :D

we had to change to full uniform for closing parade (is this what its called?) and after that we went homeeee

to be honest, i thought that camp would be tiring and no fun at all, but i was proved wrong. i had LOTS of fun and im looking forward to ATC and AC next year! im kinda missing camp now :(

proud/fun facts:
1) WE IMPROVED FROM 13 MIN TO 5 MIN FOR CHANGING WOOHOOOO
2) CAMPFIRE WAS FAB
3) alot of us are having PCT (post camp trauma) for example, when im slow in whatever i do and my mum asks me to hurry up, the first thing i say is "Yes Ma'am, Sorry, Ma'am." (this is just my example, Artemis has their own examples too ahahah)
4) sleeping in between Ma'ams was quite awkward, especially if you turn and you see a Ma'am's sleeping face staring back at you aahhahahah
5) last but not least, CAMP IS FUN !!! :D

wowowowow this is loooongggg ahahahh

HAVE A GOOD HOLIDAY ARTEMIS AND WHEN WE COME BACK NEXT YEAR, WE'LL BE A BETTER SQUAD !! :)

~ De-On Button :)