yoz...im back from my first assignment!!!for this post,im gona tag mostly on the camp that i've assigned to help out.generally,its my first time working as a camp instructor whereby the rest of the probably 10 yrs before this,i was always a voluntary camp instructor for my Community Club.No doubt there's culture difference and meeting up of different kinds of ppl driven by monetary benefits.But i really did enjoyed myself for this camp even though i think its abit different from wat i do.i forgot if i actually mentioned this before,the instructor to camper ratio for my CC's camp is actually 1 is to 5 or less but for this camp im working for,its actually 1 is to 22 for my group.which means im the onli instructor taking care of my whole bunch of "monkeys".but im glad i got a good mirror group buddy whose experience enough to help me along since im a newbie there.from the camp,i got to know quite a no of new frenz and they're all damn crappy and nice ppl.but then off course,there will be one or 2 which doesn't give mi a good impression man.

let's start with day 1.

gotta wake up damn early to rush to the primary sch in clementi before 7am so that my pay won't be deducted!!!ended up reaching there early and the camp com was late.we went up to the hall and read out the names of those that's assigned to my group.after which,we took the chartered buses with a specific class to go to jalan bahtera campsite.along the way,i was enjoying myself chatting up with those boys on the bus.did i forgot to mention that they're all P5 students?hahaha...well,from the conversation,i realise that the kids studying in the school should most probably be those coming from a pretty well to do kinda families.or the bare minimal,average income families.can feel that some of them are pretty arrogant and kinda spoilt due to their respective family backgrounds.well upon arriving at the campsite,we split the kids into different groups and there i somehow gotta be independant and follow the flow of the program.for the first day,we gotta do icebreakers and let the kids come up with their own group names and draw up their group flags.the bunch of kids i've got was pretty difficult to handle cos they're all pretty icy in a sense.but still,we managed to squeeze everything in and do things in time.sometimes i really gotta force the kids to take my ideas and seriously speaking the kids ain't that spontaneous as the ones that i have my CC's camp.they were slow in learning cheers and seriously speaking,the leaders of the group ain't that impressive as the ones that i have from my CC's camp.mayb its also the upbringing and the attitude they have for the camp.it most probably because they're forced by the school to go for the camp.after which we had lunch.the camp was different in a sense that their meals are being catered by food caterers in buffet style.first day lunch was a flop cos there wasn't enough for the kids and they had to "ration" it.and since the kids din have enough,it also meant that the instructors dun have enough food to go around too.it was nice that kevin,kf's fren that was my ex cj junior helped mi to save some food for me which i was helping out with the kitchen duties.but its pretty pathetic that i onli had a plate of vegetables which i dun eat at all with one small cube of chicken WITHOUT rice.was damn sian but i knew i've got no choice but to finish it since the activities after lunch is pretty exhausting.well at this point in time,im almost quite sure of the boys' name for my group.after lunch we are suppose to go for abseiling,general station games and kayaking.abseiling was not too bad but they weren't taught the proper way to go down and we din get to do the general stations due to the rain.however,they were pretty lucky the rain stopped in time for them to go kayaking.however the instructor in charge of the kayaking station din wanted to give them to kayak out on their own.they were pretty disappointed until the teacher try to negotiate witht he instructor to let them kayak out for awhile.then they only had a very short water time and they brought the boats back to wash.after which dinner was served and this time there was a slight improvement on the qty lol.but still the kids couldn't have a second helping unlike ours.after which we had our night activity and they kids had lotsa fun.i actually tried to help them along the way by simplifying the stations.they were pretty enthu abt it.afterwhich gotta debrief them then they had supper and slept.after which we had a short instructors debrief as compared to mumbo's.it ended alot faster than i expected.slept at ard 2am plus and got woken up by the kids by 645am though they were suppose to wake up earliest at 7am.the funniest thing is that they were sleeping on huts on the sec storey while some of the instructors were sleeping beneath them.since they were told that they can onli wake up at 7am,there was this boy that was from my hut that needed to pee urgently.knowing that we were sleeping beneath,he actually woke up at 6plus and try to tip toe pass us hoping tat we dun see him and catch him waking up before 7am.after he pass us,he ran immediately to the toilet.it was damn funny.besides that,from beneath,we could hear the kids saying oei..haven 7 o clock yet,dun go down...instructors sleeping downstairs!!!hahahaha...damn funny lahz.

2nd day
2nd day was pretty good.the bonding btw my kids and me were enhanced.we had zipline or challenge pole as well as rock wall to do for today.we also had to prepare the kids for campfire performance.the kids had fun but complained that they weren't able to complete everything.its made worse when the rain came and their confidence rope course was cut.it could be the highlight for them and yet they din managed to do it.instead we went over to do nitro crossing and they had fun though it was abit muddy.then we had campfire.did a major group cheer which last abt 10mins consecutively without stopping.super xiong but it was good...first time doing combo cheers.after which had some small talk session with my group members.aft which they went to sleep.well...there's nothing much abt the camp program anymore but 1 thing which i realli enjoyed was the fact that i had fun with the kids and im glad they too had fun with me ard.in fact,my presence was not onli felt in my group.children from my mirror group also remembered mi.i even had campers asking for my no and email add but i couldn't give it to them.it was the coy's policy.anywayz,there's a couple of campers that i really like cos they're so bubbly and fun.and they really made my day crapping with me having fun and being thankful.they are mostly from my group.(yue ling,a grade 8 pianist erhu instructor @ age 11)(vivan,small cute bubbly and loves to disturb me but she's really very cute and petite)(samathan,rachelle,huigeok,sarah,deirdre etc)(sigmund,markus,bill,zhi heng,si yuan)all this kids from my group are damn nice to me lah and most imptly,they're very obedient.there's also afew from my mirror group that i like having them around.(alexandra whose damn cute and flirty,cassandra whose always quarrelling with bill from my group,jason whose very naughty from the 1st day but as u noe him he just gets better and listens to wat u have to say.)well,when they were up on the bus preparing to go home,i was feeling abit sad liaoz cos they're leaving me and i dunno when im gonna see them again.but the heart warming thing is that when group 1 and 2 were boarding the bus,they were like coming to me and say bye bye kor kor,bye bye instructor unlike the all the groups that left before them.i feel a sense of bonding with the kids even though its just 2 1/2 days.in fact i think im one of the few that the kids came to me and say good bye personally to me.the best thing is i even have campers coming from other group to say bye to me.i felt a sense of achievement i must say.as their bus left,i recalled the times i spent with all my cuties having fun building bonds,resolving quarrels,teaching them valuable lesson,having some small talk sessions with them.i really MISS my campers.as for now,just gotta wait and see if there's any more camps coming up that i can go help out with.well,after the kids left the campsite,it was the instructors turn.we squeeze ard 20ppl into a small van together with our bags to go out to Jurong Point.the ride was super fun.as for the instructors that i've gotta to noe them,i realli enjoyed myself cos they're very nice and outgoing type of ppl.after which i came to this conclusion that i think the fun is wat i expect more from the camp rather than the pay.the pay is just another benefit that i'll get and i enjoy playing with the kids and having fun with instructors too.besides,i actually saw RUTH,the project superstar contestant in real life for the camp.she's actually an old timer instructor too.in fact she looks very very different from wat you see on tv man.i really look forward to going for other camps man.hopefully veron will keep me updated.ahahaha...i look forward to working with the rest of the instructors too.well,i also must thank my buddy instructor whose also my major group A ic plus my mirror group buddy as well as the camp's best instructor!!!he taught me alot of things and i realli enjoyed slacking with him when time permits and doing all those crazy shit together.cheers...

well,after we finished lunch at JP,i took a cab back to CJ to play volleyball with the rest of the guys.super shagged but fun.interacted with them abit more and im gonna support the guys for their match this fri.i've gotta stop here liaoz cos i've got so so so many things to do right now.gotta work on certain thingy liaoz...shall blog more when i have the time.