Today i just came back from the most tiring camp i ever had. It is a 5 day 4 night camp from 10 to 14 of December, it is to build our leadership skills. This requires strict disipline so the trainers will be strict when needed to be.
When i arrived on day 1, the trainers shouted at us to quickly fall in for uniform inspection and they want us to move quickly as we need to have a sense of urgency at all times. It took quite a while for the inspection to be done. Then we move on to our bunks and change to our T-shirt and shorts, we have to seal the windows with newspaper nicely if not, we have to redo it. After that they wanted to check our bags to see if we brought any prohibited items to the camp, so we have to take every thing out from our bag and standardise our things. After that we had lunch before that we have to tell the massing officer what's the total strengh of our group. At night we had casuaty simulation; that is to make wounds and it was quite fun.
On day 2, we have to wake up at 6am and it was really tiring as we only got 6 hours of sleep. After washing up we have to fall in and take attendance, then we had breakfast. After that we have to change to our SJAB uniform to do foot drills. After foot drills we change back again. After lunch we had briefing for our hike the next day and i am looking forward to it as we will be hiking at Palau Ubin and i've never been there before. We the rest of the day learning compasses and maps as it is essential for hiking.
On day 3, we woke up even earlier at 5.30am because of the hike. we arrive at Palau Ubin at 7am. The reason we arrive so early is because we are going to have a long hike. Our trainer will tell our group the destination and we have to use the map to navigate our way to the place. we didn't have any problem finding the first few locations but then it started to get tougher and tougher. In the afternoon we cooked our own lunch using solid fuels to start the fire. After the lunch we continued hiking until 3pm then we stop hiking and get ready to go back to the campsite. In my opinion, i think the hike end much sooner than i thought though. we we reached the campsite we took a quick shower and had campfire prepertion next.
On day 4, we had another campfire preperation. Before we start our campfire we have to shift the the benches to the parade square around the fire. I really enjoyed the campfire especially the performances.
On the last day, we cleaned our bunks and packed our bags and went back home.
Before the camp i thought i won't be liking it but in the end ithought it was quite fun and i learnt alot from it too.
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