Camp Shout Part 1

no more detailed camp accounts like for the past few ones. they somehow get started but never get done. i shall get this done in 1 or 2 posts.

starting on dec 12, on the last week n my school term. what a bad timing. bringin it forward just 1 week would allow me to go for the whole camp. i went to school in the morning and only managed to join the rest in sentosa at about 1. my group was the mayans.. not sure why all the camp groups were named after ancient civilisations. missed the icebreakers and my group was delayed in set off cos they were waiting for me.

well i might as well have missed it then. we had to go to checkpoints around sentosa to find our next clue. it might have been fun if there wasnt the risk of wasting lots of time and energy. the checkpoints were such that we just went back n forth along the beaches like some repetitive patroling session. got us all tired and bored. plus the clues were confusing. thank goodness my group was really small so we were less likely to get slowed down by any slow ones in the team. at the last part we had to solve 5 riddles. but nevertheless, we didnt do very well either.

halfway through the game my classmates called me to settle some project mess that i left behind for them. presentation the next day, and still some tweaking to be done. the situation got complicated cos i wouldnt be going home so i have no access to my laptop. so they were saying like "wah thanks lah. u go sentosa to party then we have to edit for u. u dun wan to prepare nvm.. tmr u better know what to say. go enjoy ur ****ing holiday la." but obviously after they told me abt the situation i couldnt really enjoy myself anymore...

when we returned to church i went to get my mortal. but i accidentally drew 2 names and realised too late, so i had 2 mortals. and so happens one was my brother, the other my camp group leader. bath time is letter writing time for me. i wrote my first note to my group leader.

after dinner we had the 1st camp sermon, then group discussion. only now did the campers get their copy of the camp booklet. the next activity scheduled was the night games alr, which ends too late so i decided to go home and prepare for tmr's presentation. and at the same time get to bathe in my nice bathroom and sleep in my comfortable bed.

i came back to church the nextday at 11+. lunch was scheduled at 11.30, so i planned to go thr, eat lunch, then return to school at 12 for 3 lectures. but it turned out the 2nd sermon lasted so long tat we only ate lunch at ard 12.30. i figured its not worth going back to school for just 1+ hours of lectures and miss the afternoon games for that. it was the first time i deliberately pon lectures.

i found a angels note in my sock. i immediately expected my angel to be an elder guy.
it had bad handwriting, and said that i would get a surprise after the movie that night. judging from the handwriting i really thought it was left handed. but i guess i was wrong.

the afternoon game was at changi airport. we were given lots of question to answer by finding the specific places around the airport where the ans can be found, eg the price of some item sold at a shop in the airport. plus there were pictures to take, eg with a pilot, and items to obtain, eg a harry's bar napkin. that was the 1 thing that i felt screwed up the gameplay. it was worth 150 points. thats so much that any team who got it would have no problem beating another team that doesnt. and the way of getting it is not through skill, but more of luck. it was very hard to obtain, but not because its a very hard to find place, but cos its not even accessible to us. so we had to somehow find someone who has access and persuade them to help us get the napkin. which of course is a 1 in a thousand chance. then the aztecs were very lucky to remember that elza was so happens flying off at that time, so they called her to get some napkins for them. and they utilised their advantage by trading their access napkins with the other 2 americans in exchange with all our brochures and napkins. that harry's bar thing shouldnt have been put in. the mayans managed to achieve the most varoety of zo cards and straws. but still, 8th position. well at least not last.

during bath time aka angel-mortal time, i found a cadbury boost in my sock. and that was supposedly the surprise. came too early, and didnt surprise me. but just that gift alone made him more generous than many other angels who gave just a few sweets, notes or none.

this time i could say over at church before going to school the next day. schools at 10.. got some time to spare before sleep. so i could stay for the whole evening's events. after dinner theres the 3rd sermon and then some movie time. it wasnt really a movie, just a short documentary on the persecutions of christians in some asian countries and how the christians live with it.

before the movie i went to the main toilets and found a group of ppl, both guys and girls, gathered inside the male toilet. some in army uniform. they were very surprised and i just went away. then adrian came up to whisper to me, "whatever u saw just now keep it to urself ok.." so i was mentally prepared for the underground church game that started quite abruptly after the movie. at least this time there was a short game briefing, unlike the previous time i played it in pri6 which left us confused. but the starting was nice. junxu said lets pray... then suddenly the red guards ran in and started shouting at us to get out. a nice shocker to give us a jump start.

the christian role is the most boring role in the game. i spend the first 15 minutes just walking around the church in countless rounds waiting for some pastor to reveal himself to me. but apparently all of them were too scared of informers. my first service attended was busted before it actualy began, and later i only managed to attend 1 fully. the game ended just when i was being caught in another service. yay no tortures.