been thinking about the marymount camp a lot, had to get it out somewhere. i don't know what is it about the camp that i'm so hung up about. at once one of my best and one of my worst camps.
maybe because it's an rm camp. still having stress-moments whenever i think about the tks camp. fuck, was nightmare. not going to forget anytime soon. everything from the bus ride to the urban challenge to the stupid fuckers who kept making trouble.
anyways, marymount. girls primary school... was expecting an easy camp, cos, well, girls primary school... in many ways, yes, it was the easiest i've ever had it, in terms of kids, and the teachers were really cool, and idham and weining were great cc/2ic.
it's the many screw ups that accumulates stress, and what's worse is that someone is always there to cover for me, and they don't come and scold me for it. will feel much better if i get yelled at or something. because it's like, my seventh or eighth camp already, and i still made so many simple mistakes. --> late to mass dinner after sand castle, letting kids use bowling toilet for sandcastle and dirtied up floor and had no time to apologise to janitor, didn't carry my own toy pieces after sandcastle though we were told to (cleanly forgotten), other groups had to wash and fetch mine cos was busy washing kids cos thought only my group was wet, letting kids go brush teeth on their own after supper and dragged v long, michelle had to chase them. then somehow got saddled with ismail's kid and went all the way out to the pier to comfort her, to my horror. did not inform kai, though on hindsight the situation should have permitted use of handphone. buddy was all alone for tent-pitching, and he was so pissed and i was so so so so so sorry. supper clean up wasn't done properly cos i was rushing to get them to sleep and those pampered kids don't know how to clean up anyways. was planning to come back on own to clear basins, but hui yun helped me... then forgot all about lunch duty the next day, not only that, also came in late after compass hunt, michelle helped again. told kids to go sit down at table while i do the washing point and they ran to kai, and i am so so so sorry again ;_;
was so stressed on first night, but went to cool down at lighthouse.
kids were strange this time round. felt more like sec 1 kids than p5. kept asking me who i had a crush on, from day 1 icebreaking to last day queuing up for bus. like, huh? pri 5 sia... and they had this issue with tap water that's so irritating and kept refusing to fill their bottles. blah. not the enthu and sweet kind of girls like ai tong was, but more mature and a little cliquish, with clearly defined leaders and followers. in the end won most enthu group and again, like, huh? trainer was how peh lah... kids were chatty and good when raraing them against other groups like kai's and adrian's. otherwise in games cooperative but not enthu.
someone told me they won cos of compass hunt. again, huh huh huh? another screw up of mine, didn't know what was going on, the clues were so unclear and i totally blur. in the end had to redesign the whole game, esp cos the dinosaurs were like, not there by the time we did our hunt. asked them to draw pictures of the place instead, and played hot and cold game instead of using compass. *dies*
was upset about rock wall. only cleared like, 5 kids. pissed off. kids all wanted to climb so much! first time! they were all cheering for their friends all the way sia... didn't know what went wrong. was i too slow in security check? anyways efi was late, lucky idham took over. idham was brilliant (for someone who fell out of a tree hee), felt he was really involved. like this is the first time the kids all know who the cc and 2ic are.
felt camp ended well though. trainers really worked together well on last day. even though there's rain, even though there's shortage of manpower, even though matrix was totally screwed up, we still did everything very very smoothly, better than expected. tents were all folded up nicely with poles, they weren't wet, kids weren't wet, area cleaning for carpark done, everything nice. one thing that made all the difference: we weren't the most fun, we weren't the coolest, but we were willing to work hard. well, most of us.
yups. learned so much. much love to kai and michelle and all the other trainers.
