Posted at » 11:18 PM
Thursday, July 20, 2006
I made a lot of friends! And found some old ones too. Cos all the TS (L), TS (O) and EMS scholars go together and mix around in the various OBS watches.
The first morning we spent playing team building games. Then in the afternoon we went kayaking! i went with Sheena. she's really fit, our kayak went like a speedboat =D In the night, we went to something i've never done before, the OBS tunnel. It's a dark tunnel maze thing that is pitch black. the whole watch goes in single file and the door is locked behind the last person. the line of people hold hands and crawl/slide/duckwalk through a network of tunnels that go up, down, expand, shrink, go into rooms and have multiple choices of tunnels that lead to locked doors and dead ends. In TOTAL DARKNESS. no difference whether closing eyes or not. =P we found our way out in the end by staying calm and with good leadership at the ends of the chain =) Go Sheena and Joey!
The second day we climbed the inverted tripod tower in front of OBS! it's about 4 stories high. There was an inner climb and an outer climb, our group could use both. Go Marshall! I went the inner tower with Jene and the outer tower with Davina. Then we set off for out 2 day/1 night outdoor camping trip after lunch! =) We started off by hiking to various checkpoints which would finally end at our campsite in the evening. During the hike, i suspected Jene might have an injury, because her right hand and wrist was numb, and her back was painful. So i helped her carry her haversack. Weiming and Shawn eventually helped Yong Jeng and Charmaine carry their bags too. We reached the campsite at about 6.30pm, where we cooked dinner and set up camp. We then slept til the nexy day 6am.
The third day, we went to build a raft to drift in the quarry! it was really fun cos the instructors told us to attack the other boats like pirates. Luckily no one got hurt. It was really fun and refreshing because it was fresh water. after lunch, we kayaked back to OBS! I kayaked with Jene this time. We went through Pulau Ubin's swamps where the instructors threw mud at us. we also had to carry the kayaks over some land, when we stepped off the kayak, the swampy mud under the water sucked our shoes in until we could hardly walk. After we reached the sea, we kayaked into the sunshine until we reached OBS. It was a great moment. After dinner we went to build a model catapult with items that we had to bid for, using points we had scored during the outdoors journey.
On the fourth day, we competed our catapult with the other teams to see who could launch an egg the furthest. And our team got 2nd! It was really fun. After lunch, we went to do the last thing, which was a trapeze jump. We were supposed to climb to about 3 storeys high, say our commitment statement, then jump to a trapeze hanging about 2 metres from the platform.
After that, we had a debrief and went home =) It was a wonderful experience.