Just came back from my Church Youth Camp a couple of days ago. Just thought I'd share my experience :) Yeah, I know. Its super long :O lol
Day 1
Let's start with my church Youth Camp. Tbh, I wasn't too enthusiastic to go. Sitting in the bus, I had doubts. I starting thinking whether will I be left out in the group and the activities? Will everyone will hate me?? I dunno why, but yea. :x I felt even worse when they put me as leader of a group, team Bronto, whom I knew no one. ME?? Leader??? Whatislife. It didn't just end there, I was placed in a room where I knew noone again. Sighs.. At that moment, I was thinking to myself 'Lord, let the days past quicker plz' :/
First activity of the day. Started of terrible again -_- We had to design our own flag, make our own wristband and come up with a team slogan. It was.... Let's just say we managed to finish it on the last second :O Surprisingly though, WE GOT FIRST IN THE TEAM SLOGAN AND FLAG DESIGNING!! WOOHOO!! :D What sorcery is this?? haha.Oh, and we now had to take care of our flags during all group activites. I scored the first flag steal of the camp lol. It's kind of funny yet kind of cheating when I think back of it. I offered to help fold the other team flag, which they unknowingly agreed. Once they gave it to me, I ran of with it and won our team 10 points! Felt bad after that though :/
The treasure hunt was... meh. Got last :/ But I thought it was okay cuz my team tried their best and thats what matters. :) The rest of the day was perfection <3 Fun at the pool and beach futsal was awesome. Free time was awesome. hehe I attempted to steal the other team flags again >:D But this time, everyone was extra careful when I'm around. So epic fail haha. Dinner was delicious. Praise and Worship was amazing!! I could feel God's presence there. Felt so blessed :') And the theme talks was really informative! Man, I learn so much at that night. That really strengthen my faith as a Christian :)
Next was vesper. This was my first real test as a leader, cuz I had to guide through the discussion. I have to say, it went absolutely great! Well.... better then I expected anyways. :D Super thankful Agnes, my assistant was there. If not, i stress lol. Managed to had a nice discussion with them. After that, we had half an hour free time before it was time for lights out. Hahaha my awesome roommates, after lights out, we all stayed awake and play :P We all told stories about life and guy stuff. haha, and turns out all the other rooms were doing the same thing. Luckily our room not so siao, so we all went to sleep at around 1230. The other rooms stayed awake til 2! Siao man lol.
Oh, and the team standings were out. Our team, managed a 3rd. Not bad :) Tops were first, followed by Stego. Tops arh, so imba. They were like 25 points ahead of us. Not to mention teacher gave them extra points cuz they had teamwork. -_- haha I remember a couple of our groups were discussing tactics to steal their flag :P Plan failed though haha.
Day 2
Next morning, our room woke up at 4. Crazy tired. Why so early? Well apparently my roommates definition of whispering is talking loudly til everyone wakes up -_- Got up, went to seaside awhile, get ready, and waited for morning devotion. Morning devotion. Then we headed for breakfast followed by morning's PnW. God presence, strong as ever :) Next was Theme Talks again. And Im not jking when I say these talks are awesome man! Did you know dinosaurs are just a few thousand years old and not 65 million years old as predicted by scientist?? :P Haha, don't believe me?? It's kinda long, lazy type. Look for me if you don't believe. ;) The truth aint always black and white. hehe. So yeah, theme talks was til 12, and we had lunch right after followed by free time again. Free time was cut short though, cuz the advisor wanted to meet all the group and room leaders to see how we're doing. And we were all busted for staying way past our curfew hahaha.
After that, we had beach games. First activity, capture the flag or fortress or whatever it was, was.. honestly, frustrating. Everyone was feeling that. It was under the blazing hot sun some more. T.T My teammates... oh my ever too eager teammates. They were really excited for the game. So excited, that some of the didn't listen to instructions :/ No surprise we lose our flag within 20 seconds. -_- But you can't exactly blame them. They were really thrilled and when your in that mood, it makes you.... you know la. haha. Plus I was leader so I bear the responsibility of my team. Nether less, the tide was coming in really fast and the game was kinda hectic... So it was canceled :x
The next game was capture the ball. Its like capturing the ball and putting it in the bucket. It was determined to win this game after our previous game failure. Me and my teammate, Jeremy, represented out team for the first round. I wasn't that fast of a runner so I relied on someone else getting the ball, and dropping it. Which actually happened! haha I managed to get the ball and ran towards the bucket. Jeremy providing cover for me. But well.. things didn't exactly work out as plan haha. Guys from other groups were surrounding me, equally determine to stop me. Uhhh... and then.. things.. Well.. my specs fell. And I was afraid it will get swept away by the current or people were gonna step on it so I told everyone to stop first. While everyone backed away, I quickly put the ball in the bucket. I felt guilty after that because everyone thought I was injured, so thats why they back off :O But I was happy though that atleast we won 10 points for our team. The next few rounds we didn't win. But it's okay, it was a tough game. Had to me physically tough. Tops managed to win it twice. -_- How they keep winning I will never know.
After that, we played football. uuhh sort of. We all had to make a circle and teamwork to kick the ball into the goal. This game.. was kinda hectic too. People weren't exactly listening to orders and some of them were playing really rough. A person whom shall not be named stepped on my toe and got it really swollen =.= Whatisthis. Thinking back, I'm proud of my team though, we managed to communicate and worked together as a team. haha. Too bad, in the end, because some groups were lacking people and there were injuries, the game was canceled too. :/ In the end, we played volleyball. We were all new at this and we lost the first round haha. Nuff said :x Not gonna lie, the games didn't went exactly as plan, but I want to say a BIG thank you to Amanda and Samantha for planning the games! They put in alot of effort into it and it's just too bad it didn't work out.
Fun in the pool and free time was same as usual. But felt really drained after that. Fell asleep half of the free time. Then, it was time for dinner. Haha that night dinner was really fun. When I first came to the table ( i was almost late o.o), I didnt realize anything wrong. After we all say grace, Jeremy talked to Amanda. She was sitting beside me that time, and I realize she looked... kind of sad. She was feeling bad because of what happen that afternoon. She thought it was her fault :O which of course wasn't. Our group decided to be extra nice to her. We made a rule that Amanda is not allow to serve herself and every time a dish is served, she has to eat it first. haha it was a fun moment. Makes me smile thinking about it. :) Too bad she had to leave early to get ready for praise and worship. :( Before she left, we all gave her a toast and cheered for her. :P That wasn't the only thing that happened. Another great thing happened, but I rather keep that a secret haha. ;)
Campfire was next. Best event of the camp... while it lasted haha. Around 8 something, it started to rain. WHATISTHIS. And we were just about to have marshmallows and sing the Campfire Song song! D: meh. But it was fun while it lasted. Did a short PnW. Then we sat around the campfire and we took turns sharing our experience and what we want to say about the camp. What a warm and wonderful way to spend the night! The rain, oh the rain. Why you do this to us?? We continued the fun in the lobby. We sang a couple more songs are ate marshmallows. Other guest were probably thinking that we're crazy or something, singing so loud and eating marshmallows while it was pouring heavily. hahaha. Half an hour later, we were running out of marshmallows and songs to sing. So the advisers suggested we have our vespers earlier and have more free time. Of course, nobody disagreed haha. That night, after vesper and all that, some of the Youth people played Truth or Dare... or Kiss hahaha. It was so funny! The dares they ask you do, really siao haha. I didn't join though, was emo-ing at that time. But yeah, not going to explain it. Because yesterday we all broke our curfew, the advisers, who initially plan to cancel curfew for the night, gave us a curfew at 12. Nobody disagreed though. Everyone was really tired and beat. :O I was no exception. My bed felt extra comfy that night. Slept like a log :)
Day 3
Argh, the final day. Time seems to passs so fast :/ Luckily this time nobody woke us up at 4 again haha. So managed to sleep til 5+ Still woke up feeling tired though o.o You could feel the 'oh no! camp's gonna end!' feeling among the guys during breakfast after morning devotion. After that was our last theme talk from uncle Joseph. It ended at around 1045, with each of us promising to spread what we learn to atleast 1 friend. After that, me and my friend, Entonio so siao. We went to the beach and walked aaallll the way to the water. (it was low tide that time) Camp rules were that we couldn't go to the beach, so if we get caught, we are busted. Big time. Another of my friend, Martin, join us as well. So us, us three musketeers or three idiots. haha. We went back at around 1015, and we were just in time to make it back. Just as we were reaching the beach, an adviser came and told us we were late. PHEW. MADE IT JUST IN TIME. HEHE. It was awards ceremony time! No surprise, Tops won. BY A MARGIN OF LIKE 60 POINTS! WHAT? Stego got second and we got third. 5 marks difference! so close! T.T They gave out other awards too like best camper, nicest person, most sporting and etc.
After that, we had 10 minutes to pack our stuff and make sure we left nothing behind. Then we had lunch. It was... a sad moment. Within hours camp was going to end. :( The thought of it makes me feeling sad. We had 1 more mini-event before the camp was over. When we first came to camp, we had to pick a number. And whoever that person's number is, we had to be their 'angel'. In other words, we had to be extra nice and make that person feel welcome and all that. There was alot of complications with my mortal :/ Well say it here, but in the end, didn't do anything for my mortal and that got me feeling super guilty again! I apologized to her and tried to make it up to her by buying ice-cream. She said it was okay, but I still felt bad. :O So, half an hour later, we were on our way back to church.
I got to say, camp was a real blessing in disguise. I learned so much there. Not to mention I made tons of new friends. Eventhough I came to camp hoping it will end soon, I now which it lasted longer. It's things like these that you will never trade for anything in the world :)
A couple of pics :)
Group 3, team Bronto or blue team. Either way, I love you guys. Wouldn't change any of you for anyone :) It's not the group that's special, its you guys that make it special <3
Mah Youth Peeps!! Spot me if you can haha :P
Okay, im so fail blogger haha. Blogs are suppose to be short and simple, but mine is super siao long. And so less pics. o.o Its becoming more like a diary for me haha. Meh still learning the traits of a blog. :x haha, gonna get better at it! >:D I hope. o.o
