.Friday, April 10, 2009 ' 7:34 PM Y
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Camp ended like on the 3rd of April and I'm only posting about camp now because I have nothing else to blog about... Camp SPQR rocked!!!!!!!! We were like Roman Senates and on our camp packing list we had a "letter" from Caesar. This is how the letter goes,
Dear Loyal Citizen of Rome,
CONSCRIPTION INT THE ROMAN ARMY The Senate is raising 7 new legions in Rome's Latest campaign to subdue the southern rebels. The Emperor Caesar has need of your service and Rome had need of your youth.Under the law governing you Roman Citizenship, you are to enlist and report for SOTA CAMP SPQR Legionnaires Camp on Tuesday 31st March 2009 at 0800 hrs.Your period of service will e until Friday 3rd April 2009 by 1300 hrs.Included with this enlistment letter is a list of items you have to prepare to attend the camp.By Order of The Senate,Hail Caesar!Day 1 Report to school at the same time. Camp opening by Miss Wang. Then we had sporks provided by the school(spoons and fork on one utencil) and BREAKFAST! After breakfast, we went to the field to pitch tent, where we will be sleeping for 2 nights. After pitching tents, we had foot drill where we have to sit cross legged with our hands on our knees and not moving for 10 minutes. It's not as easy as it sounds.......... Then a one hour lunch. After 1 hour of delicious lunch, r1 and r2 shared the courtyard to create our own group (alpha, sigma, omega) flag and cheer. Then, we had to create a class cheer! We had to present our flags in the hall afterwards. After presentation, we had knots and lashings then dinner.... woo-hoo! We had night walk after dinner. It was fun! We were blind-folded by trash bags and had to walk all around the school. We had a talk about The Rise and Fall or the Romans, then we had a briefing about the next day's hike to Kallang Basin for Dragon Boating. Then supper:) Bathe:) And Lights out!!! Apparently, we only had 1 hour of sleep thanks to the guys who played basketball at 3am in the morning!!!!!!!!Day 2Morning washup, breakfast, Campfire performance preparation, gather at the hall, then hike to Kallang Basin. The hike was 3 km long!!! Then we had Dragon Boating. We had a water war!!! Whenever another boat passes by our boat, we will splash water at them. Then, we had a Dragon Boating race! Guess what?! Yes!!!! R2 won!!!!!!! woo-hoo!!! We rock! AFter dragon boating, had a hike back to school whch seems shorter than before. After the hike back, we had camp cooking, which is our dinner. We had supper, washup and lights out. Thank goodness the guys had punishment, and that night was so peaceful.Day 3Morning washup, breakfast, class mentor time with Ms Wang, we had team intiative games!!! Our class finished the earliest. Then we had shield drill, lunch , then Sword drill and finally foot drill. Dinner! Campfire performance!!! R2 rocked the stage! Washup and we slept in the hall! With air-con!!!!!! YAY!!!!!! Ohh and btw, foot drill was tiring... and little scary with all the insturctors being very hard on us...Day 4Morning washup, breakfast, gather at the amphitheatre after breakfast for a briefing about building a rope bridge. We took two hours to build a rope bridge, after that we had class mentor time, then area cleaning, where r2 had to clean bird shits off the boy's tent. then we had the passing out ceremony where miss koh, the overall teacher in-charge of the camp, gave us test tubes filled with salt of SOTA colours! Then we got our valuables back and is HOME SWEET HOME!!!!!I still miss camp.... It's soooooooooooooooooooo fun..... We took group photos but I'm using another com so can't post it up right now:) Camp, R2, R2 Omega, SOTA rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Valerine:):):)
