Day 1:
We assembled at the jetty at around 8pm and set off on a ferry to the island. It only took a few minutes to reach there, so you can image that it wasn’t very far from the mainland Singapore. When we arrived at Pulau Ubin, we board a van which could accommodate 12 of us excluding the driver. It than took us to Aunty Siew Eng house, which is one of the rare houses down the dark and bumpy road. There were 3 dogs and few cats in the house. Aunty was smiling widely and welcoming us. We than went to the “Tree House” to put our belongings. The “Tree House” was all made of wood and the walls had some ants’ hive with no ants. The
toilet below the “Tree House” really stinks as there’s no proper sewage. After putting down our bags at the “Tree House”, we assembled back at the “hall” for some briefing. We than had some ice-breakers to get to know each and everyone in our group. My group has 10 people including Steven, my GL cum cluster head, Chai Yun, Nicholas, Melvin, Kenneth, Galvin, Winston, Sebastian, Wai Mun, my group mates and me. After ice-breaking, we had to write our life journey on a quarter piece of a mahjong paper. Kenny came to share his life journey with us too. It was a time to get to know each other better and understand what each group members had been through before. After that, we had ice-cream bread for supper as a cluster and had our first lights out at 1.30am after washing up.Day 2:
Rise and shine @ 9am for our breakfast. My cluster had cereals of 4 different flavours. It was tasty but not filling. I think it will taste even nicer if the milk was cold. Kekex. After our breakfast, we assembled at the “hall” and had a personality test,
“Singsapiration” and played “Lau Ying Zhua Xiao Ji” direct translated to be Eagle catch chick. The aim is to have the longest line. I think the objective of the game is to warm us up for the up coming game, “PHOTO HUNT”. In the game of “photo hunt”, we were given a photo of the place we have to go and complete a task. My group’s first challenge was to hold a hula hoop with only one finger of each member to the height that our GL wants. We took about 5 min to finish the task I guess and proceed to our next station. Our next challenge was to cross over a few obstacles and reach the finishing line with our legs tied together at a given time. We only completed this challenge at our second attempt. Our third challenge was the traffic jam where we were split into 2 groups and each group had to cross over to the other side without talking and any hand signals. We took quite a long time at that station. Besides that, we also had to memorise the ‘BB Vesper’ and sing it out. Our next challenge was the “chocolate river” where we need to lay the “marsh mellows” (newspaper) on the “chocolate river” (ground) and cross over to the finishing line. We need to hold on to the “marsh mellow” while we cross the “river”. It was quite an easy task so we didn’t take a long time to complete it. After that, I was blind folded and had to complete the next challenge which was the “100 seconds no NG” with my group mates. My job was to memorise and recite 2 lines as I couldn’t do any other things. After that, Kenneth was blind folded instead of me as Steven forgot that he was suppose to blind fold a male and not a female. 
Our next challenge was the mine sweeper. Everyone of us had to over to the other end without stepping on the mines. It was also another easy task for us and thus we complete it and headed back to aunty Siew Eng house, which was the finishing point. My group came in 2nd for this game. Through this game, we became slightly more bonded and we realized that every member’s participation is very important in order to have fun and complete the game. If each individual is very strong but they can’t work together, the team will still fail to complete the challenge as there’s no team work in the group. After the photo hunt, we had a sharing session and our dinner. We had rice, chicken curry, hot dogs and luncheon meat prepared by vimel’s group. After dinner, we had a GALA Night where every group had to perform a skit on a given tag line. Our group had to perform on a tag line “umbrella”. The camp committee also participated in the GALA Night with the game called “Deal or No Deal”. It was a fun and enjoyable night. Thereafter, everyone washed up and some of us continued to play and chat until 4am as we were allowed to stay up late till 4am.Day 3:
We had our breakfast at 8am till 9am before we had another sharing session with Kenny. His speech was really long. He kept on saying ‘5 more min’ and ‘last but not least’. He also showed us a video on one of the Cambodia Trips. It was very touching to see all the Cambodian kids smiling happily. I guess it was really a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience for those Primers who went there. After Kenny’s speech, we took a few more photos and boarded the van to the jetty where we than took a few RIO’07 photos and headed back to Singapore in the ferries. I really had fun in this camp and enjoyed being with my group mates.
With Love,
Stephanie Ng
Cluster C, Sanguine
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