Monday, June 21, 2004

Came back from my Legion recruitment camp yesterday... I think I enjoyed myself, even though I had little sleep and there was lots of chaos... There were 100++ participants and they were mostly primary school kids.. We had pre-camp on thursday, had to clean up the place and move the matresses. At least we had a nice long sleep of 8 hours. I had 2 hours of sleep on Saturday, and 3 hours of sleep. The reason we slept so late was because the campers were giving a lot of problems and we also had to conduct debriefing and meeting. The kids were very noisy and the older ones were not setting good examples. On Friday night, the young punks go and bathe without our permission. By the time they ended, it was already 1 am!! Then the next morning they also go and bathe again... Robin was so pissed off that he called for a scolding session! Then these kids have lots of diseases... Dunno what ADHD, asthma, eczema, heart problem...wah lan eh... Then also got lots of problem kids... This clique of girls who come to the camp to look for boyfriend....A couple of cannot make it act gangster ah bengs... Most of the kids never talk to the opposite sex before... What to expect? All come from single sex schools... And most of them were probably coming for the wrong reasons...Some parents force them to come when they did not want to.. Some see friends come then also come...But you can't blame them for this. Children basically 'Monkey see, Monkey do.' Anyway, there was this little girl with eczema, in the middle of the night start crying loudly. And the problem was that she had no more medicine!! Pet and Robin had to coax her to sleep and stop herfrom scratching herself...In anycase, the camp ended on Sunday at 9.30 am for the campers. For us facilitators, not yet!! We had to keep the mattresses and clean up the place, followed by another long meeting. When we left the place, Eugene, Selene, Matthew and I were pushing the shopping cart we had borrowed from shop and save... lol we were planning on abandoning it but the conscience got the better of us... so we pushed it all the way back to the shop before going to meet my parents to take us all home...That's it.

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