Session 8: A Singaporean's Proudest Day

okie i really didn't intend to blog today. wanted to spend my time in the rac researching for more ideas and infomation about what we're gonna do once camp ends. but no. i really had to mention what an eventful day yesterday was.

yesterday we celebrated singapore's national day during dinner. i signed up to do the square off. and when i announced it was singapore's birthday, the whole dining hall exploded into crazy cheers. then all the staff decided it that signapore was worthy of the traditinal camp birthday song! so they made me stand on the chair with my huge singapore flag draped over me and everyone sang the song. it would be hte first and only time this summer that both male and female staff actually get together to sing that very song in the middle of the dining hall. in fact it was so scary standing in the middle because i thought the floor would collapse and we'd all fall through the floor when they did the ba-doom part and jumped. so there i was wearing the singapore flag over myself and being serenaded by 50+ staff. it was crazy. honestly, i've never felt prouder to be a singaporean. and then afterthat when everyone had gone back to their seats, i announced that i was presenting the singapore flag as a gift to cco from singapore, and the dining hall broke in raptuous cheers once more. haiz its crazy. this has been probably my most memorable natinoaly day ever.

such irony.

then our all-camp game was a game called WAR. the theme for this week was a scottish and english medieval rivalry, and this being the final session, WAR was actually a game of capture the flag except played over the vast fields that stretched from satanta to camp craft. thats at least 1km by 1km huge! its crazy! and we had the whole camp playing, so the scottish(that was my cabin and alot of others) were lined up along camp craft and we could see across the field the english who were lined up along satanta(they really tried to make it like braveheart). dividing us was pole creek, this really long and wide creek of about 3m wide that you had to get across to charge at your opponent. it was just c-r-a-z-y! so when the flag signalled the charge, all the kids charged like mad towards pole creek for the face off. and it was so hilarious watching kids try to jump the creek but end up falling into it instead, it was all out war!!! just pure madness. i've never seen a game played out at such a gargan-normous scale before.

wow.

ooh brandie just came to the rac and she asked me to go to town with her so will continue on thursday. so sad this is the last week!!!!