{ Monday, November 23, 2009♥ }
Confirmation 1 camp is the
best camp I've been to ever, even better than P6 grad camp.
You will see why in the next few paragraphs (:
I bet most, or even, ALL of you have never done the things we did in camp before.
Eh-heh I must be crazy writing all these stuff here, but nvm :D
(All the things I tell you in the following paragraphs are my own TRUE experiences during the camp.)
1st Day-21 Nov 2009
It was AWESOME. First Father Terence just randomly grouped us into 6 groups. Frankly speaking, I wasn't too pleased with my group, but then afterwards I realized that I was actually damn blessed to be in that group. Fr Terence said each group was a different tribe from South America, so we called our group !XOBile, which is pronounced as "click with your tongue-Be-Leyy!"
But the facilitators couldnt pronounce our tribe name so they just called us "Sho-Bee-Leyy". Haha.Then we had to design our flag, which we kinda screwed up, and we had to come up with put own tribal language. We called ours the "Fi"language, basically because we just added 'Fi' behind every word we spoke. HAHA. But better than the other groups kay, cos they didnt even come up with their own language.
Then came the cheers, which we kinda ruled, just that if it was like one sentence longer it would have been better. Heh Robert liked to call our cheer the "OOMFI" cheer cos that was the first word in our cheer, which also has to be in tribal language FYI.
Then the exciting part came... WE HAD TO DO FACE-PAINTING FOR OUR OWN GROUP MEMBERS!!!
This was so that we could have a common identity. Oh my ours was dang awesoe. Titus was our masterpiece eh-heh. Oh btw he looked quite cute in face-paint and without glasses (: We had all sorts of colours on our faces (green, blue, red, yellow, white, black), and I have to say we looked pretty cool. One of the groups was sooo plain, only have green for one side of the face and blue for the other side. Ah-hah :D
So we totally rocked on the first day, maybe except for the part when we were the first group to lose our flag? ;-D
2nd Day-22 Nov 2009
THE BEST DAY EVER for me. as in, really. It totally made this year worth living. I truly believe that God blessed me so much on that day. Praise be to the Lord our God, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Sadly, I cant remember what had happened that morning, although I think it's the tribal challenge war or sth LOL.
Now comes the most important part of the camp...
Drum rolls please!!
Fr Terence and the facils actually taught us AMERICAN JIVE!!!
It's a bit different from the RGS-type-of-Jive, cos the one the facils taught us was slow and ballroom dancing-like.
Okay boys had to dance with girls, and I admit that that's the part I like most ;-)
We weren't standing in our tribes then, just in random positions-Girls one line, boys one line. At first Fr Terence said the boys could go pick the girls to dance, and when the boys didn't move, he said the girls could go choose the boys. HAHA. But no one moved again, so Fr Terence juz assigned us in order, like the 1st boy in the line go with the 1st girl in the line.
I was the 4th so I obviously had to go to the 4th boy.
(Actually I would have been contented with the 3rd boy, whom I think is super cute haha, or the 5th boy, sho is quite cool heh.)
But I was also kinda wishing I got ______, and Hey Presto, I got him!
Muahaha I sound like a magician.
You'd be surprised if I told you the reason why.
It's my secret-one that close friends don't even know. (:
So anyway we (or at leat I) were like, damn nervous. Hey it's my first time dancing with a boy how can I not feel nervous?! I wasn't used to dancing the female part cos I danced the male part in RGS; I didn't even know where to put my arm heheh.
We were quiet during the first round, like kind-of totally no conversation haha. Michael and Gabriel (the twins from DLS) made it worse by asking ______ not to be so stiff LOL. Both of us lost track of the counts and we were like dancing differently from the others. And I was like, 'Oh no', and kept trying to keep up with other people. And guess what he told me.
"Never mind, we are dancing correctly." (Or smth like that cos I can't really rmb) and I was like 'What', but I don't think he really cared heh. And I kept on using the wrong leg OUT OF HABIT but he either didnt notice it or didnt want to laugh in my face. =.=
Then when we started to be more focused, it was actually romantic. Trust me, I felt like it was 王子与灰姑娘 aka the prince and Cinderella. Like no one was talking so it was only the music and dancing. (His hands were BIG) But I was go nervous, my hands kept sweating, so after each round of dance we will be like wiping off our sweat on our pants. And as far as I noticed, we were the only pair doing that O.o
Then it was break for us so that the other ppl could have their turn to practice. I was sitting in between ______ and the cute 3rd guy which I mentioned about just now :D *Jealous huh? ;-)*
And then ______ asked me whether I've danced before, and I juz told him I learned the male part before in RGS. It was quite, in fact, VERY, awkward cos I think i only spoke 2 sentences, and then cute guy started smiling and kind-of smacked ______ on the knee. And then both started smiling. I don't know why >.<>accidentally stepped on my toes. Then both of them started cracking up (again) and cute boy went to tickle the boy's ankle. It was quite weird yet humorous :D
And then when it was other people's turn to practice, Fr Terence actually asked us and the 3rd pair (the one with the cute boy who is actually awesome at jive) to dance with them. and i was like 'What?!' plus 'Oh yay!' together heh-heh. That kind of feeling is hard to describe LOL.
By that time I was super duper nervous and shaking/trembling. I don't know why. And guess what. I think he felt it too, because in the middle of the dance he suddenly asked me, "Are you shivering?" So I said yes and we continued. It was damn weird I know, but romantic. Let me emphasize again. ROMANTIC. lol.
Then we had to go back to our tribes and choose the 2 best pairs per tribe for an inter-tribe dance contest. Of course, i got chosen. HAHA. Okay to be more humble, i wasn't that good, but still, I got chosen. LOL. I actually didn't want to dance with Gregory cos he was (too) tall, and well, kind of stone. But the other girl wanted to dance with Michael cos Michael is dang good at jive too, so I had to go with Greg, who is the tribe joker HAHA. We thought we would get kicked out the first round cos we didnt do any spin or fancy things, but surprisingly, we made it into the 2nd round, but Michael and his partner didn't. How ironic.
And then, very very amusingly, we made it into the finals, with another 2 teams. At first we thought the judges were making fun f us, but we just continued lah. The judges said that for the final round we must do smth besides dancing, like spinning or sth fanciful. (I was actually hoping to do a chicken dance HAHA.) but Greg didnt seem to care, so he well, just spinned me? For 2 times some more, and both times I think I spinned in the wrong direction. Until now I'm not sure haha. Btw, it was very, very UNromantic.
And then, when the results came out...
We came in 2nd!!
Lol I thought we would get 3rd cos it was very weird, but the judges said, "Both of you were very compatible and comfortable in terms of your pace." (or smth like that) And I was like wth =.=
It was super embarrassing, but at least we managed to win a lot more points that pulled pur group up (:
(Oh btw the pair who won first was Michael's twin, Gabriel. lol.)
and Fr Terence could dance really well. I didn't know priests could dance!! ;-)
Then at night we had our mass. ANOTHER IMPT PART HERE. Before the opening prayer, Fr Terence asked us to give one another a sign of peace. So like everyone else, I went around hugging my friends and shaking the boys' hands. Than at the end, I saw cute boy walking nearby and hugging one of his friends. Suddenly he just walked up to me and asked me for a hug LOL. I was quite shocked yet amused by his comical expression. He was like trying to see whether I wanted to hug him, so he juz stood in front of me waving his arms in the air. (Okay this isn't very accurate description, but that's the closest I can get.)
But that's not the point. This is the thing I like about Catholics; you love and treat one another as brothers and sisters of Christ. A hug is nothing more than an action to show care and concern to others, not anything else. but the main reason I am happy was because we hardly knew each other. In fact, this camp was the first time we sort-of communicated with each other, Yeah anyway I was quite stunned so I just said "Peace" instead of "Peace be with you." :D
3rd Day-23 Nov 2009
Nothing exciting really happened lah, haha.
Just that we face-painted one of our group members into smth that looked like a sad killer clown, and she had to pretend that she was dead. We also face-painted one another (again) but this time the design was quite simple. Greg was like drawing some Avatar thiggy on my face and arms cos he said the interpreter (me) had to have symbols all over. Which I can't say I really agree with. But nonetheless, it was quite fun :D
In case you are wondering why one of us had to act dead, here is the whole story:
At the beginning of the camp, Fr Terence told us that we were vegetarians, but then we ate meat during the camp. We did 'remedies' on the 2nd day using loads of disgusting things (like water from the toilet bowl and a dead spider. We even put a rose on top as decoration!). Then the tribes had to exchange remedies and apply them on different parts of the body. Ours was not as bad cos we only needed to apply them on our arms, and the remedy was not as awful. (But some tribes had to apply super eeeky remedy on their heads. EEEWWW) However, some ppl were not cured by the remedies, and they died.
Then, we had to do a short play on how the tribe member died. I totally screwed up as an interpreter. UGH.
I liked the part when we were going back to church. Quite cool, if you ask me. Cos I was looking out of the window of my bus when it was turning out of the campsite and then ______ was also doing so on the other bus. Yeah :D Then after that when we reached Saint Anthony's he looked at me while he was unloading stuff from his bus with cute boy. Then later he sat at the table behind me. Then when we were dismissed i saw his mom, whom my mum is friends with. i think his mom was looking at my face in amusement, because of the smudged face-painting LOL.
Yeap that's quite a lot of things for a 3 Days 2 Nights camp.
It TOTALLY r-u-l-e-d.
Thank you Lord for making me so blessed.
This camp kinda changed my perspective on life.
P.S. Xiao Yun: In case you are wondering who _____ is, let me give you a clue: I bet you know him!! ;-D
