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Confirmation Camp 2008

Tuesday, 17 June 2008 ;

11:47:00

WOAHMYGOSH IT WAS SO GOOD. I miss it like there's no tomorrow. and it doesn't help that school's starting on thurs and I haven't exactly done, like, what, anything?

day 1. went there early cos we wanted to play cards but we ended up not doing so anw. yeah anw, got cards and phone past bag check, no body check, no sleeping bag check haha. but ended up not using the cards at all anw. ok so briefing and all, the usual game where they give out random nametags and you've to give the person whose nametag you have and then get into grps, cos they're too lazy to give out nametags themselves haha. like 80smth ppl anw. and I couldn't find my nametag! when everyone else was in their grps alrd I was wandering arnd asking facils and games comm ppl. ok then I finally got to my grp and the facils were damn sad that we were so quiet haha.

yeah anw this year the games were SO MUCH better. icebreakers were cool. like the all on a sheet (which got cut down to all girls on a sheet) and flip the sheet. and the caterpillar one where we all have to hold hands and jump to numbered squares. and foot srabble (like chicktionary) where we have letters on our feet, and we cheated cos darrell asked someone for the bonus word haha. and the grab a lemon from a pole with your mouth thing. um then I can't really rmb what was next. some session I think. I'll prob skip blogging abt all the sessions.

um I think there were games. like the blindfolded watermelon feeding one where darrell ate most of the watermelon and most of the rest was on the floor haha. and the use a knife in your mouth to scrape toothpaste from a balloon one. we were first! those were at grotto. then some lao ying zhuo xiao ji thing which was super screwed where we had to grap paper crosses tied behind ppl and everyone was just anyhow grabbing. and frozen tee! which was like a facil donated a shirt to be frozen in a ziplock bag, then we had to find it and chip off the ice and the facil had to wear it. brr. and they had to strip to wear it lol. we were first for that too! those were at the (super dark) carpark.

um don't rmb much of the rest haha. oh the bathing facilities were the most awesome of any camp. cos they were brand new and installed just for us haha. and we didn't queue as long cos we went the downstairs toilet which quite few ppl went to for some reason. yeah and sleeping was quite comfortable quite warm cos my sleeping bag's thick ha. managed to successfully on phone whee. and this year they were damn strict abt sleeping, lights out at 11+ and facils walking arnd shooing ppl to sleep. ok but that means we all slept better la hah except those random guys laughing through the night and the girls who were kept awake by that.

day 2. lotsa shuffling and whispering at like 6 (we were supposed to wake up abt 6.30) woke us all up rawr. btw that happened every morning. yeah so morning prayers, sessions, P&Ws (:D). haha I realised that P&W is more fun when we sing nice songs la haha or songs we know at least. shout to the Lord! above all! prince of peace! how great is our God!

yeah anw day 2 was the gross games day I think. yeah it was. 1st: water bombs. fill plastic bags, throw to each other and catch with our shirts, then the actual bombing. didn't really get wet la haha. 2nd: what I made our batch do during batch chalet that time! but this was worse. stick our faces in flour, get food out with our mouths, and EAT IT! eww. didn't get any unglam shots though! I hope. 3rd: doing 7 elephant spins, sticking our arms in a bucket of like curry powder+leftover rice+sand+sesame oil+soya sauce+I've no idea what else, and fishing out lego pieces to build smth they show us a pic of. 4th: the best one! carry paper cups with holes of water on our heads and dump in a bucket at the other end, and try to get the ping pong balls out with our mouths. haha I finally contributed to one of the grosser parts of a game! if not it's always the guys doing more haha paiseh. 5th: the worst man. ruined my shirt! )): aloysius (facil) was "volunteered" to have some flour+water+green food colouring mixture applied on his back and we had to wipe it off with body parts they called. and I had hair and back! rawr. it didn't come off even after I bathed, and my shirt was like :/. ok the last game, which we missed, was some twister thing where the coloured dots were like paper plates with ketchup and chocolate sauce and whatever haha.

ok what a long paragraph haha. hm and 2nd night was prayover. didn't feel anything. ): but I did feel unexplainably awake and gracemary (facil) said they prayed for us to be awake haha. mhmm and we watched passion of Christ before prayover! was tearing slightly. vivienne was laughing, sadistic freak! X/ yupp so sharing, everything. oh dinner was at like 4. -.-

day 3. amazing gRace! around serangoon gardens. haha darrell practically knew the whole place, we just followed him around. damn hot! got a bit tanner. haha and walked a damn long. cos we went to the wrong park, so we walked all the way back, then all the way there again cos that was the next station. and stupidly went some long way, though that meant we got free coke haha! yupp only got to 4 out of 8 stations haha.

then was the emo part of camp, the session, then the letters from our parents thing, and a lot of ppl were sobbing, and I was tearing. and vivienne was wailing and shayne got so freaked out he comforted her. and quite a few guys cried too so sweet. :') yupp then we went to the parish hall to meet our parents and some of us just burst out crying again. I was really quite touched la cos during prayover I prayed for like my family, like our relationship, and then when I met my family, I really burst out crying quite unexplainably. and when we sang everyday God I started crying again. it really shows that the Holy Spirit doesn't come immediately and when you expect it to.

yupp so supper with parents, didn't eat, but there was fruit punch! :O when we had been drinking plain water for the past few days lol. and passed my mum the green spotted black shirt. and was super sad that it was the last night of camp! D: so we wanted to stay up, and we were on a spiritual high (in the middle of the night lol) so when father brian made a threat abt sending ppl who made noise to the grotto to sleep, we asked a facil whether we could voluntarily go there (cos we wanted to sing P&W songs at the top of our lungs haha), and she said of course not, so it was prob an empty threat haha.

day 4. we amazingly fell asleep, and woke up at 7 cos the assembling time had been pushed back to 7.30, when the facils came and said everyone's so tired, so they pushed it back even more to 8.30 wow. poor facils ok! gmary said they stayed up to 6am writing fuzzies! :O and it shows la, like hers were superrr long and superrr neat. joanne wonderfully wrote just a hello. -.-

sessions, P&W (the last one! D:), watched midnight productions (a video photo collage) and whoo I wasn't caught haha (besides my foot in the foot scrabble one -.-). then confession and almost all of us really felt lighter. (: and by then I was really AURGH alrd cos it was almost the end of camp! D: then we did cleanup, and we had to do parish hall and parish hall toilets. facils ftw! they're like so awesome. and we loser sweepers haha though we did get some dust and stuff la haha. but at first the parish hall really looked so clean and shiny alrd so we just stood on a spot and randomly flicked around.

then we had to wear mass attire and since no dorm alrd and there were guys I just wore over and felt so fat and tight lol. btw, the whole camp, I never changed in the toilet! :O bathing doesn't count. I mean all the mass attire and games attire and whatever. yeah then we had spiritual prep, and shayne ah walao, (though I'm guilty too), he kept laughing at the guy who was talking cos he had a strong cheena accent. and beverly's freaky split! haha. yupp then went for mass. half an hour only. and sang shine Jesus shine! :D then went back to parish hall, and got our fuzzies! (: I like this year's fuzzies whee. so much more heartfelt. and saw some cool handwritings haha. like aloy's! and gmary's is just like omg SO NEAT.

so marks the end of camp. D: I miss it sooo much okay. it was so freaking awesome. ok so takeaways hmm. a better relationship with God, family (hopefully), new friends :D, strengthened friendships, a spoilt tee rarh, beautiful fuzzies, a love of some hillsongs, general highness.

but for some reason the past 17 hrs or so has made me super sad. argh I really wish I'm not affected so much when friends are upset. D: and gosh, the world around me is so scandalous. like seriously. well, we shall just stay as innocent no life rgbandgirls. help I wish church camp just never ended. like obs. but at least I wasn't feeling super upset for various reasons/people after obs.

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