Everyone gathered at the ProEd Room at 8am in the morning and after the briefing, we were assigned to our classrooms. We started out with cleaning up the ENTIRE class (you would not believe it but the floor was extremely dusty...mind you we had to sleep on it...). Clean up -->hard work. The day's activities started with the regular usual icebreakers so as to know our group members even better. I was excited (probably not at the icebreakers but I try to look as if I did) and was extremely enthusiastic about it. Though the icebreakers were the usual ones (you know... imagine...you would find out soon enough...) they managed to break the surface of ice and unfriendliness and transform it into a bond of friendship.
In my opinion, this bond of friendship is extremely important. To be a true leader, one must be able to lead and be the stepping stone for others to follow, and only when others are able to follow, can there be a true bond between leader and follower. If a leader is just leading for the sake of leading, and not to be someone who leads for the sake of others, he is not a true leader. However, for someone to be called a leader, that particular someone must have followers, and to have followers, one must have a bond of friendship and teamwork between both leader and follower so as to work together and strive towards victory. Without the icebreakers, it would hence be harder for us to be true leaders, as it would be slightly harder to break the initial layer of ice.
After the icebreakers, there was...... a mini amazing race! It consists of 5 stations for us to complete in a given amount of time. It is a test of teamwork and courage, as one must work as a team so as to be able to complete the tasks (that is why it is called a leadership camp). Although we have already broken the initial layer of ice, the team was not really complete yet, as we lacked trying to do activities together as a team, and hence, there was a slight miscommunication on which station we were supposed to start on first. In the end, we managed to head to our destination. The station is called "Mission Impossible (though honestly speaking it was totally possible)". The situation then was that the ground was extremely polluted and acidic, and we were not allowed to step into a specified zone as we would get incinerated. There is a pail of water in the middle of the zone, and given two long poles and a piece of string (they could not cut the string...), we were supposed to retrieve the pail of water from the zone as it was our water supply. After thinking as a group, we decided to tie the string to one end of each pole, and like a lasso, pulled the pail out of the zone. We failed once, as the string caught at the top of the pail, spilling the water, but it worked to our advantage, as it made the floor slippery, which made our next attempt waaaay easier.
The next station was known as "Aboard, let's flip". We all stood on a spread out piece of poncho and while standing on it, we had to flip the poncho over. Well, it was rather hard as we had about 8-9 people on the same poncho and it was rather squeezy...but we managed to flip it over in the end, due to the fact that one of our group members have already done the activity before. A piece of cake!!!
Next up, was "Prey and Predator". A simple game really, that tests more of your reaction speed and agility. Everyone would be given a number tag and it is to be pasted on the participants' backs. When the station master calls out, e.g "5 chases 6", then the participants would have to chase another participant according to what the station master said and try to remove the tag. The station master can reverse the order at any point in time. It was rather fun, until we realised something, and that was that the tags couldn't be stuck on out t-shirts! Sigh...had to make do with trying to stuff part of the tags into the shirt...
Following that was "Newspaper bridge". Another simple task. With the help of our team mates, we were tasked to build a tower (has to stand upright of course) out of newspapers. We made use of the fallen tower from the previous group and started working on it, making it stronger by reinforcing its foundations. It is also a task that strengthens our foundations as a group, just like the foundations of the newspaper tower itself!
And finally...It is ...uhh...I forgot the name of the station but here goes...We were given a packet of cheese rings and we were supposed to pass the rings down our group, which is arranged in a row...With straws and no hands used! Only with great patience and extreme teamwork can this be fufilled...Pass it on...Pass on the cheese ring...YES! One more...Almost there...YES AGAIN! etc...........................and we got a total of 4... not a lot but still a representation of our hard work and team spirit!!! GO! GO! GO!
Urgh...fingers aching...urgh...more in part 2...
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