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Friday, June 03, 2005


Okok, after a close to 12 hour sleep session last night, I think I'm relatively more able to blog about xie zuo ying without falling asleep in front of the computer.

Anyway, besides the comic book lecture, the other lectures related to our main topic somehow didn't appeal to me at all. Somehow or another, I just couldn't pay attention, and after trying a while I gave up... Especially on the last day, they placed a lecture somewhere right before we were released from camp, and I don't think anyone was paying full attention at all. Everyone just couldn't wait to go home, and as much as I felt bad for the lecturer, I was trying my best not to fall asleep. With only about 20 minutes sleep in the morning, I had decided that I would make use of my time in the lecture to catch up on rest, but the chairs were so oddly shaped that there was no position you could sit in and be comfortable at. And after a while I gave up trying to sleep and started talking to the person next to me.

But then again, besides the lectures, the other programmes organised were quite fun I guess, and there was quite a bit of interaction between the schools. The best part of course was after everything was over, and we had our own within school interaction at the dorms, over games of bridge and mahjong. Not forgetting of course with many many packets of snacks, jellies, a radio that someone brought and the keyboard. That could have been called quality class bonding time, except not all of the class was around.

And within the group, I met lots of new people, and got to know someone else from school and others out of school. =) Hopefully they send the pictures around...

Oh yes, who can forget about the food! On the first day, everyone was apparently starved, and the ministry(?)/schools(?) decided to start feeding us more and more from the second day onwards. The meals were really good, compared to what I was expecting, although the utensils and plates reminded me of what you would get in a prison, with all the compartments sectioned out for you. Then we had weird syrupy drinks for all 4 days, which I have nothing much to say about, since they were all cold and stuff, so never mind.

A rather useful lifeskill we learnt there though, was how to pack as many people as possible into lifts which could hold a maximum of thirteen or so. It is especially important, as some poor people, nameless us, lived on the 7th floor of the hostel and walking up the staircase was not a pleasant solution to going up.

The living quarters weren't as bad as we expected, as we did have doors, just no walls separating the rooms next to each other. But that wasn't too bad, since we all knew each other and could conveniently run across to each other's rooms for entertainment. =)

Overall the camp did sort of make me wonder what I could do to make me improve my writing, (ie READ!) and how to try and use original viewpoints to look at events in my life so that they appear more interesting as essay content. But that wasn't the main thing I guess, it was more of interacting with people and learning how to adapt quickly to new surroundings that struck me most. The group interactions were strongly aided by having an enthu group leader and relatively chatty group mates.

But now it's back to school work and studying... Haiz..