It was a normal morning assembly as we all sat according to our classes and the same old routine. But this time it was all different, all the secondary threes were carrying luggages and bag full of camping stuff. I was quite uneasy about the whole idea of going to camp as I have only been to church camps and I know that this is nothing like church camps at all, we were all learning about something else, something quite important and essential for our lives.
And in a blink of an eye, the boring assembly ended and all the secondary threes had to stay behind to hear our group names and assigned to a teacher in charge. Our group name was something like "Chil" which I thought was kind of cool and it was a name of a bird which made it cooler. I have always admired birds, they live such carefree lives and have practically no purpose other then to be shot down dead or just to die naturally and you even get to glide effortlessly in the wind. But that was not the point, and before I knew it, we were at the campsite and it looked rather surprising.
It was not very dirty or old, but it looked rather well maintained and there was a very big field of bright lime green grass which we later found out we had to pitch our tents and sleep on. We did not waste anymore time and started on our activities after the long wait on the grassy green pastures under the immense heat of the sun. We were thought how to pitch the tents they had and we were all assigned tents to sleep in. The whistle was blown signaling the start of our activities.
Well I had to admit that day one was not as fun as when we started out the few team bonding games not all of us were helping. Do not get me wrong, I do not mean that we were anticipative but they were all too worked up when we took a while to do something like building a raft. They all wanted to do the work and there was not enough things for all of us to do and as I look to my left and right I see a couple of my friends just standing under shade watching my work eager classmates complete the whole thing themselves. I did help out a bit but there just shoved me away wanting to do all the work, but I was cool standing in the shade anyways.
Camp seemed boring at the start but the fun was pacing up as each day passes by. And I thought the activities was pretty interesting and most, almost all of the activities needed a lot of teamwork and coordination. I had an amazing time with this unique class of cool people! Everything just seemed really fun and thrilling. It must be tiring to organize such interesting mind and boggling games for us.
We played various games like one where we had to build our own catapult on our own with a couple of long wooden sticks and strings. It was really interesting the many different ideas we all had to build the catapult and how we picked the best sounding idea and following along with it, and soon we managed to accomplish it! Although it wasn't really good we had a lot of fun making that wooden thing. We even won the first prize for the best score for each activity!
This camp has thought me a lot about teamwork and how teamwork is important for my class, or any other classes. A class that has no teamwork is like a bunch of individuals doing their own thing.
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