Monday, September 18, 2006

   no.017 //18.09.2006
well well well
today is phongie and inamoto junichi's birthdays.

but hell im gonna write about camp instead.

[STAGEONE]--

i rushed my mom to drive lizzie and i to the scout hall early. but it was all for nothing. people came late for a reason but anyway...we left the hall about an hour later than planned. the trip was alright, with me singing all these jap songs on the way, and wasting a battery bar on jennifer's mp3 player. i demanded a seat next to a cubscout named johnson. he's extremely cute and reminds me of daminh and danny, the pro altarboys.

when we arrived at the campsite at night, we didnt have the key to the camp's gate. so there was more delay. but the delay was a good thing, we didnt have to put up the tents, we got to sleep in the cabins [with the lil cub scouts heh heh heh]. i felt like doing some kind of good deed that night, so i inflated [partially] the gym balls that were brought along. which lead to the slight pain in my arm the next morning. the night was quiet for me. the last thing im gonna say about the first day is that it was the only day that i wore my japan jersey.

[STAGETWO]--

i was told by johnson [i slept on the bunk across from him, at the same level] that i was sleeping on my stomach, with my face in my hands. i mean, who does that? *me* so i went to do all the morning buzz and got ready for the exercise from hell. it went on for about an hour when it was only meant to go for 15 minutes. we jogged all the way somewhere, and back. when we came back, we went to have breakfast. i was probably the only one who ate cereal, so i ate all three types of cereal that we had [nutri grain, fruit loops and the milo cereal]. thanks to the cereal, ive grown to hate the fruitloops. i hate it i hate it...

we then had the opening ceremony of the camp, after the saturday group have arrived [i was in the friday group]. they handed out awards to some of us:

jennifer: being a fast learner and did her best in everything
me: thinking and for my scout leadership, but my temper was mentioned in a very abstract way
richard: for greeting the leaders and being polite
daniel: for being a fast learner
tim: for being a fast[er^^] learner

i forgot the rest, forgive me onegaishimasu ne?

well then. after that, the two patrols [my patrol was ultragon with long as our leader, and our rival patrol is banananana, with alan as their leader] competed in the activities. then there was the wide game, where my favourite activity was the ropes course. i go to camps for ropes courses <3. after that we were meant to prepare skits for the campfire...but we got carried away in the daring game.

it started with the cooking competition after the wide game. while we were cooking, i heard that someone ate a part of a clove of fresh garlic, and felt competitive. so i went for the garlic too. twice. and only had a capful of water to 'cure' me. after that cooking competition, kevin and alan, alex and i went for the chillis. it was GREAT. kevin had no reaction, alan did great, i didnt give off a big reaction, but alex's reaction was just off xDDD [took in water, spat it out rite away...x__x]. we had to chew the chilli twice, but they made me chew it three times. afterwards, i was titled by huan as the 'tank girl' =]]]

then theres spin the bottle. but there was only dare. no truth xD. anyway i participated but the bottle never pointed to me. things that happened was...
- alex had to lick a tree
- christina had to eat chilli [i think]
- alan had to put ice in his pants and jump...
- kevin had to lick a stick
i dont remember the rest. i think the majority of the time, we were deciding on the dares for the 'chosen ones'.

then there was the campfire. truong thanh [scout leader] got upset at us for not preparing a skit for the campfire. so both groups decided to prepare two skits in 15 minutes. ultragon did charades and sang happy birthday to alan, whose birthday was on the next day [sunday]. banananana did a skit with albert as the story teller and no offence, but hes cute xD. he talked half viet half english with the north accent~ their second skit was also a song, but it was a total crack up xDDD. it was the twinkle twinkle little star song: normal version and fob version. albert intro'd it as 'the first song that the vietnamese people learnt when they first arrived in australia' [in albert-vietnamese of course...] it went like this...

twinkle twinkle little sao, how i nghi may la gi, up above the troi so cao, giong nhu diamond in the troi, twinkle twinkle little sao, how i nghi may la gi

(c) Albert Pham and Lizzie Nguyen

we then had to sing this viet song that is composed of 4 lines. i was high that night so i challenged the other group to go solo... i went solo without a challenge in particular anyway. just did it for my pet patrol <3

then at that same night, we had the night game, where you basically just steal the scarfs on the heads of the opponents. in the dark. with torches if necessary. i was with jennifer hiding and running around, and got my first bite by some cursed ant. i also picked the stupid bullant off me right after it bit me, so i was completely turned off for that moment. but jennifer and i remained alive, with our only plan in mind: hiding. we nearly got caught by albert and chris, but heh, they ran off cuz jennifer nearly got them. i was on a platform somewhere...when i went to supper i nagged the leaders about the bite on my leg. the pain... then i had to go the campfire again for the scouts to prepare for their scout linking ceremony [thingo] the next morning. we had to sleep in tents this night.

[STAGETHREE]--

i realized that i had lost my scarf that morning. man arent i slow. well turned out that...kevin took it at supper [my scarf was with all my otehr stuff, i dont see why he had to take it =="] and gave it to michael who gave it to vicky, who gave it to truong linh. anyway...we skipped exercise thank god... but i still had to go with the scouts for a hell of a hike to some place... for the ex-cubscouts to do the linking ceremony thingo...so there was my exercise. it took a while but it all went well. on our way back some of us decided to run, and so, started a race to get back to the camp. i came fifth, but i was the first girl~ xD

breakfast...hmm...toast and bacon&eggs for me that morning. then there were more activities...which one ultragon had lost big time because of me T__T. but we did well in all the other events. then came the waterbombs~ which was fun. i dont know how to describe it, but we had to clean everything up in the end..then there was lunch that came and went, and we had to pack the tents away and do a cleanup around the campsite.

the closing ceremony came. more prizes were distributed for both the patrols and individuals. i got a prize for motivation and thinking up plans...etc. so time to go home....soon. vicky accidentally lost the key to kevins car, so the fishing thing was postponed...and never happened. it was alright, we got to go to the frankston beach thingo. and vicky found the key. so kevin and truong dinh plus tina and alex went back to the campsite to get kevins car. alex and tina werent meant to go...but anyway *shifty eyes*

we arrived at the scout hall. i went off to sing 'motherland' from fullmetal alchemist by myself cuz i had a little bit of a 'moodswing'. so anyway, it started to rain. we brought everyone's luggage in the scout hall and stayed there, waiting for everyone else to come and celebrate alan's birthday. we all signed this card thingo, and ate cake~ then i went home.

the camp was great. i learnt a load of things, im glad i didnt skip this camp. ive also learnt a lot about everyone, especially about vicky, johnson, and a few *specific* things about kevin.

anyway ive written an essay long... or two essays long on camp, i'll stop here. until next camp, i'll be trying to cure my insect bites...

odaiji ni
kaizenkaoru--

--owari