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I apologise for the skimpiness but blogger hung on me just as i finished typing this super long post.

BACK FROM OBS.

ITS SO FUN CAN

I CONQUERED MY FEAR OF HEIGHTS (And so did cc and Sakino! yay!)

Will upload photos when they come in.

Day 1:

Instuctor was Mario, or Handsome. Hahaha. Great guy, Damn funny and nice.

Did rock wall on the first day. Was rather apprehensive but decided to attempt the middle wall (the vertical one) as opposed to the slanted ones, which were termed as easier. But I think all of them had the same amount of difficulty, especially with regards to the right side of the slanted rock wall. Few people got to the top of that one. I needed to climb about 10 tiles. Made it to tile 8 after very very long and gave up. My hands were shaking when I pull.

Right now, I have to sincerly apologise to Amos cause he was bilaying me and the skin on his hands tore becasue I was up there too long. Sorry Amos!

Day 2:


Kayaking (Or as my instructor Mario calls it: Canoeking) =)

Inverse tower! Sakino, we rock! It was actually quite easy but I was tired in the end. THe view up there was spectacular and I never enjoyed high elements as much.

At night, we ahd to come up with a skit for the 'Indiana Arts Fest' themed ' Being a leader is about...' We came up with a funny skit about finding treasure. A discussion went like this:

Dominic: We set him some obstacles to go through
Me: Like 'OMG THERE'S A COCONUT BLOCKING OUR PATH!'

Day 3:

Indiana Arts Fest was a sucess!

Games!

We broke up into our PEAKS team and came up with a flow chart to use when facing challenges. A PEAKS team is basically built around the personalities of 8 people, and it is generally assumed that if you get these 8 people together, you will get a good team. I was teamed up with Sakino, Dominic, Eunice, Adlin, Sung, Yun Hui and Jemimah.

Games played:

Ball juggling - Think its easy? THink again. You ahve to throw a ball to someone not in your immediate left or right. You can only use one hand, all team members must throw at the same time, and no one must fail to catch the ball for 3 consequtive times. WE managed to do it in the dying seconds.

Team ski - I was the 'observer' for this challenge to see what roles we play in a team. It looked rather fun, though.

Team link - Quite fun game as well.

Afternoon Games:

Star of David - We were blindfolded and given 2 ropes to make a star of david. We managed to do it but then realised the ropes were of different length. We tried to do it agian but it failed. But NVM!

Tunnel challenge - Had to crawl through a tunnels (very dark) given 2 light sticks to find puzzle pieces and a puzzle board. Managed to complete it and it was much easier then I imagined. I imagined a freaking big tunnel with stone walls and all.

Tree Challenge - We needed to walk together, blindfolded, to a designated tree and thanks to Eunice's sixth sense and everyone's effort, we made it on our first go!

We told jokes into the night in the bunk and Zhi Jun came over from Bo Seng to tell us to lower the volume. The jokes were funny!

Day 4:

Kayaking ^^

12km! Great job KURT! It was actually quite a nice experience kayaking in a mangrove.

We did a picture at night about what we learnt in obs and it was fun. We had to rpetend that there were no languages or numerals and jsut draw out the experience together on a big piece of paper.

We went backa nd told jokes and ghost stories again. THen we played truth or dare. I fell asleep at 1.30am but they talked until 3.30am.

Day 5:

Was woken up by Sung who told me: Its 6.15! Actually, I didnt really want to go for PT because the temperature was so cold and perfect for sleeping! After PT, we went for breakfast, then packed and cleared our bunks, followed by 2 games of murderer before bunk inspection.

Had a little talk about our portion of our drawing, then shopping and lunch. We then chatted and it skipped from ghosts to barney to cartoons.

Then it was time to go.

T_T

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Personally my whole experience there was qutie enriching. I really could be myself infront of some people, including my learning partner Sakino and Yun Hui. I particularly remember when YH and I went to Marshall to return an excess water bottle and we had a short light-hearted chat where I really felt comfortable. I also remember Sakino's Heart-to-Heart talk with me on the 2nd night and I really appreciated it.