Sunday, November 11th 2007

I love(d) OBS! I wish it didn't have to end, even though I was running out on clean clothes to wear. Tough and simple life.

I just dug up one of the Hi-5 songs I used to love. "L.O.V.E". Now I understand why I liked it so much, it's so catchy. Simple but nice. I used to jump around on the sofa to that song when Dad was asleep.

Let me type about the first part of OBS.

When I got there, we stuck to our own cliques. I remember clinging to the IJ girls in my watch. Initially, I was hoping for no other IJ girls in my watch, so I could start afresh, if you know what I mean. It wasn't too bad, even though there were IJ girls in my watch. There were many other people from other schools to get to know. I think we had ice-breaking games on the first day, it was pretty boring. We had our first taste of the fierce jungle mosquitoes on/at Ubin.
Terrible, I tell you. They were swarming us like bees.
We also learnt to tie different knots, which we had to use in our tent-pitching. I met Yiqi, who is also from choir, and it was great because we could discuss it.

Dinner on the first day was a mix of rice, mini sausages and boiled peanuts. There were baked beans too but I didn't have any. I shared dinner with Lizzie. The rice turned out like porridge, but it tasted good after a long, tiring day.
We finally settled down in our tents at around 11pm, after showering and spraying a layer or two of insect repellent on our bodies.

We rose dark and early the next morning, since the sun wasn't even up yet. I think it was 5.30am. My body was all stiff from sleeping on the bumpy ground through the tent. We washed up and got ready for P.T.
P.T. wasn't very tiring. It wasn't as bad as my choir's, but it was still P.T. They had several games, too. Breakfast of biscuits and fruit, then we changed into our long-sleeved shirts and long trousers and "wet" shoes, and went to meet Elton at the instructors' lodge. We then all went down to the sheds to learn about kayaks. I remember it was drizzling, but we were going to get wet anyway, so nobody cared.
We learnt how to hold the paddles, how to get into the kayaks correctly, how to steer the kayaks, and then came the real thing where we actually went out into the sea in our kayaks.
I discovered I'm sea-sick.
Vomited into the sea once that day, when we were learning the basics of kayaking.
Will continue the rest another day.