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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Day 2 YoReCa camp Checkmate =P

hello :)

Second day of the week,
Second day of the camp,
Second day together.

woke up early in the morning for flag raisin today. our grp was IC for this important part of the day and also including the morning exercise.

unaffected by the rainy weather, (although the activities were) we sat for 2 talks at a go, 1 by Ms Yolinda abt racial harmony and Ms Yeo with her experiences as a psychologist in the Asian Tsunami disaster which devastated Phuket and several other countries.

the first talk was very enlightening, as we learnt abt how different races are accepted and unaccepted by others. the second talk was even better, looking at different pictures around the disaster devastated country where we were brought through the whole process where different associations worked together to achieve a common goal, helping the disaster stricken country.

after the long run of theoretical activities, there was a change of environment, in which we had a game called Key Punch.

a circle is lay out by a rope and plates are placed within it. according to numerical order, groups will have to hit the 'bombs'. as team no.1 we started first, we went into the learning lounge, where the game started. starting out, we were quite surprised by the different languages of the numbers. as the game went on, we found out abt the lacking number of plates and started taking down the initials for the different numbers.

lunch was delicious. followed by the field trip to Singapore Civil Defence Force.

sitting through the audience-engaging talk, we learnt abt emergency procedures we needed to act upon. for example, wad to do during tremors and tsunamis... afterwards, a policeman took over the speech and talked abt unconventional disasters. in an event of a chemical attack, one muat learn how to seal oneself in a room using only masking tape and garbage bags. Following this, each group was given a chance to put our knowledge to the test. We got to the training centre n practised sealing up a room. (very waste) we had to do it within 3 minutes or "poisonous" smoke would be pumped inside. In the end we all didn't die. Yay.

Our final activity of the day was a variation of the game most of us know as "skipping". Choy would give us challenges n we had to find a way to overcome it, with the promise of $1 ice cream if we completed the task. After around 2 hours, exceeding the time by 1 hour, we finished all 7 tasks, and of course did not manage to get the $1 ice cream:(. but it still was exhilarating and ended off with a BANG!

YAY


woohoo...:)

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