As for stuff out of curriculum, on Friday we did have a Home Creation meeting at Kallang Bahru with Viriya to basically confirm the basic stuff such as committees and get to know more about the project before we even start. Yep, so basically that was what it was for. 1o of us from the steering committee went there right after school, and didnt eat lunch cos we didnt have enough time. The nice viriya people then gave us some food and drinks! Haha, really thankful for that. I was getting hungry...lol. Quite a fruitful discussion, learnt quite a lot more about the project, and what I can expect. After the meeting, Teng Chuan and I rushed back to school for class deco, but somehow we got lost and the rest of the people who needed to go back but didnt run, reached faster than us. Haha, got jaacked. Anyway, when we reached class, all we saw was a nice plan done on the board and nothing done. Lols, ok. At least we have a plan now. So just went to do some maths homework while watching people play soccer. But I started to drift off...lol, so I decided to go for a jog instead. Haha, nothing compared to those people who were at the trials for the Hillary Challenge though. They all agreed it was tough...but good luck to everyone! =)
Yep so on Saturday morning, we got to school early, some for the Raffles Fest, but some like me just for our campfire preparation. We practised our stick dance one again, and Im still trying to get closer to prefection...need to improve more. Yep so we practised the dance from 8am to about 1pm. And also had a chance to take a sneak peek at the performances of the other groups of people, like the sec 1,2 and 3 dances. Thesec 1 dance was really cute I must say, haha. I can hum the song "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony..." lols.
So after that we had lunch at J8,and Alvin Chua, Kenneth Lam and I decided to go bowling before campfire since we had some time, but going home, then going to the campfire would take up most of it anyway. So we decided to go to Serangoon Gardens country club. And we even invited Alvin Lum and Teng Chuan to go with us. But when we reached there...it was fully booked for the whole evening. So we hang around at a playground nearby instead, lol. We even had a 'ninja warrior' competition and set up an obstacle course for ourselves. haha. Forgot to take a photo with Alvin Lum and Teng Chuan.
Haha, so after that we took a bus to AMK, and took the MRT to Redhill, where we bought dinner, then took a cab to River Valley cos we thought we were late, and were too tired to take the bus, haha. But luckily the ride was rather short, so it was ok. And after we went in, I got changed into my scout uniform and in we went.
They were all smiles there, and even had a structure visitors could climb on to find out more about their scout group. It was quite fun to climb up and down haha.
After we got seated, we met our buddy(sort of), Shao Hao. Haha he was very friendly and helpful to us. That made questions easier, haha. Anyway, the first thing we noticed was their backdrop. I personally thought it was very well done. It looks like it was printed, but Shao Hao said that it was painted and repainted many times until it looked like this. They started planning for the campfire since January. Looks like a lot of effort has been put in!
As seen, their campfire theme was 40 through the ages. And so their campfire had many elements from the last 40 years, from the 1960s to the current times. I enjoyed singing the songs with them, lol: Mama Mia, Can You Feel the Love Tonight, Girlfriend, etc. And of course them dancing, haha. The buddies were also instrumental in getting us to be more involved. They were quite busy though, haha, getting on stage to dance, before rushing back to us, then going back again...
They had quite a good mixture of games and the show itself, but we found that it ended rather early, haha.
To me, I found the campfire really good. Haha, except maybe for the first part when the sound system failed a few times. But they did solve the problem and everything flowed smoothly after that. Haha, the guys behind (Francis, Amos, Bryan, Hiok Yang)were always singing songs, lol. From "Please dont stop the music, music..." when the sound system stopped, to "Its too late to apologise..." and "Jack and Jill went up the hill...and Jill threw him out of the window", lols. Haha, so fun. Heres a group photo with our buddy, Shao Hao, after the whole thing:
Haha, thanks a lot to the River Valley Eagle Scouts for the really fun campfire! Hope that we would be able to put on a good show as well in our very own 01 Campfire next week! =D
