Posted 4:27 PM

Camp Odyssey

I'm pretty caught up with things at the moment. Let's recap.
Sunday was a day of sun. It was also the day when the mentors and mentees gathered from all 9 schools to have an outing together.

If you noticed a sea of kids (mentees) and kid-wannabes (mentors) running around in the vicinity of the NUS fields, that's us.

200 mad people running around would be a conservative estimate.

We started the morning pretty well, but some mentees were unbelievably late, and on hindsight, we should have taught them some cheers earlier because I think we really struggled with that, although everyone did put in effort shouting in the end. The first few games were boring, as expected, but the morale was high throughout, and the kids ran from place to place. The MENTORS were walking behind! Slackers!! =D I admit I was pretty stoned occasionally, but I ran ok! The male mentees kept wanting to race with me, and obviously I don't lose to 13 year olds. Heh.

We then played some circuit games; you know, going to different stations and completing different tasks as a team. One memorable one was having to transfer water bombs using ponchos (raincoats). We were supposed to collect 20 water bombs in the bucket, but before the game finished, some of us ended up throwing water bombs all over the place. The game master said we did well INITIALLY but we can only blame ourselves for not completing the task.

Well we did have a lot of fun. =D And I got bombed. 3 times. And that's excluding the number of times the mentees tried to throw at me and missed. Do I have this "come-whack-me face?" But as my friend said, it's because they like me so they play with me. I like them too! This event really let me see how fun they all can be. In the afternoon during a break we played football (using a paperball) and I kept scoring against this mentee goalkeeper. Wahaha! The rest were playing volleyball (looks like a water polo ball?), or rather, they spend most of the time picking the ball. (ssshhh, better don't let them hear me on this)

Lunch was a rice packet of vegetables, fish, and 3 fishballs, inclusive of a packet drink. Some kids complained they don't like vegetables. Hmm sounds familiar.

The tempo was raised after lunch and we played games involving a school taking on another school. We played dog and bone and I ran twice and won twice, and some fellow mentors actually said "Wah you finally did something useful today."

me: .....

There was also a game involving scissors paper stone, where each school sends a representative out each round and the loser gets rained with water.

Our school lost 32-13 or something along that scoreline. And I'm not exaggerating to say that there was a sequence when we lost 10 times in a row. What are the odds of that?!?!

The other school was shouting. "Why are we so dry?"

It was a hot day, alright? We like some water sprinkled on ourselves. Hah yah right.

We also played contact sports like football and captain's ball, and the final challenge was to engage in a race with all the schools to see who gets to the end first and save the wife of OlymPIG, the king of Babala, who got kidnapped by men from witchie witchie land. And this guy who portrayed OlymPIG had a robe wrapped around him and a stupid crown made of paper and grass attached to his head.

Oh man I can't believe I remembered all these stupid names.

Our school didn't get into the top 3 but all schools got a prize each anyway, which was a huge parcel of goodies and tidbits.

And so it was time to go, and most of us had dinner at Clementi together, before we went home feeling exhausted and sun burnt.

It really was an amazing day. I look forward to interacting with both mentees and mentors again.


29 of us. I believe it was the biggest attendance amongst all schools. And we took care of all of them. Thanks to all mentors. =)


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