Friday, November 10, 2006
yeah! just came back from the Patrician Leadership Training Camp(PLTC) yesterday... was the first camp i facilitated in... was very fun.. wish it had lasted longer... haha...
Tuesday - Day 1reported at 6.30am... waited for participants to arrive... at 7.30am, started to check them in. my group was Canice. Great group... haha... after that, had the ice breakers. conducted it with Ben Lo. played murderer, whacko, throw in a shoe, and a few other games... the group i was in charge of consisted of Jeremy Chow, Bryan Sng, Jitesh, Don, Andrew Sin, Clint Tan and Desmond. at 9am, had quite an interesting talk on public speaking by mdm sim(we facils already heard it last year when we were participants in this camp...). during the lecture, the facils were briefed on the stations to go next for the Action Time and team bonding... went with my group or about halfway, then left them with Ben as i had to go for a meeting on the Open House on the 24th nov. missed the team bonding with my group, but came back in time for lunch... haha... after lunch, had a boring talk by the RGS HOD of leadership training, Mr Anselm Chu. he talked about how to be a successful leader and handling difficult students. about half the people in the LT were dozing off.... after that, had a short scolding by Cikgu Hazlian cos of the pple dozing(i was guilty of the charge)... then had a karaoke session where the facils taught the participants some songs... later, the groups had showers(the facils only bathe after the lights out for the participants, which means that we bathed at 2am). after showers, had dinner then went on to the night trail. my group did quite well, and i was quite happy with them as they showed quite a bit of teamwork and cooperation with each other(i had to lead them throught the stations as Ben was a stationmaster and had to attend to a station). we finished the night trail, then went on to have supper. supper ended, then went back to the LT for reflection. at around 11.30pm, the groups went back to the rooms to brush teeth and stuff. i conducted the group review, then at 12am, had lights out. at 12.30am, after we went around checking the rooms, the facils went for debriefing by Bro. Nicholas and the camp chief, jason chan. at 1.20am, the debriefing ended and we went off to bathe and change and stuff... most of the facils went to sleep in the facil room, but bryan yeong, daniel lian and me went to sleep with the group... we took turns taking a shower, then went to sleep in the Buckley room(i didnt want to sleep in the Canice room as they were all already sleeping and i didn't was to disturb them)(Most of Buckley was still awake)...
Wednesday - Day 2
woke up at 6.45am, brushed teeth, washed up, then went with my group to have pt. lead Alban, Buckley and Canice on the 1.6km moring run, but ended up behind cos had to help the others along... haha... after the run, my group went to bathe. when they came back, did the morning reflection(i had Daniel to help me cos Ben lost his handphone and was searching for it)... at 9am, we were supposed to have our breakfast at the canteen, but as there were o levels going on, and the canteen is below the hall, the groups had their breakfast outside their rooms. i then left the group with Ben and went for the english supp class. ate breakfast in class(Mr Ho didnt mind...). after the class, went for another meeting with ricardo, dickson and edmuhnd about the open house. helped to do the posters for it... while i was away, the participants had a lecture on peer mediation and item preparation time... i had KFC for lunch(Ms Nura bought for us). after that, went down to the canteen for second lunch(i ate the vegetarian food as there was no more other food)... haha... ate with hands, as there was no spoons... after eating, went up to the LT for a lecture by Ms Helen Tan, our school counselor, about anger management. the whole talk was the same as last year, even the video... haha... so sat through it as a refresher course. haha... after the lecture and the karaoke session, we went for mass games, where we played, blow wind blow, ricardo says(a variant of simon says) and WATER BOMB fight! haha... we divided the groups into three teams, and they each had a 'general'. the 'general' was to be covered with newspaper as much as possible, and when the fight was over, the team with the 'general' with the dryest clothes wins. before that, when i was holding a water bomb, some idiot ran to me and burst it, making me wet... so then i got another bomb and shot at him point blank in the chest... haha... what at idiot. anw, after the fight, the participants went for a shower, then we went for dinner. after dinner, the groups went back for their item preparation, while the facils practised their own skit(i was the narrator). at 8pm, about an hour after dinner, the groups came back to the LT for the item presentation. the skits were quite good, but the facil one was the best!(i may be biased) haha... later, at around 9.30pm, went down to have supper. after supper, had reflections conducted by shao ming and daniel. they also told the participants about affirmations and stuff. after the session, i went with my group back to the room and i conducted the group review. the affirmation ended late, so by the time lights out was at 12.20am. went around to check on the groups, then had debriefing at 12.45am. after the debriefing, went to bathe. went again with bryan and daniel. after bathing and brushing teeth, did a bit of patrolling, checking the ground floor rooms, then went to sleep in the Canice room.
Thursday - Day 3
woke up at 6.45am, brushed teeth, then went with my group to the courtyard. reached there, then waited for the other groups... the groups were supposed to be there at 7.30am and wake up at 7am, but my group reached there at 7am... haha... had half an hour to wait... played the hand game, then when the groups arrived, did the pt. we did only the warm up, as there was phototaking later. after the pt, the groups went for showers and then had breakfast again outside the rooms. i sat at the benches in between Kiely and Alban block with dickson and bryan and daniel to eat. after breakfast and packing up, my group went for the phototaking. we did a whole camp one, then had individual group shots taken. after the phototaking, went to the LT for a talk on Problem solving and decision making by Bro. Nicholas. was the same talk as last year... haha... after that, had another karaoke session, then had lunch. we had lunch, then went back to the LT for another lecture on Group management and dynamics by Mr Shaheed. slept for the first part of the lecture, cos only had 4 hours last night... later, brought my group back to the room for them to pack up and everything... after arranging the tables and chairs properly, we went back to the LT for the last karaoke session and grand summary of the camp. during the grand summary, there was reflections of the past three days and recounting of experiences of the camp... a lot of pple were damn emo... a few pple cried... the bond between us was quite strong... after that, sang Passing on the Passion and All Stars. then gave out everybody's affirmations to each other, then gave out the prizes for the best camper and best group. so sad... my group Canice didn't win... was so hoping... instead, Francis won. after the prize giving, the participants were dismissed and the facils had to go for another debriefing. we went through most of the things, then left at 6pm, as the school had to be closed. will continue the debriefing on the 16th nov. by the time i got home was at 7.25pm. ate dinner, bathed, then watched tv till about 11 plus. went to sleep after that. was wishing it was 72 hours ago.... haha... all in all, PLTC was a GREAT camp!
PLTC Camp Schedule
x It´s been a long time,
but my time is finally near
at 2:28 pm