whoa! cool! just came back from LLTC 2007 about 2 hours ago... so tired. was the main facil for the group Kevin! it rocks man! haha... my co-facil was roth, the SJI head prefect... about 7 hours since camp ended and i already miss my group! haha... they were such a FUN lot. haha....

day 1, monday

went to SJI at about 7am. the participants separated into groups and stuff, and found out that joel yee, nathaniel leong, kenneth lim, nicholas loo, senthilkumar, terence lim, from SJI were in my group... the st pats guys that were supposed to be in my group was shawn huang, lee min jie, bryan sng and ebenezer lim... shawn huang didnt turn up for the camp... anw, had ice breakers then the walk the talk. had to walk from SJI to st pats. me and roth followed the group for walk the talk... we walked from SJI to newton then to farrer park then to kallang thru balestier rd and down thru guillemard rd and then thru tanjong katong to east coast road. from there, walked straight down to st pats... had lunch and then 7 habits.... during the station games, it rained, so continued in the classrooms.. after dinner, had a talk about La Salle... and then reflection and group time then the participants went to sleep at about 11.45pm. we facils had a debriefing till about 12.45am. after that, bathed, brushed teeth and slept in the facil room at abt 2am.

day 2, tuesday

roth took the group for the morning run, so i slept in till about 7.15am. the groups had come back for their showers. so showered, brushed teeth and had breakfast with the group. after that, had a talk by kenny... then had the 7 habits. sat in with my group. kept drifting off... haha... so was my group... haha. then had lunch... axel didnt bring his track pants cos his group was going for ropes course, so lent mine to him... my group went to dragon boat after lunch. quite fun. spent the time splashing about and stuff. when we finished, the bus still hadn't arrived yet so we played some game fillers with the participants. then we got back and played a few more games then showered. after that, the facils, including me, who were taking part in the heritage play went to to heritage hall to have a final full dress rehearsal while the other facils and LYNKsters helped out for dinner for the participants... during the play, it went quite well, and then i suddenly blanked out halfway singing... haha... a little obvious... argh! haha... but overall kenny said it was quite good... the play ended at about 10pm, and the facils went to eat dinner while the participants had reflections... roth left that night as he had to go off... after that, had supper and did group reflection. after that, went to the secetariat and read the group's journals and stuff then at 12am, had the day debriefing then bathed and went to sleep at about 1.45am.

day 3, wednesday

woke up at 6am. went to wake up my group... was raining, so we did the indoor route for the morning run. after that, the groups had showers and breakfast. ate with my group again. during the session of Our Social Realitites for the participants, went to bathe with the other facils. when they went for the 7 habits, went to the facil room to prepare for that night's reflection session for the participants. was in charge of that particular reflection session as i was in the reflection sub-committee.. then had a hurried lunch with my group and took a bus to the ITE simei. while waiting for the groups to finish, went with lennon, joseph, mark and a few others to play soccer at the street soccer court, which was just beside the ropes course place. then went back to my group... while they were doing the leap of faith thing, they forced me to do it after they finished it... haha.. quite fun. well, t'wasnt that bad as i had done it before in ATF... haha... when we went back to sch, the group went for showers and had community time. spent some time with them. they all wanted to know about the 'fast food' that was stated in the timetable for later that day for dinner... haha... told them it was macs... haha... they didnt believe... anw, during the community time, joined with lennon's group to play some games outside the DNT block... on the way back, they passed the home econs room and saw the pots containing the porridge that they were gonna eat later... haha.. so sad.. surprise lost liao... so later when they went to the band square for the 'fast food', they weren't too surprised to see that they were having porridge for dinner... purpose of the whole thing was to show them that not everybody is as lucky or as priviledged as us to have 3 full meals everyday and to know when we'll eat the next time... the group didnt take it too well... haha... said some vulgar things.... then they went to the hall and had a talk by eric about Lasallian Spirituality. aftre that, i had my reflection session witht the participants.. went ok... tho first part a little screwed up... haha... but overall went quite ok... after supper, did group review with my group in their room. while debriefing them about the day and their actions, nearly cried cos of the stupid stuff they did... haha.. after that, at about 11.45pm, when it was lights out for the participants, went to the secetariat to read my group's journal. after that, had day debriefing by kenny again then went to sleep.

day 4, thursday

woke up later than usual, at about 7am. the group had showers and stuff then had brekafast. after photo taking, went for Journey With A Dream. went to the st luke's home at tampines. took out some old folks on wheelchairs to tampines mall. walked about and stuff, and had lunch with them at the food court there. after the thing, took a 31 back to sch. had a bit of rest time then had the Journey debriefing at the hall... the particpipants were split whereby each member of each group had a number, from 1 to 12. all the 1s would form a circle and so on. went to join group 3... quite a nice discussion we had. after that, the groups had showers and community time. and then dinner... during their dinner time, was helping gabriel, lennon and joseph with the setting up of stuff for the Solidarity Lasalliana. after dinner, the paricipants went on a tour of the sch, passing by facils acting as poor, dying and abused, showing a few of the social realities out there. wasnt involved in the acting, so i joined my group as they walked.. quite interesting. the route ended at the hall, where there was a presentation and some food laid out on banana leaves. first, there was bittergourd, to remind us of the unpleasant memories. then there was the lime, then rice and finally rock sugar. hmm... lazy to expaling what they all symbolise... haha... refer to my last year's post on LLTC, when i was a participant... i think i wrote it all down. anw, after the Solidarity Lasalliana, there was affirmations and then supper and then lights out after some group time. oh yeah, roth came back during the affirmations, and roth and i did a reflection/group review with the group. last night liao, so it was a little long... then after lights out, had a debriefing with kenny. then we bathed and went to sleep. slept at about 3am.

day 5, friday

woke up at 6plus, went with roth and ran with the group for morning PT. ran at eastcoast parkway. then we had showers and breakfast. then had a talk on Lasallian Leadership by brother mike. was so tired, so went to the facils room and slept all the way till lunch, while the particpants had their 7 habits talk and the Lasallian Award briefing... had lunch witht the group, then had are cleaning and packing up. then went to the heritage room for one last time. had the mega summary, where they showed us pictures of the events during the camps and a talk by kenny and then a camp evaluation. then had the commissioning and closing at the chapel square. we all had to read out our personal mission statement to our group and then pour some water into a huge bowl of water, symbolising all our experiences shared and joined. then the brothers pinned the Lasallian collar badge on the participants and then we said goodbye and the we facils went to the heritage room. as the participants got their bags and left, we all sang goodbye and some other stuff. after the participants left, we facils had to clean up the area, pack up the classrooms and then went to the heritage hall. there was a buffet for us, started dinner at 8pm, and at 8.30pm had a final debriefing with kenny on the camp. ended at 10pm. took a cab home with marcus seetoh and edmund. reached at 10.30pm plus. bathed, watched tv then went to sleep.

FOUNDATION OF LASALLIAN SPIRITUALITY
Sign of FAITH

Spirit of ZEAL(Service)

FRATERNITY(Community)

TOGETHER AND BY ASSOCIATION
SOLIDARITY with the Poor