The Circle Xperience: Day 01

The 'Circle Xperience', u all must be thinking 'what the hell is the Circle Xperience' ?? It's Smu's Orientation Camp ...!! haa haa haa

Initially i was really sian of having to go for the orientation camp....!! Haa haa.... Thought that it'll be really boring and stupid. Thought that we'll have to do all those stupid stuffs and forced to entertain all those strangers who will be in my Orientation Group (OG). And also have to tolerate those 'childish' and 'inmature' girls from JCs. Never did i thought that i'll enjoy myself.

The first day was rather ok, i've got to know a few of my group's ppl. Especially the few that are not so quiet, like Shun Wei, Adeline, Tian Wei, Zhi Rui etc ... .... The first part of the Day 01 of the camp was not that fun, kinda make me wanna sleep and go home....!! Maybe cos i haven being having any of those outdoor actiuvities for too long, that's why i couldn't really adjust to it yet. And that the fact that i'm being surrounded by so many strangers doesn't helps...And i hated the first Ice-Breaker Game that we played. It's a game in which we have to memorise all the names of the ppl in the group, Damn ...!! I can't remember those Chinese names...., so Pai se...!!

But things turn for the better after the !st Activity ( High Element ). Though the activity is kinda a flop...!! Cos we only got to do one of the high obstacle, and we chosed one that wasn't that fun, kinda boring even,....!!

The 2nd Activity (trust fall) was better. It really got all of us going and get to 'trust' and open up to one another.

The third Activity was the best for Day 01. It's the 'Flip the Mat' game whereby we have to flip the mat on which we are all standing on to the other side. But it's kinda tiring, cos a few of the other guys and me have to carry one of the girls each. I carried Adeline on my shoulders. Though she wasn't heavy at all, but it still was really tiring after a while....!!Through the day, i find that she's a nice girl too, even like some of the songs/music that i liked....!! Like Phantom of the Opera and JJ....!!! But i'm really glad that we managed to finish in the 5th position....!! haa haa.., and that resulted in better food/ingredients for our Dinner (cos we are supposed to prepare our own dinner).

I kinda 'in-charge' of the cooking of the food. Don't know why also, maybe cos i like to cook more ?? haa haa...... but the guys helped a lot too, and also Adeline, really helped a lot....!! Though the food wasn't really very nice, but it was alrite, not too bad.....!! But we had too much food ...!! Couldn't finish it at all loh ...!! Too Much ......

There wasn't anymore activities after dinner. Only some performance put up by the facilitators for all of the freshmens . Followed by a 'Murderer Game' and Supper ..... The game was actually quite a good concept, though i personally felt that the time allocated was too short and didn't really allow the game to be brought to it's fullest potential.

Yeah, that's about it for Day 01. The last thing is the bathing part. We bathe in the portable showers. It's the first time that i've bathe in a portable shower, so cool...!! haa haa, the only bad thing about it is that the water's too weak..... Haiz, what a disappointment ........!!!!

At the end of the First day, i knew that the camp will not be as bad as i thought it would be, and i even think that i might have a very good chance of enjoying it. And i really do like the company of the ppl in my Group, like Shun Wei, Zhi Rui, Adeline, Tian Wei, Janice etc etc.....really Great .... !!Hope that they had enjoyed having me around as much .....


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