Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Day 23 - High element and Outward Bound activities!

Day 23 started really early! We gathered below our hostels at 8am. We were then taken to an area just beside our campus where we had team-bonding games at first! We were required to create an identity for our group. So we decided on having Xanier as our tribe leader, and since she was from Dragonboat, we decided to name our Tribe the Dragon Tribe. We were given newspaper to design our tribe clothings(mainly for the tribe leader), and a flag to design for our tribe. Also, we were required to come up with a short skit to show the "history" of our tribe.

We were deciding on what to draw on our tribe flag
21 guns(21 of us). Before starting with designing the flag etc.

Me, playing with the stick While planning for our skit and all, Our dearest trip leader Mr Joseph Loh was looking and laughing at us!
Cool dustbin we saw!
The 3 china locals incharge of our activities
Xanier, our tribe leader all dressed up and ready!
[Yellow paper shows]: Long Tou(Dragon head)
After having done our first team-bonding activity, we went off to another activity called trust fall. Whereby one of us will be pushed off a platform back first. Below the platform would be the rest of us, prepared to catch the person being pushed off the platform. After that was rock climbing, followed by high element. Whereby we had to climb up high, and jump from a plank of wood to another plank of wood a short distance away.
(Pictures are not in order, captions above as usual).

Me, climbing up the rock wall
The wall was tough! No one reached the top :(
Dragon Tribe!(MDE)
After rock climbing, we had to clear the mats!
OIP 3rd Batch @ Wuhan, WUST
(MDE,LSCT,ICT)
MDE group picture!
High element activity!
(The 2 planks are shown there)

Getting ready to receive the person falling!Group B: Daniel, Yoke May, Edy, Me(Left to right)
with the Dragon Tribe flag(drawn by adrian)
at the bottom of the rock wall!
After a long tiring day, all our arms were sore from climbing and catching people. But none the less, we all had lots of fun! We packed up and left the place for dinner! We crossed the road to a famous fishball restaurant(No pictures unfortunately). After that we headed back to our hostels. When we reached our hostels, we went to each others room to play for a bit before we got tired and headed to bed.
So thats all for day 23, day 24 coming right up!

REFLECTIONS FOR THE DAY!
From today, i have learnt that encouragement and cheering for someone really pushes them to their limits and makes them not want to give up. When i was climbing the rockwall, my friends were cheering me on, and it really made me not want to let go. However, my arms couldn't take my weight anymore and eventually i did. But before i let go, i did push myself as much as i could. Thus in future if i see anyone feeling stressed or struggling with anything, i would probably try my best to encourage them! :)

Also, from the trust fall actiity, i really placed my all my trust in my friends who were preparing to receive me when i fall. I'm glad they caught me and i did not hit the ground. Thus I have learnt how to trust people around me more!


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