Back from Motivational Camp
Sunday, May 1, 2011 @ 9:38 PM
Yesterday, i came back from the motivational camp. In conclusion, i was hardly motivated. This camp is more of a leadership camp than a motivational camp. Personally, the games they organised aren't that bad but it does not fit the motive of being a motivational camp. The workshop is the only thing that i feel it motivating me. And i do learn something from the workshop and i felt enlighten by what the speaker had said. Most probably, motivational camp has to come from workshops but in this camp, there is only one workshop which most probably make it insufficient for such camp. If someone ask me whether i enjoyed myself, i might most probably say maybe. Firstly, i was bitten my mosquitoes all over which is something i expected but i didn't know it will be this bad. Secondly, in the morning of the second day, i was desperately hoping to go home which shows how much i want to leave the place. Thirdly, once i came back to Singapore, even when the wind blew across, i thought it was a mosquito and started to scratch here and there. Really terrible. Well, maybe because i am badly spoilt by the great environment in singapore without mosquitoes and when i get to malaysia which has a lot of mosquitoes, i just start to grumble. However, comparing this campsite to the rest of the campsite i ever went to, this is considered one of the best (other than the mosquitoes). It has beds which are quite comfortable and the food is fine. Also, among the 3 activities, casualty challenge and the kite making were the best. Casualty challenge requires teamwork among members and the activities are quite similar to the ones we had during the secondary 3 camp so maybe that's why we managed to get on quite fast. Kite flying was a pair work by me and jolyn. We had to make a kite and it was quite a failure. After making the kite, we had to fly it. I released it and jolyn ran with it hopefully it will fly. But it failed. We tried a lot of times, and failed as many times but we kept of laughing and laughing at our failures. We tried to modify it until it will succeed but not a single try succeed and sadly, we don't have that many tries, therefore we just have to give up since the activity has ended. Well, the camp fire was not that high compared to the secondary 3 one. Maybe due to time constraint. If there was more time, the camp fire might have been better. This camp isn't a total failure but i feel that it does not meet the purpose of being a motivational camp. Maybe there should be more workshops so that the camp will be more motivating to the secondary 4 and 5 students who are facing their o levels.