Children's Society Camp

organised by emed - 5th to 7th december

As part of the emed main comm, i think i should feel a bit glad that the credits are rolling in finally when the job was done but i didn't. maybe it's cos i simply played a very minor supportive role (advertising, taking pictures and video) in the process. think got to know the main comm people a bit better esp laynee. funny person, that one, sometimes super lame.

the kids were fine; there were about 110 kids from various pri schs. some were very hyperactive, climbing all over the place like monkeys, disobeying the camp counsellors (CGLs), refusing to play the games allocated and making a fool of us; there were also the quiet ones who would just blindly follow the rest of the crowd, and refuse to have a single picture taken. The CGLs (excluding xinyi) were from SMU and rest of Science. Some were quite chio! haha. but most of them were quite friendly, i think i should have their faces in the footage.

however, the camp itself was quite boring. talks, whatever. no wonder the hyperactive ones felt a bit stunted. think they had some fun with our games (it's the last day), esp the thrill of making fun of about 20-30 nus pharmacy students. kudos to all who came down as GMs. and of course xinyi, who loves kids i suppose, for completing the near-impossible task of being simultaneous guardian of 10 crazy kids and being my model for free (though i was more interested in her CGL companion, haha).

Seeing all these kids really made me feel like going back to the days of primary school where the teacher was authority and friends, quarrels, homework and learning became a huge part of your life. Where we refused to hold hands with people of the opposite sex and treated them as some sacred beings which to stay away from. Where days of ting xie, spelling and mental sums surfaced to mind. Were i one of the quiet ones? I see some of my primary school friends assuming the roles of some of the kids and i smile to myself.

Suddenly, everything becomes all so familiar to me again.