EMERGE '08

FRANCE EMERGED CHAMPS!!!!!!
I LOVE YOU KIDS! :)

LYNN'S BACK FROM CAMP EMERGE'08! 14/6-15/06. it was the most meaningful camp ever, being able to take care of so many kids and the kids are real cute i shld say! moreover, FRANCE WONNNNN!!!! HAPPY!!
14/6 Preparing and getting ready to set off!





let me intro my mentee :) he's SHAUN :)

yayy! we reached :)

got into our icebreaking groups :) and here's our darling athena and wenting!

and we see jinhan, chengyi, mengsoon, bryan, brandon and christopher (left to right)

look at what our dear boy brandon is doing! haha colouring the FRANCE flag!

and the two girls wilingly carrying my bag my me haha. so cute!

there! our dorm! 've been here before so nothing much :)

LOOK AT HER! doesn't she look very JAP!!!? *stares at her hair* haha.

LUNCH TIME :) but the poor me had to take vegetarian cause of my SPECIAL DIET.

games time! the games felt like some typical orientation games but we enjoyed it thoroughly! definitely!

this was the first game! captain's ball with balloon filled with H2O ! it was super heavy and it was super amusing looking at the kids play! haha.

i'm really happy. when we were playing the games it seemed as though we were rather slow and weak in our cheers but nevertheless the kids tried their very best and it was really a feeling of great satisfaction when we know that we were champions :) there was this specific game that left a very lasting impression on me. we were suppose to fill up a bottle of water to a specific mark using a cloth. meaning dipping a piece of cloth into water and it will be passed through everyone and last, the bottle. we're supposed to squeeze the water into the tiny opening of the bottle. it was very difficult at first but somebody thought of a very smart idea which is using a blade of leaf, fold it into a funnel like thing and use it. increased surface area to volume ratio i guess :) everyone was soooo co-operative during this game. it was then i realised how great teamwork we had. everyone was trying their best to get every single drop into that bottle. we managed to fill to the mark in the end although it seemed impossible at first. totally cool.

i'm definitely gna be part of CDAC childrens' camp again next year. it's a great feeling being a volunteer. to those out there, when you do something for others, you bring smiles to others :) be a volunteer today! :)

OH I FORGOT TO ADD THAT A FELLOW VOLUNTEER MISTOOK ME AS A KID TWICEEEEEE. sadness.

my life's not that bad afterall :)