ET Breakaway Camp '07

Breakaway..I'm Living for you!
Breakaway..I'm Living for truth!

This camp is really a breakaway chance for me to really have fun and get to know more people. I could even know someone like Chao Han that is from other zone!

I was posted into Team Abraham for the camp. It was disappointing that I couldn't join the camp for the whole day throughout and staying over night. Oh ya.. The camp was held at Paya Lebar Methodist Girl's School. At first everyone will think that it is a small school but when I reached there with the guys, we were really amazed to see how big that school was!

Praise the Lord that I could bring a friend for the camp! His name is Nigel.
I knew this guy Online and only had met him a few times. Hopefully, he would be able to come with us again for cell group or for the Sunday service.

The first day was already exciting lor!
The first game we played was Bacteria and then we moved onto building a tower with NEWSPAPERS! ｶﾞ━━Σ(ﾟДﾟ|||)━━ﾝ!!

Aiya, our tower wasn't really strong lor but anyway I was glad to see Han Yong's Team Moses Tower was standing strong lol..

oh yah..! ookok.. Han Yong was Team Moses' Team Leader, Darwin was Team Noah's Team Leader, Jonathan Choo was Team Elijah's Team Leader. Shiok lah! Look! 3 Team Leaders from SA~! ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/

Back to topic, after the newspaper-tower thingy, was time to move onto our classrooms where we sleep at during the night. (Ahhh sian lah I didn't stay overnight)
Then after that was Lunch then it was Praise and Worship Afternoon session.

Nigel came along too and after the afternoon session, I asked him was he shocked when all of us spoke in tongues and he told me he was really shocked.
Luckily I remembered Edmund's sermon about sharing our own 1st encounter experiences with new friends, so I shared my experience about my 1st encounter in praise and worship session.

After all that was already 4~5pm plus and Nigel went home.
Ah too bad he didn't stay for the evening session, it was refreshing!
I'm glad to see new friends and those kids shouting out loud to praise God and jumping like never before!

After that was already the normal games such as "Win, Lose or Draw" ,"Spider Web" , some sabotouching game that involves pouring of mixtures of flour, egg, etc together, Captain Ball (net ball?).

Oh ya, the captain ball was really imba (imbalanced) lor! We got Guo Jun as our opponent and he was like.. 1 head 1 neck taller than me(175cm)!

During the evening session they told us our results for the first day, Team Abraham was last 3rd. It was really shocked to see our team to be the last 3rd. However, Serene (Team Abraham Leader) kept on encouraging us not to give up!

Then it was already night time, dinner time! And comes Julius joining us for Dinner.
Julius was really funny lor, his jokes are really cold but really super funny! o(>▽<)o

I went to the bus stop at around 11 and reached the Kovan MRT at 11.25PM !! Luckily I reached there just on time for the last train towards Harbor Front.
I reached home at around 11.40PM and I was.. REALLY REALLY GLAD to not see my mom at home! I quickly throw my clothes into the washing machine and prepare to bathe so that when my mom comes home, she won't really know that I went out!
WAKAKAKAKA ψ(｀∇´)ψ

The next day, I woke up at 7.20AM, it was really tiring for me and I was kinda reluctant to go but! I still did went for the 2nd day after all.

When I reached there, I thought the "Spartan Exercise" was already over, but to my surprise, when I reached there(8AM) all of them just woke up. AHHH! And it was Spartan Exercise lor.

Run 2 rounds around their stadium.. Less than 2KM and Isaac was already dying. >_>;
After that was Break Fast! Fried Bee Hoon!
Next was the morning session and briefing for the day.

The first game was "ET Olympic"! The whole thing was funny lah.. The first person running have to hold a cup of water, then pass onto the 2nd person which must hold onto the cup of water and kick a ball and then pass all of it to the 3rd, then the 3rd have to pass everything to the 4th, 5th, 6th then the 8th person have to take everything together including a box under the feet and the 8th person have to slide the box together with the cup of water, soccer ball all the way to the finishing line.

The second game was about cooking. Using some camping cooking utensils lor, the kick was that all of the Teams have to bid for the food that is being auctioned. Each group are given "$500" (fake one lah) and each food/utensils/etc is auctioned at the starting price of $50.

Our team allied with Team Gideon and we shared money to buy! wakakaka but in the end, most teams allied together to buy the last item which was chocolate.

We didn't get it but we only had Cabbage! (´∩｀。)
However, when it was time to cook, every team trades with us with their part of the food with our piece of cabbage.

Team Abraham was lucky that Raymond came all of a sudden, we did the cooking and preparation and the presenting of the food to the whole camp.

While some of them was doing the cooking, Kenneth and a few of us went to did the water bombs, because after the cooking game was the water bomb game.

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The water bomb game! I tell you ah.. its super duper kuper guper luper yuper FUN
8 SA guys all allied together which was Team Abraham, Gideon, Moses, Ester, Elijah and Noah. 6 Teams allied together to attack 1 team. The aim of the game was to get as many ice cream sticks from the opponent. 2 Sticks at once only. All of us attacked Ravi's Team Jacob. His team's sticks were all gone within a few minutes. oh ya, the other aim of the game was keeping our armor bearers' cloth behind their backs dry.

1 piece of cloth of the armor bearer costs 50 points and 1 stick costs 1 point.
Altogether, Team Abraham got 143 points in total from the game! Previously we only had 65 points. So, 143 + 65 = 208 points!

After that was time for drama preparation. All of us really did a super impromptu script and skit lol. Everything was impromptu.
Overall, our drama was the 2nd in the camp.

To our surprise, Team Abraham was the 1st runner up and which was the 2nd in the camp! We were last 3rd! Jumped to 2nd! OMG~!~! ｶﾞ━━━━((；'ﾟ,д'ﾟ)━━━━━ﾝ !!

Team Abraham, I really thank you guys for the great experience in the camp. We all did well altogether and we all finally climbed up from the underdog. Really lor, it was really a great camp experience for us, not only having fun with the games, also having fun with the Lord with his presence.
I'm glad that all of us pulled through altogether, no matter how much work into our team, all of us did a great job, at least making a difference! I'm glad that our impromptu drama worked out and even got 2nd.

Jared really did a great job too, and all the cell group leaders of course. Everyone that took part in this camp indeed made a big difference in every single person's life lor. This camp is really a life changing experience. I'm gonna look forward for the next camp and I'm believing that I would be able to stay over night!!!!