Hello, hope all of you have rested well after the three days at ATC.
During the past three days, I saw how the trainees pia hard and refusing to give up at the slightest pain, how they stood by each other and also the spirit from all the cheerings. Though they may not be doing that all the time (but it did improved day after day), but it certainly brought back much memories for me. Like how we used to be counting down the number of days spent at camp, trying to siam as much saigang as possible, always getting scolded by seniors and being constantly being kupped away by the seniors when we were those blur sec 1s.
Then very soon we became sec 2s ourselves, having to take good care of the sec 1s and assume the roles of leaders in the camp. Responsibilities grew and that also meant that when punishment comes, we have to do twice the amount of punishments. It has certainly made us more physically and mentally stronger given the hell that seniors often gave us. More importantly, the passion for guides grew stronger and the sense of belonging got stronger.
Suddenly, we became sec 3s and it was our time to plan for the camps and to stretch the potential of the juniors. That was a very special period of time because even though you get to torture the juniors at camp, your sec 4s will be there to torture you on the final day of the camp. Leaders always go the extra mile and being the planners meant working at the backstage without the trainees knowing, which thereafter led to juniors thinking that the sec 3s are slackers who only know how to torture the trainees. The extra mile these planners went to were often left unnoticed by the trainees.
In a flash of light, I went back to the camp as a status of a Young unit leader. The experience was yet another different one because we were once the ones who get freaked out during night games and now we are the one freaking people out. We were once the trainees getting pumped and now we were the ones giving punishments to them. We used to be the trainees praying for rain to come so that the camp programme gets affected and now we were the ones praying for sunshine everyday so that the trainees could get the maximum out from the activities planned for them.
I remember Mrs Chin once said: " For the first time, you are forgiveable. For the second time, you are teachable. For the third time, ARE YOU THICK-HEADED?!!!" I am glad to see that the repeats of mistakes got lesser each day and hope that those mistakes will be drilled into your head even after you step out of camp.
I am proud of all the guides have emerged into stronger guides. I am proud to see the level of enthusiasm grew stronger each day and how I saw more guides being more positive. Efficiency and morale got better each day. During the bus ride back to school, I saw so many cheerful smiles and happy interactions between trainees, I do hope that it was the bonds forged together during ATC and not solely because the camp has ended. More importantly, we mustn't stop there. No doubt the camp has ended, the bonds must never break. Use those bonds forged during camp to catalyse the process of finding love in guides and keep the passion burning!!
We may have different perspectives to offer, but essentially our destination in guides is all the same. Stumble and fall, it's the heart of it all. when you fall down, just try again. You can be what you wanna be if you possess the right attitude. To end off the post, I am dedicating the song by Darin Zanyar, Be What You Wanna Be to all of you here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payf0cAVAaY&feature=related
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Yr 5 Li Hui
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