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24 January 2010

On Friday's jihe, we had roll call first at the general science lab area as the elavated court was occupied. After that, we were given 10 minutes to mass change into pe and bring along our compass and water bottles. My patrol's year 2s nearly exceeded the time given as we did not listen carefully to our year 3s instuctions. Then, we split into 4 combined patrols and had 'Fun Orienteering'.

Our first station was at the obs course. In our individual patrols, 1 person has to try to cross the monkey bars while the others ding boys style. We had 8 minutes to get as many people to cross as possible and try to get all the sweets sticked on the monkey bars. Then, we have to ding zhan ma and support 2 hei mu. Meanwhile, we will go out 1 by 1 to answer questions. many of us could not ding standard zhan ma and the year 4s had to frequently correct our positions.

For our second station, we are suppose to use the compass and find our way to the station masters with the given bearings. My patrol had no compass as ours had spoilt and we were unable to borrow 1. We got 20 pumpings for this mistake and learnt that in future, we should always check our equipment before jihes so we can have longer time to replace faulty ones.

However, my combined patrol was very unorganized during the orienteering process and we barely got pass the second orienteering instruction. We were not very familiar with using the compass as we did not read our notes. Eventually, the year 4s told us the destination for our second station. We were suppose to build a basha but 1 qingtou was being hidden and we had to find it using the trekking signs. We were misled a few times and took a rather long time to find the hidden qingtou. We were also unable to finish the basha so we should work faster in future as ample time was given. Then, we had to find pieces of a map and using the compass, find the place on the map with the instructions given.

Our third station was the poker cards station. We are suppose to memorize all the cards and flip them over in sequence. It was rather interesting watching everyone hyperventilating over whether they remembered the correct card. In the end, we took such a long time that the station master gave up and told us the correct places of the cards.

The final station was the Roman Chariot station. We had to tie the Roman Chariot in 6 minutes. But we not only guo shi, we also tied it the wrongly and the lashes were loose. After that, we had to transport a person for 6 laps around 1 side of the general science lab area.

Overall, our patrol spirits was rather high as we cheered alot and sang many patrol songs. :)

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