Dear Guides, here is a blogpost by a year2 on last week's activity :)
Last Friday’s jihe was very interesting- we had PT-cum-firelighting, we were tested on some first aid skills and the guides code as well.
P8 was combined with P7. Although my patrol was outnumbered at the first station, we still tried our best to intercept the ball when we played. The game was strenuous, and it definitely required us to be alert, focused and we had t make sure everyone coordinated. After every 5 minutes, we had to stop the game immediately and do 5 pumpings on the spot. The fastest person will then proceed to answer a question about firelighting which was tested by the station masters. In the end, my team lost, but we still had lots of fun at that station, and I believe the questions asked really tested whether we studied and understood our notes.
Our second station was outside the 3H classroom. We had to zhan ma at one end, and each time, there will be people taking turns to run out to a station master at the other end, where we would pick out a maximum of 3 very random words(e.g. big twigs, giraffe, ATC etc.) we had to form a storey involving the words that we picked. After around 10 minutes, someone was to volunteer and go the other end again, and she would have to do leg-raise. The rest of us had to commando crawl to her. We were then told that she got burnt in a fire, and her watch(represented by a roll of masking tape) had melted on her hand. We had 2 minutes to think of a way to help her, and our patrol was at lost. I feel that this should not be the way- we should not have taken for granted and just studied firelighting- instead; we should have been clear on our first aid too.
We then proceeded to our third station, which was at the pltc 09’ campsite. I was the PL for this station, where I had to give certain instructions. In this station, we had to dig a pit for outdoor cooking. We started off with PT first, where we had to do kallang wave pumping until 100. During the firelighting part, we had to dig a pit. It was my second time doing this, but it was a first for the year1s.
For our fourth station, we had to run up to the fifth storey balcony. The station masters required us to set up a fire using yuan zi lu and yuan zi la. We had to boil water after that and we had to ask for time extension. As the newspaper were not entirely wet, when we were jihe-ing, both patrols’ newspapers caught fire. Fortunately, the fire was put out in no time. it was indeed a lesson learnt, and we promised to be more careful next time. then for PT, we had to ding leg raise 90 degrees, and after each minute, we had to ding in 45 degrees for 10 seconds before returning back to 90 degrees again. This was to be done within 10 minutes. At the same time as well, each pair would take turns to run one round around the level.
At last, at our fifth station, we had to set up a fire using kindlings. My juniors were responsible and they picked the really dry kindlings, much to our favour. Thanks to them, our fire got set up really quickly and it did not extinguish at all. We took turns to keep the fire going, at the same time, we had to boil an egg. In this station, we could really see the patrol spirit. Helping to blow the fire no matter how breathless we already were, or even when we were tearing. Although there were only 4 of us, we were told that our fire was the best, compared to all the other patrols. This definitely made us feel very proud and we were very glad that our efforts had paid off.
This jihe has been really memorable for us, as well seldom had a chance to practice firelighting on normal Friday’s jihe. Also, we were able to build up our stamina as we trained hard during the PT. I believe all of us learnt many firelighting skills, especially the year1s. We were given chances to lead too, as preparation for future OJs and for ATC. I feel that we should have been more careful from now onwards and must not repeat the same mistakes. What was most important throughout the jihe was the bonding of our patrol mates and the patrol spirit!
Dhscoy <3
Jiayou guides!:)
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