DHS-psyCOYlogy!

Hi guides,

Last week, we had a special party to celebrate two things. Firstly, it was a party to welcome the year 1s into our family; secondly, we celebrated Chinese New Year together, once again reenforcing our strong ties to each other. It was truly a unique party where we bought the raw materials and tried our hand at making our own popiah. The following are reflections by 2 of our year 3s on the day's activity. :)

From P7:
For P7's patrol activity on Friday, the year 2s taught the year 1s to tie the square lash and diagonal lash, while the year 3s built a standard baggage rack. The year 2s got to revise their own skills and the year1s learned the basic skills required to build even more complicated gadgets.
For the baggage rack, we wasted a very long time tying the main frames and made quite a lot of mistakes like not tucking in the loose ends of the strings. However, we managed to finish it within 40 minutes. It was quite an accomplishment for us as we only had 2 people to tie.

Afterwards, we had the Popiah Party which was very fun as we got to make our own Popiahs. It was a unique experience for me as I had never made popiah before. The popiahs were really nice and filling and the feedbacks from everyone were really good. After the party, we cleared up and had patrol corner. It was really interesting as we got to know each other better, and bonded more as a patrol.

From P8:
Today, we had a patrol activity where the year 3s and 2s had to build a kitchen dresser and the year 4s taught the year ones how to tie lashes. We were given 45 minutes to tie the kitchen dresser and so we started off by tying two tripods. We had to re-tie one of the tripods as the lash was too loose but luckily we did not face the problem of unequal legs as we had supported it against a flat surface well enough. We then proceeded to measuring the tripod and tying the supports to it. After finishing the two completed tripods, we tied the diagonals below for stability. We realized that time was running out and so we sped up a little. When we wanted to tie the area where we were supposed to do our chopping and miscellaneous stuff, we realized that we needed more gadget poles. After retrieving them, we continued tying and finally got the basic shape there.

However, not only had we exceeded the time limit but we also did not manage to start netting due to our poor time management. We have learnt from this patrol activity that we must make sure all our lashes are tight, logistics all taken and make better usage of our time the next time. The year 4s and 3s proceeded to explaining to the year 1s the usage of the kitchen dresser. Then, we were given three minutes to untie everything and return all the logistics back to the guides’ room. After that, we ran to meet everyone at the canteen to have our Popiah Party.

we <3 guides