Hello guides! (:
Today is Thinking Day! A day where we guides all around the world celebrate the founding of the guiding movement by Lady Baden Powell. We 集合-ed at 7am at the parade square in our guides uniform. After attire checks, we formed out contigent, sang the national anthem and raised our world flag with pride.
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Afterwards we had our first 集合 with our new 50 届, batch of year ones! We welcomed them into our 团 with them joining their new patrols. We then had patrol corner for 10 minutes where the patrol leaders introduced the year ones to some of the basic etiquettes of guides, including 集合礼节s as well as standard attire. Afterwards was station games! The patrols would go in the following order:
P1 Bougainvillea will travel in Stations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
P2 Ixora will travel in Stations 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1
P3 Jasmine will travel in Stations 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2
P4 Orchid will travel in Stations 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3
P5 Sunflower will travel in Stations 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4
P6 Morning Glory will travel in Stations 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
After every station, they will get a clue which will lead them to the
location of the next station. They were then given a puzzle piece at the end of
each station!
Station 1: Marker and Paper
How to play:
2 pieces of
paper will be pasted on the ground and a marker tied to 8 strings will be
provided. Patrols will be split into half. With each patrol member holding the
tip of the string, the patrol will be asked to write the words “Girl Guides”
and “Be Prepared”.
Station 2: Flip the Cup
How to play:
Cups will be
filled equally with plain water. Standing in a line, each person of the patrol
has to drink the water in the cup and place the cup upright on the canteen
table. They will then have to flip the cup with a finger so that it become
upside down. Only when the cup is flipped, then the next person can start
drinking the water and so on. Vice versa is feasible as well.
Station 3: Jumping Rope
How to play:
2 jumping ropes
made by connecting 麻绳 together will be provided. With the
patrol split into half, each half would need to join the line and jump for (the
number of patrol members in each patrol) times. Both groups would have to
succeed before proceeding to the next station.
Station 4: Act It Out!
How to play:
The patrol has
10 minutes to guess as many charades as possible. Every 2 minutes, the person
guessing the word has to be changed. The people acting out cannot say the taboo
words.
Words/Phrases:
1.
Milking a cow
2.
K-Pop Girl Group
3.
Couch Potato
4.
Family Reunion
5.
Shopping at the mall
6.
Hailing a taxi
7.
Kungfu
8.
Building a sandcastle
9.
Moonwalk (Michael Jackson)
10.
Slam dunk
11.
Cheerleader
12.
Piano
13.
Bear attack
14.
Banana peel
15.
Earthquake
Station 5: Back-to-Back Drawing
How to play:
The patrol will
stand in a line facing the back of the person in front. The station master will
whisper a word and she has to draw it. Each person has 15 seconds to draw.
After she is done, she will show the next person for 5 seconds and she has to
draw the picture. This continues until the last person and she has to guess
what the picture is about. The patrol
has to answer correctly at least 4 times within 10 minutes.
Things that can be drawn:
1.
Kangaroo
2.
One Direction
3.
Abs
4.
High School Musical
5.
Girl Guides
6.
Bob the Builder
7.
Patrick (from Spongebob)
8.
Snapchat
9.
Fireworks
10.
Hippopotamus
11.
Doraemon
12.
Friendship
13.
Hole Puncher
14.
Eiffel Tower
15.
Chicken Little
Station 6: Are you model material?
How to play:
The patrol would
act out the 4 poses and take a photo together.
All of us were bubbling with excitement to meet our
new juniors, and formally introduce them to guides. I was quite shocked at the
fact that we had 27 Year One recruited into our cca, as it is a relatively big
number compared to the past years. For 集合, we had to play
games together as patrol, to facilitate ourselves to know the Year Ones better,
and I felt that the station games were inspiring yet fun as they forced us to
split up into groups, mixing around the batches to work together. There was
this sense of satisfaction when we managed to complete the task as a patrol
with the Year Ones! It was a little awkward interacting them as they were shy
around us, being the first time they met us, but we tried our best to make them
feel welcome and conversed with them as much possible. They, also attempted to
participate actively in the games and obediently listened to every instruction
given out by the seniors. We also learnt more about their primary school life
during the patrol corner, and hopefully opening up to us would be easier than
expected. Generally, we thought that they were very cute and I'm honestly quite
happy to have them as juniors. I hope they would get used to guides customs and
activities sooner, learn more skills and feel attached to our big family.
Afterwards, we all headed back to the General
Science lab where we had a short debrief and breakoff! We warmly welcome our
new juniors to our family of guides! Here’s wishing them all the best in their
future guiding journey!
Cheers,
Michelle
47th Batch Secretary
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