Hello fellow guides! On the 29th of April, we had our annual hike, and it was an amazing experience to say the least. Here are some reflections from the juniors, as well as a summary on what we did during the enjoyable hours spent at the Chinese Garden!
This is the map of Chinese Garden with the location of the stations labelled on it :-)
Station 1: Re-Creating Drama
Instructions:
Clips of the drama will be shown to you all and you all will have to split up and reenact each scene. You will be given 3 minutes to plan out how the scenes will flow and who will be acting out which scene. You all can do your own parody of the scene and be creative but try to make the idea relevant to the original clip. 集合 back in 3 minutes.
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You will now be given 15 minutes to film, be creative and express your feelings!:) 集合 back in 15 minutes.
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You will now be given 5 minutes to review your video, enjoy your efforts and hard work. (patrol to review their video and the video to be sent to them by station masters) You will now be given 3 minutes water break.
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This is the end of your station, hope you all had fun and a lot of laughter:) Good luck for the rest of your station.
Videos/clips to be shown:
Clips of the drama will be shown to you all and you all will have to split up and reenact each scene. You will be given 3 minutes to plan out how the scenes will flow and who will be acting out which scene. You all can do your own parody of the scene and be creative but try to make the idea relevant to the original clip. 集合 back in 3 minutes.
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You will now be given 15 minutes to film, be creative and express your feelings!:) 集合 back in 15 minutes.
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You will now be given 5 minutes to review your video, enjoy your efforts and hard work. (patrol to review their video and the video to be sent to them by station masters) You will now be given 3 minutes water break.
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This is the end of your station, hope you all had fun and a lot of laughter:) Good luck for the rest of your station.
Videos/clips to be shown:
The station master gave us a few clips from Chinese dramas and said that we had to join all those scenes into one story. It was hard to catch the words they were speaking in chinese and so we had to take note of the subtitles. We had to relate the story to guides, and also speak in chinese, so it was tougher than we thought. Although we spent quite some time thinking of the storyline and how to join the scenes together, we managed to pull a great act that was funny and related to guides. My favorite part was the last scene where we had to imitate sun wu kong's dying scene in one of the chinese dramas, when he obtained something essential before he died, which we made into a fellow patrol mate who was dying after she obtained a time extension. It was funny as we met with many retakes and laughing. All in all, it was a very memorable station.
Bonus: Since you all still have some extra time, you can create your own pose and take a picture of it as a patrol or use the pictures below as reference.
Part 2 - Three Two One Stop
Thoughts from a Year 3...
We had expected this station to be a PT station of some sort, but it turned out to be much more fun. The station master split us into 2 groups and gave us criteria to fulfil every round, such as a certain number of certain body parts being able to touch the ground. It really required quick thinking and creativity and it was entertaining to see everyone in awkward positions while trying to fulfil the given criteria. Next, everyone had to tie either a leg or a wrist to another person in the same group with 白绳 and the whole group would have to walk around the courtyard and find the white envelopes containing either nothing or a misfortune. It was challenging initially as we were extremely uncoordinated and the 白绳 kept coming undone, but we eventually managed to collect all the envelopes. Then, we had a choice between doing the misfortune forfeits there and then, or after the mass relay race. We chose to do it there as we wanted to get them over and done with, while being able to bond with one another at the same time. One of the forfeits was to take a picture with a living insect. We had trouble finding an insect at first as most of the insects could fly and did not stay long enough for a picture. We managed to find an ant and successfully took the photo, completing our forfeit. Overall, this station was really enjoyable as our patrol got to spend more time together, while being connected with nature.
Part 1
Thoughts from a Year 3...
For station 6, the patrol was split into two teams and what we did was use certain objects to hit a ping pong ball against the wall. For my team, we had to use a spatula to hit the ping pong ball. I think that it was quite comical as we found it pretty difficult to use a spatula to hit the ping pong ball and the different ways we tried to hit the ball was also quite funny. Unfortunately, my group only managed to hit the ball against the wall 4 times while the other group managed to hit the ball 11 times! This station taught me how to adapt to different circumstances and to make use of what there is to make the best out of a situation. When we feel challenged or intimidated because we have never tried something before, we should just try and learn from the new experience.
Instructions:
At this mass station, you will have to complete a relay race. Everyone is going to participate. There are a total of 10 checkpoints along the way. The starting point is a checkpoint also. For the last checkpoint, there must be at least 2 players. But for the rest of the checkpoints, there can be 1 or 2 players. Players from every patrol has to complete the small tasks at the checkpoint before passing the baton over to the next runner. The finishing line is at the main gate of Chinese garden. By the time the last person in your patrol is going to finish, everyone has to be back at the main gate. While the participant from the patrol is completing her task, the rest of the patrol members who have completed their run will support her at the sides but cannot help.Time is the deciding factor in the race. The patrol using the least amount of time to finish the whole race will win the whole game. The attacking power (ice-creams) accumulated by each patrol helps by cutting the patrol’s overall time taken. You have to show the ICs - Xin Jie and Xiao Tong the number of ice-cream sticks you patrol possesses. Patrols with misfortune cards have to complete their tasks on the card at the finishing line. Please note that time to complete the tasks on the misfortune cards will also be counted. Patrols with opportunity cards are allowed to use each opportunity card once.
Checkpoints:
Station 2: Memory Bingo
Instructions:
You will be given 5 minutes to go around the garden of abundance and memorise the characteristics of each zodiac animal as much as you can. 集合 back in 5 minutes.
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You will be given 2 bingo cards. You will then be split into 2 groups and you will be given 5 minutes to write down the characteristics of each animal you all remember in the bingo cards however you like, but the characteristics written must have the corresponding zodiac animal written down too in the same boc. We will then give the characteristics of the zodiac animals in Guides code one at a time. Solve the Guides code and you will have to tick the characteristics that you have on the bingo cards if you all wrote it down. Finish 5 lines to complete a card. The game will end in 10 mins.
Thoughts from a Year 3...
This was one of the stations were the most funny moments happened. It was pretty hilarious as we actually ended up calling 鼠 as mouse and 鸡 as chicken. In the end, my group lost and we had to do a forfeit of the other group's choice. We had to stand in front of the rooster statue and act like a chicken for 20 seconds while being filmed. Although it was embarrassing, seeing the seniors goofing around made up for it. I feel that we bonded a lot as a patrol through these funny moments.
Station 3: Games
Instructions:
You will all have to draw a slip of paper from a box that contains the logistic you all will be using to play ping pong. You will then have to use the logistics you have to hit the ball against the wall and continue to see how many times you all can hit consecutively, once the ball drops, the next patrol member will try. Everyone gets 3 tries. There can only be 2 people playing at any one point of time. Once everyone gets to try, 集合 back in 10 minutes. (Station master to take the average score of the patrol and make sure one patrol mate counts the score for each of the members playing)
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You will now be given 5 minutes to play a game. So you will have to start by sitting on the floor, then one of you will have to stand and shout ‘1’, then 2 people have to stand at the same time and shout ‘2’ and so on and so forth. However, once one of the number of people standing at the same time either exceeds or does not amount to the number shouted out, you all will have to restart. You will have to play this game until the number of people standing equals to the number that is shouted out or until the time is up. Remember that the people standing cannot be next to each other for the first 5 rounds.
Forfeit:
You will be given 5 minutes to go around the garden of abundance and memorise the characteristics of each zodiac animal as much as you can. 集合 back in 5 minutes.
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You will be given 2 bingo cards. You will then be split into 2 groups and you will be given 5 minutes to write down the characteristics of each animal you all remember in the bingo cards however you like, but the characteristics written must have the corresponding zodiac animal written down too in the same boc. We will then give the characteristics of the zodiac animals in Guides code one at a time. Solve the Guides code and you will have to tick the characteristics that you have on the bingo cards if you all wrote it down. Finish 5 lines to complete a card. The game will end in 10 mins.
Thoughts from a Year 3...
This was one of the stations were the most funny moments happened. It was pretty hilarious as we actually ended up calling 鼠 as mouse and 鸡 as chicken. In the end, my group lost and we had to do a forfeit of the other group's choice. We had to stand in front of the rooster statue and act like a chicken for 20 seconds while being filmed. Although it was embarrassing, seeing the seniors goofing around made up for it. I feel that we bonded a lot as a patrol through these funny moments.
Station 3: Games
Instructions:
You will all have to draw a slip of paper from a box that contains the logistic you all will be using to play ping pong. You will then have to use the logistics you have to hit the ball against the wall and continue to see how many times you all can hit consecutively, once the ball drops, the next patrol member will try. Everyone gets 3 tries. There can only be 2 people playing at any one point of time. Once everyone gets to try, 集合 back in 10 minutes. (Station master to take the average score of the patrol and make sure one patrol mate counts the score for each of the members playing)
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You will now be given 5 minutes to play a game. So you will have to start by sitting on the floor, then one of you will have to stand and shout ‘1’, then 2 people have to stand at the same time and shout ‘2’ and so on and so forth. However, once one of the number of people standing at the same time either exceeds or does not amount to the number shouted out, you all will have to restart. You will have to play this game until the number of people standing equals to the number that is shouted out or until the time is up. Remember that the people standing cannot be next to each other for the first 5 rounds.
Forfeit:
- 4 tries : 1 round of maboleh together with a visitor
- 5 tries: 1 round of chek chek goleh
- 6 tries: 1 round of father abraham
- 7 tries: 1 round of ging gang goolie
- 8 and more tries: 2 rounds of 团歌
Bonus: Since you all still have some extra time, you can create your own pose and take a picture of it as a patrol or use the pictures below as reference.
Picture 1:
Picture 2:
Picture 3:
Picture 4:
Thoughts from a Year 3...
Station three was the last station for our patrol. We were tasked to use instruments to hit ping pong balls against a wall at least 3 times each. The random instruments our patrol used were 2 tongs and 1 spatula. Beverly managed to hit the ping pong ball against the wall the most number of times. I guess this station was one of the most interesting as there was this chinese lady who seemed to be a tourist who joined in and played with us. We even took pictures together with her too. Personally, I enjoyed this station the most as I felt that this was a station which 'generated' the most amount of laughter and smiles for every member of the patrol.
Station 4: Know your Body Better
Instructions:
For this station, there are 2 parts to be completed.
Part 1 - I Say You Do
For the first part, it is called the “I Say You Do”. You will be split into 2 groups to conduct the activities together. Each group must have a well -mixed year 1s, 2s, 3s and 4s. You will be required to have a certain number of feet, hands or butts on the ground. For every round, you are provided with 30 seconds to react and decide on your formations. The difficulty level increases as time passes. Overall, you have 10 minutes for this part of the station.
20 Sets:
For this station, there are 2 parts to be completed.
Part 1 - I Say You Do
For the first part, it is called the “I Say You Do”. You will be split into 2 groups to conduct the activities together. Each group must have a well -mixed year 1s, 2s, 3s and 4s. You will be required to have a certain number of feet, hands or butts on the ground. For every round, you are provided with 30 seconds to react and decide on your formations. The difficulty level increases as time passes. Overall, you have 10 minutes for this part of the station.
20 Sets:
- 28 feet (varies: the number of people in the patrol x 2), 5 hands
- 24 feet, 2 hands
- 20 feet, 18 hands
- 19 feet, 20 hands
- 16 feet, 3 hands
- 18 feet, 1 butt
- 15 feet, 4 butts
- 17 feet, 6 butts
- 19 feet, 3 butts
- 14 feet, 10 hands
- 18 feet, 1 hand, 6 butts
- 12 feet, 2 hands, 10 butts
- 18 feet, 1 knee, 1 hand
- 16 feet, 5 butts, 3 knees
- 13 feet, 5 knees, 5 butts
- 10 feet, 4 butts, 2 hands
- 10 feet, 3 butts, 2 legs
- 9 feet, 3 butts, 3 hands
- 4 feet, 6 butts, 6 knees
- 6 feet, 4 butts, 5 knees
Part 2 - Three Two One Stop
For this part, you will form groups of 4-5 with wrists and ankles tied together. You are given 6 minutes to collect as many envelopes as possible. Each envelope contains a card that can be an opportunity or misfortune, or nothing at all. The opportunity cards will be useful in the mass station. But for the misfortune cards, you have to accomplish whatever tasks on it either in the mass station or at the last minute of the time given (which is after 5 minutes). The station master will constantly say “Three two one stop”. On the word “stop”, everyone is to stop whatever you are doing, remain in the last posture. If one person in your group moves a little, the entire group has to restart from the starting line.
10 envelopes along the way: 6 with nothing and 2 misfortune and 2 opportunity cards
10 envelopes along the way: 6 with nothing and 2 misfortune and 2 opportunity cards
- Misfortune Card 1 - Take a photo with a living insect
- Misfortune Card 2 - Say ten times rapidly: “Three big blobs of a black bug’s blood”
- Opportunity Card 1 - Ask a year 4 to replace you in your task
- Opportunity Card 2 - Skip the task
Thoughts from a Year 3...
We had expected this station to be a PT station of some sort, but it turned out to be much more fun. The station master split us into 2 groups and gave us criteria to fulfil every round, such as a certain number of certain body parts being able to touch the ground. It really required quick thinking and creativity and it was entertaining to see everyone in awkward positions while trying to fulfil the given criteria. Next, everyone had to tie either a leg or a wrist to another person in the same group with 白绳 and the whole group would have to walk around the courtyard and find the white envelopes containing either nothing or a misfortune. It was challenging initially as we were extremely uncoordinated and the 白绳 kept coming undone, but we eventually managed to collect all the envelopes. Then, we had a choice between doing the misfortune forfeits there and then, or after the mass relay race. We chose to do it there as we wanted to get them over and done with, while being able to bond with one another at the same time. One of the forfeits was to take a picture with a living insect. We had trouble finding an insect at first as most of the insects could fly and did not stay long enough for a picture. We managed to find an ant and successfully took the photo, completing our forfeit. Overall, this station was really enjoyable as our patrol got to spend more time together, while being connected with nature.
Station 5: Patrol Picnic
Instructions:
Part 1
As the name of the station suggests, you will be taking some refreshments in this station. But before that, you have to get the food and drinks yourself. Hence, there are two parts in this station. For the first part, you will play the “Three two one stop” game. There are 10 cups of drinks along the way. Some of you will not get the drinks. The entire patrol have to choose whether you want to share drinks with the person or take a misfortune card in order to get a cup of drinks. You can complete the tasks on the misfortune cards on the spot or during mass station later on. All of you have to start from the same line, to grab the cup of drink for yourself. When the station master says “Three two one stop”, nobody is allowed to move. If you move, you have to go back to the starting line and restart. Once you get your cup of drinks, go back and 集合 while waiting for the rest of your patrol members. You will have 5 minutes to get a drink for yourself.
Part 2
You have 5 minutes to eat, drink and rest.
Order of the snacks put onto the groundsheet: Potato chips, Want Want rice crackers, Seaweed, Biscuit stick, Oreo, Mamee Noodle Snack.
After they have finished, ask them the order of the snacks putting onto the groundsheet. 2 minutes is given to come out with the answer.
Thoughts from a Year 3...
At station 5, we had a patrol picnic. Overall, the station was fun and much more relaxing than the rest of the stations. At first, we had to climb up the pagoda as a patrol to collect our drinks but as there wasn't enough,we could either share the drinks among ourselves or do a forfeit. We chose to share the drinks and it was nice as sharing is caring and we were willing to share despite being thirsty. On the other hand, if we had chosen to do the forfeit, I think that it would have taught us to be more daring and step out of our comfort zone. The time spent eating together really helped us to be closer as a patrol as we do not usually have much time to sit down and talk during 集合s and I think the time spent together at station 5 was really treasured and appreciated. All in all, although all we did was eat, drink and talk, I think we all really enjoyed the station.
Station 6: Our Times
Instructions:
This station consists of 2 parts. The first part is charade.
This station consists of 2 parts. The first part is charade.
Part 1
For this part, you will be divided into 2 teams. Each team must have a well mix of different levels. For each team, a word or a line either in Chinese or English will be given to the first person while the rest of you will be facing backwards. The first person has to act out to let the second person see, so and so forth. Everyone is given 30 seconds to act out for the next person. At the end of 30 seconds, the next person has another 10 seconds to internalise what she has seen. If you are the last person, you will have to act out in front of everyone what you get from the previous teammate and guess the word or the sentence. Take note that the acting person cannot speak at all. And after you are done with acting, you cannot hint the person who are guessing. Each team has 2 rounds for this part. All the words and lines are related to Guides.
Team 1:
For this part, you will be divided into 2 teams. Each team must have a well mix of different levels. For each team, a word or a line either in Chinese or English will be given to the first person while the rest of you will be facing backwards. The first person has to act out to let the second person see, so and so forth. Everyone is given 30 seconds to act out for the next person. At the end of 30 seconds, the next person has another 10 seconds to internalise what she has seen. If you are the last person, you will have to act out in front of everyone what you get from the previous teammate and guess the word or the sentence. Take note that the acting person cannot speak at all. And after you are done with acting, you cannot hint the person who are guessing. Each team has 2 rounds for this part. All the words and lines are related to Guides.
Team 1:
- Guides 不是跑就是飞
- Knock It Down
Team 2:
- Attire check
- 全团集合
Bonus (if there is extra time)
- Ask for time extension
- Mass change
- 报时
- Outdoor cooking
Part 2
For this part, you will have to split into 2 teams again, different from just now. Each team must have a well mix of year ones, twos, threes and fours. At the start, you are to choose 3 slips of paper from the ziploc bag, each paper containing a Guides song. Your task is to sing our Guides song, only when the station master points at you or when the station master does the sign to signal everyone singing together. If one one person in your team fails to sing out at correct times, you have to restart again. In total, every team has 3 challenges which are the 3 songs you choose at the start. For each challenge, you only have 3 minutes to complete. At the end of the 3 minutes, you have to switch to the next challenge.
Songs to choose:
For this part, you will have to split into 2 teams again, different from just now. Each team must have a well mix of year ones, twos, threes and fours. At the start, you are to choose 3 slips of paper from the ziploc bag, each paper containing a Guides song. Your task is to sing our Guides song, only when the station master points at you or when the station master does the sign to signal everyone singing together. If one one person in your team fails to sing out at correct times, you have to restart again. In total, every team has 3 challenges which are the 3 songs you choose at the start. For each challenge, you only have 3 minutes to complete. At the end of the 3 minutes, you have to switch to the next challenge.
Songs to choose:
- My Bonnie
- Peace like a river
- Three Little Ducks
- 马车夫之恋
- Cannibal King
- Rock-a My Soul
- Jamaican Farewell
- Gako the Frog
- Gingerbread
- 南屏晚钟
- Titanic
- Silvery Moon
- Moonlight Bay
- 抓泥鳅
- Guiding Light
Thoughts from a Year 3...
For station 6, the patrol was split into two teams and what we did was use certain objects to hit a ping pong ball against the wall. For my team, we had to use a spatula to hit the ping pong ball. I think that it was quite comical as we found it pretty difficult to use a spatula to hit the ping pong ball and the different ways we tried to hit the ball was also quite funny. Unfortunately, my group only managed to hit the ball against the wall 4 times while the other group managed to hit the ball 11 times! This station taught me how to adapt to different circumstances and to make use of what there is to make the best out of a situation. When we feel challenged or intimidated because we have never tried something before, we should just try and learn from the new experience.
Station 7: Relay Battle (Mass station)
Instructions:
At this mass station, you will have to complete a relay race. Everyone is going to participate. There are a total of 10 checkpoints along the way. The starting point is a checkpoint also. For the last checkpoint, there must be at least 2 players. But for the rest of the checkpoints, there can be 1 or 2 players. Players from every patrol has to complete the small tasks at the checkpoint before passing the baton over to the next runner. The finishing line is at the main gate of Chinese garden. By the time the last person in your patrol is going to finish, everyone has to be back at the main gate. While the participant from the patrol is completing her task, the rest of the patrol members who have completed their run will support her at the sides but cannot help.Time is the deciding factor in the race. The patrol using the least amount of time to finish the whole race will win the whole game. The attacking power (ice-creams) accumulated by each patrol helps by cutting the patrol’s overall time taken. You have to show the ICs - Xin Jie and Xiao Tong the number of ice-cream sticks you patrol possesses. Patrols with misfortune cards have to complete their tasks on the card at the finishing line. Please note that time to complete the tasks on the misfortune cards will also be counted. Patrols with opportunity cards are allowed to use each opportunity card once.
Checkpoints:
- (Starting line) Each player chooses one table tennis ball from the box. Each ball has a number on it, representing the number of rounds they have to turn on the spot. Numbers on the table tennis ball: 7,7,8,8,9,9. After that, they will run to the next runner to pass over.
- Skipping ropes (20 times)
- Bounce shuttle cock on the badminton racket 20 times continuously without dropping the ball
- Hop with one leg to the next checkpoint
- Keep the chapteh in the air for 5 times
- Give a one-minute talk about Chinese
- Walk around and give every guide you see a smile until they reply you with a smile
- Sing the chorus part of 3 kpop songs
- Win scissors paper stone against station master five times consecutively
- 3-legged race towards the finishing line with table tennis ball on the racket
With that, we concluded our annual hike! It was indeed a fun-filled day at the Chinese Garden, and every patrol undoubtedly bonded with each other to become even closer! For the Year 4s, it was our last hike, but it was definitely the most enjoyable :-)
Photos of patrols:
Photos of patrols:
Published by:
Chen Wei
48th Bath Secretary
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