Hello Guides!
As World Thinking Day is approaching, we had our World Thinking Day Celebration activities on Saturday! To start off, we had our Contingent Practice. Next, we had our virtual activities such as the Scavenger Hunt as well as the Formal Segment which was held all over Singapore. Last but not least, we also played Running Man!
Contingent Practice
This is so as to recap on the basic contingent drills in preparation for the upcoming World Thinking Day Contingent.
Reflection from a Year 2
During last Saturday's World Thinking Day celebration, we had contingent practice. It was also our first time as Year 2s trying out forming contingents and following commands from our seniors. On Saturday, we learnt about some basic commands such as "baris sedia" and "baris senang diri" and some more advanced commands such as "baris keluar baris". We learnt to follow the timings for the commands and tried our best to follow them during contingent practice. As we are not very familiar with contingent practice as we had just learned it, sometimes we were too slow in reacting to the commands. However, the seniors were still patient with us and taught us how to do it properly. We should learn from our mistakes and practice more whenever we can to improve our standard for contingent. We should also approach our seniors when we are not sure about something so that we can also grow and improve. Although Saturday's contingent practice was tiring, but we learned new things about Uniform Groups and marching, and throughout the learning we also had fun and it was an enjoyable process for all of us. I hope throughout our journey in Girl Guides we can learn more new things and also be able to improve and grow as move forward as a 团.
Reflection from a Year 3
On Saturday’s World Thinking Day celebration, we started off with practicing food drills for our contingent. We were initially quite confused and unfamiliar with the commands due to the fact that we did not practice any foot drills last year because of the Covid-19 situation. Hence, our seniors ran through the commands with us again, and we kept on practicing the steps. At first, we were not synchronised and our arms were not raised at 90 degrees. Also, initially, we could not differentiate between “ke kiri pusing” and “ke kanan pusing” and made many errors. After much practice, we could more or less get the commands and steps right, and our coordination improved slightly. Then, we proceeded to have the dry runs by forming the contingent with our seniors. We were a little uncertain about the foot drill steps, as the place we stood in the contingent was different from where we stood when we practiced as a batch earlier. Through the dry runs, we could get a better sense of what will happen on the actual day when we form our contingents. Although Saturday’s practice was short, it helped us to refresh our memory on the foot drill commands in preparation for our contingent on Thursday. Hence, I feel that this session was essential such that on the actual day, we will not get the steps wrong.
Virtual Scavenger Hunt
During this Scavenger Hunt, we were given several clues which would lead us to finding a place. The clues would include time frames, MRT stops and many more!
Reflection from a Year 2
The virtual Scavenger hunt was a great and fun way to let us know what World Thinking Celebration is about. Our seniors explained that usually, they would take the train to many different places in Singapore during the Scavenger Hunt. From the scavenger hunt, I got to know about new places which I have never heard of before. However, I was a little confused at the start as I was unsure if all the clues were for one place or each clue is for each place we were supposed to find. Although I did not manage to understand some of the clues, my kind seniors patiently explained to me. Hence, I feel that this Virtual Scavenger Hunt allowed me to interact more with my seniors. It was a fun and engaging activity as we were trying to solve the clues, and we felt really accomplished and happy when we managed to solve the clues. I feel that the emcees and everyone who planned the Virtual Scavenger Hunt were very creative to think up of the Virtual Scavenger Hunt and the clues for it too, making it so much fun! Besides, I really hope that the pandemic situation would be better so that we can have the actual Scavenger Hunt during World Thinking Day celebration, and I look forward to that interesting experience!
Reflection from a Year 3
During the World Thinking Day celebration last Saturday, we had a virtual Scavenger Hunt where we were tasked to find a place in Singapore that holds a significant value to us Guides, based on a few clues. I feel that the virtual Scavenger Hunt was a very memorable experience due to the fact that it was very different from the previous years’ celebrations since this year it has been made virtual. The Scavenger Hunt gave me the opportunity to sit down and to bond with my patrol as we could take turns to voice out what we think the possible answers may be, and this allowed us to engage in heartfelt discussion on World Thinking Day. Although this year, the COVID-19 situation has made it difficult for us to have a celebration just like the previous years, I am glad that I still had the opportunity to connect with other guides from all over the world through the treasure hunt and the live stream. Everyone was still able to be brought together through the activity and we all had the chance to enjoy the treasure hunt while reminiscing our journey in guides so far. Therefore, I feel that this year’s virtual treasure hunt has been a fruitful experience.
Virtual Formal Segment
During this segment, we got the chance to sing along to the World Thinking Day song and we also recited the Guides’ promise. Furthermore, we received well wishes from Girl Guides all over the world which made it very heartwarming.
Reflection from a Year 2
This year’s World Thinking Day celebration was, in a way, more muted because of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and as such, some of the celebrations were held online. It was also the first World Thinking Day celebration that I experienced, with last year’s being cancelled because of Covid-19. Nevertheless, it was quite an interesting and fun day to celebrate with other fellow guiders. The virtual segment I found was very innovative and creative as it managed to come up with meaningful and fun videos for me to learn, as a relatively new Guide compared to the other seniors, what the normal celebrations would be like. For the World Thinking Day video, due to the safe management measures, we could not sing the World Thinking Day song.The organisers were creative in a sense that they used placards to show the lyrics of the song. It was very exciting to try it out too. Lastly, I thought it was heartwarming for the guides from all over the world to also wish us "Happy World Thinking Day". The celebrations this year had to be muted this year because of the pandemic, however, I still felt that it was very meaningful and worthwhile to recall.
Reflection from a Year 3
I found the World Thinking Day 集合 enjoyable as we got to participate in an event with so many other guides from around the world and from other schools. This year, I also found it quite unusual compared to previous world thinking days as we did the activities online through a live stream. I find the original World Thinking Day events more meaningful as it is the standard practice on the day, but i still enjoyed this year’s one. I loved the video with guides from around the world as I never thought they were so many different places with guides. Singing the World Thinking Day song and learning the goal of guides was inspiring as I learnt that we aim to give girls around the world a chance to shine and learn together. I also learnt the value of the World Thinking Day pennies as I never knew they supported such a big organisation that helped to improve the lives of so many others. Through this segment, I better understand the meaning of being a Girl Guide and the values which we uphold wearing our uniform. Overall, it was a memorable learning experience.
Running Man
We hope that through this game of Running Man, we would all get to forge closer bonds with our CCA mates and have lots of fun!
Reflection from a Year 2
On Saturday, we had our World Thinking Day celebration in the lecture theatre. Through the celebration, we not only were able to bond as a patrol and also learned even more about Girl Guides. Next, we had the Running Man game to end the day. We played three rounds of it. Running Man is played with everyone getting one piece of scotch tape and having to place it on their shoulder. When one gets her scotch tape taken off, she will have to go down to answer a Guides’ question and get a new one. It was a very fun game even though we lost. With the lack of manpower, we had to strategise. This game also taught us how to 照顾好人 and not leave anyone behind. We also revised many of our guides laws and knowledge which was helpful. As a result of losing, we had to perform maboleh as a result of losing but it was very funny but we also managed to bond together as a result of it. The Running Man game was fun but also reinforced our concept of 照顾好人和东西 and guides knowledge. Overall, we really enjoyed the day as it was really fun. We really look forward to the next world thinking day!
Reflection from a Year 3
The Running Man game we played during the World Thinking Day celebration was extremely fun, and we were able to bond as a patrol as well as enjoy ourselves. The game is played by having a duct tape stuck to our sleeve and if it got pulled off by the other patrols, we would have to go down to answer questions to get a new one. We tried to strategise, but due to our lack of manpower, we were outnumbered and unable to defend ourselves well against the other patrols. We could have strategised better instead of going ahead with the game as playing without a definite plan, as this would have increased our chances of winning. Sticking together would have also helped us as the other patrols usually took advantage of us not being together and “attacked” us. Even if we did not win, I still found that we could bond as a patrol through this activity. We also refreshed our knowledge about guides by answering the questions. Overall, it was a very fun game and we hope that we can get the chance to play it again.
We hope that everyone had fun during today’s World Thinking Day celebration activities and managed to learn something new and interesting about Girl Guides! Last but not least, Happy World Thinking Day my fellow Guides!
Published by:
Cefina
52届 Secretary
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