Hello Guides! We Year 2s did our best in this year's Honours Day Contingent, and let us tell you all about it!
Reflection from a Year 2 in P2：
Before honours day, we had a few sessions of rehearsals. I had missed the first session of rehearsals thus I was very scared for the second session of rehearsal as was very scared of messing up and not being able to be in the sync with others, thus I made sure to check with my batchmates on what they had practiced on the first session and had a rough idea on how it would be like. During the second honours day rehearsal, we had strict attire check. I then realised that my scarf was done badly and had to have bigger diamonds and have less creases. I also had not sewed on my buttons to clip my scarf in place thus i had to sew them on in place before the actual day. We practiced the drills and I was able to keep up thanks to the help of my batchmates. Towards the end of the session, they asked for a volunteer reserve guide and I volunteered as I was not very confident in myself and thought the others could do better and they had for for one more session than me.The last rehearsal was on honours day itself. We had multiple run throughs with the drills. We had another round of strict attire check and this time had my buttons sewed in and tried my best to prepare a good scarf with big diamonds. In the last run through, there was a sudden change in the formations and I was put back into the contingent. Thankfully I practiced with them when I was a reserve so I knew what to do. The actual honours day contingent came and I think we all did really well. I learnt to be more confident and believe in myself more.
Reflection from a Year 2 in P3：
This was the actual day of the Honours Day Contingent. We were made to do drills over and over again for at least 3 sessions prior and I knew that this was an important occasion that everyone had spent lots of time and effort on, and that it would finally be over today. All four Uniform Groups were gathered on a Saturday morning, everyone looking neatly dressed in our uniforms for the occasion. However, I had left the house in a rush and ended up forgetting a badge that was supposed to be pinned on my uniform, and that sent me in a panicked state, asking around of what I should do. I was eventually saved when one Year 4 found an extra one for me. I was punished for leaving my badge at home and was told the importance of the badge, a reminder for me to take it seriously and to not make the same mistake of leaving it out again. We had a catered breakfast set which tasted quite good and we also ran a few last drills to ensure we were fully prepared. We had to stand for quite a while for one run so I was hoping we did not have to do too many runs. Finally, it was time for the actual Honours Day event that we had prepared and worked so hard for. I hoped really hard that I would be in sync with the others and not mess up any step. I listened extremely carefully for every command so as to not miss anything out or lag behind, and to my relief, everything went smoothly, just like the practices. We ended a little earlier and I could feel the air lighter once everything was over, as our hard work had finally paid off.
This was a very important session for us to train our Contigent Skills, and we definitely found it very different and more tiring than expected from our normal CCA sessions. Nonetheless, we will uphold our tradition of and take pride in forming the Contigent for more Honour Days to come!
Published by
Chan Zi Xuan
56th 届 Secretary
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