Hello guides, hope that all of you have been resting well since friday :)

Tmr's ATC already, hope that all of you are prepared for it.
Remember to read your notes and sleep early tonight.

Jiayou! Yall can do it!

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Hey guides,

Friday was pre-camp inspection. We were given 20 mins to layout our stuffs in the classrooms. All of us were at a loss of what to do and we had to ask for a time extention of 5 mins. We were slow in laying out our stuffs and most of us were unsure of where to put them. Everybody was busy running to other classrooms, checking on how other patrols layout there stuffs. It was very disorganized. Year 2s did not allocate the Year 1s what to do and they were all confused too. When the time was up, some of the guides were still late for jihe. Therefore, we had to do some pumpings.

After pumping, the seniors break us off and inspection begins. 6 groups of patrol consellors entered our classrooms one after another for inspection, checking our mealbags, shorts, plastic bags, identities, peibei, first aid kit and styrofoam boxes. For my patrol, we were unable to explain the reasons for using a paticular colour/material and our moral was quite low. We failed to standardise amongst other patrols and some things were not labeled or included where stated in the packlist. We had our attire checked too. Most of our attire were still not up to standard. For example, low socks, long fingernails, shirt not tucked in and messy hair. Therefore, we were punished for all these. We had to do starjumps, pumpings, jumping jacks, sit-ups, run rounds and burpees. Our stamina was quite bad as some fall out along the way. We have to improve on that because ATC is around the corner. After inspection, we were given 5 mins to pack and clear up. Most of the guides were punctual for jihe.

Overall, we need to have a sense of urgency and take note of our attire during guides. Similarly, we have to brush up on our skills and cheer more to keep the patrol's spirit high(:

Jiayou all for atc!

Hi guides,

we had jihe on friday for pre-camp inspection. Each of the atc patrols occupied one room at the junior high block, level 3 and layed out the tables for our inspection. We then layed out our styrofoam boxes, peibei, patrols shorts, banner, flag, mealbags and identities for inspection.

Then, our year3 counsellors from each patrol came to check on various parts of our camp items.

For my patrol, our counsellors checked our first aid kit and peibei. Like many other patrols, we did not include an item list in the first aid box, which was very important. We now remember not to make the same mistake.

The next few groups of counsellors checked on our standardization of patrol shorts, identities and mealbags, as well as our banner and flag. Parts we did well in were creativity and use of colours. Our seniors also commented that our items were rather standardized with a few exceptions. However, our banner and flag were not completely water-proof and we were unsure of the meanings of our items. Thus, we still have much room for improvement.

After that, the counsellors also tested us on patrol songs and cheers, and the standardization of inspection layout. The layout was in general, neat, but the standardization with other patrols was not as good. We year 2s should have checked with other patrols more to confirm the layout of the items.

After every inspection by the counsellors, we had to complete our punishment which included pumpings, jumping jacks, running, etc. We kept our patrol spirit strong and cheered one another on. However, many of us need to improve on our stamina and pumpings standard.

Atc is on monday, jiayou to everyone!

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Hello guides!

There was skills training on Friday. We were given half an hour to build four kitchen shelters in total. However, we did not complete it in time and had to ask for a total of 25 minutes time extension. This was rather inacceptable as a kitchen shelter does not require so much time to be completed. Hence, we had to pump for it. As this was the first few jihes after our long break for EOY, many people were unable to pump standard and this was rather disappointing.

Next, we practiced to start the fire with the yuanzilu and yuanzila. We were given 2 eggs per patrol and told to boil them in the mess tins. We had some trouble lighting up the fire at first as many matches were wet but we finally managed to get the fire up when we got the new matches. After our eggs were cooked, we had to clear up and dao the kitchen tent.

We then had PT after cleaning up. We moved around the school in 2 patrols going to each station. We were also told to take good care of our eggs as the patrol which has both eggs intact at the end of PT gets a prize. The first station that my patrol went to was where we had to flip the UNO cards until we found a pair that matched. Meanwhile, we had to ding in boy’s style while one person goes up to flip at one time, for 10 minutes. As we did not have PT for a long time, many people were unable to ding standard for more than a few minutes. After 5 minutes, we changed to leg raise.

At our second station, we had to form words using alphabets from A-F and doing pumping accordingly, 1 for A, 2 for B and so on. At the same time 2 people from each patrol had to wheelbarrow back and forth.

Our last station was at the track. We were required to run non-stop for 10 minutes around the track at our own pace, then do 25 sit ups.

After PT, we had debrief where we learnt where we could improve, especially for ATC which is just round the corner. Drinks were given to all the patrols as a great improvement could be seen from the start of jihe and also to encourage all of us to work harder :)

Jiayou to all for ATC!

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