3 days of camp, 946578 bags of luggage.
packing the night before wasn't very successful.
would look for a bag, roll it to my room, sit in front of the computer and chat for a while..
go to the living room, look for the packing list, and come back to the computer for more wasting time.
go to the cupboard to look for clothes,
go to the washing area to look for clothes,
and go to the ironing bag, and you guessed it, look for clothes.
it took me forver to pack because i was getting super distracted by everything.
ended up on the phone with ranon wasting time.
and mentioning that i had half an empty compartment.
so ended up with half a bag filled with newspaper and other miscellaneous logistics that they needed for the telematch like water guns and baking trays.
and then i forgot to leave space for my sleeping bag and shoebag.
so in the end had a huge bag of stuff and two more bags attached to it.
so much for a 3 day camp.
and the first day was actually pretty fun.
thought i'd be quite free being the tribe head, and not having to take charge of a clan of my own, but had to take over leila and yu qing's clan since ranon decided to drop leila, and yu qing wasn't allowed to come.
so suddenly i was in charge of kids.
and i was super apprehensive since i thought that i would have to handle a whole clan alone, and still be tribe head.
and then i called leila who said that she would turn up. but then called me in the morning saying that she had a sore eye and couldn't make it.
and then yuqing somehow turned up so he and i became partners.
he's super nice, actually.
and game for all the nonsense i came up with.
sarah was giving out tags and since he wasn't a registered facilitator he didn't have one.
so i gave him mine. with my name and "head facilitator, tribe head" written on it.
so then we came up with some plan that we should switch names.
which was hilarious.
since people were calling him anjali and he would be stoning until he realized that they were calling him.
and wacko was uber confusing since a lot of times i ended up calling yuqing and then realized that i was actually calling myself.
then switched my name to leila tan yuqing after that.
and he happily wrote "uncle anjie and aunty qing's" on my handbook.
but he was fun to clown around with. and i made him play all the games because our group had an odd number.
and he'd help me carry stuff and during mealtimes he'll just serve me everything before i can pick up the spoon to serve myself.
the group itself was quite fun. they were actually quite quiet. but most people would be. and our group only had one guy. who obiously felt super left out, so i kind of forced yuqing on him, which was kind of mean since the guy seemed to have a crush on yuqing and he felt really awkward.
but it was so much better beind a facilitator than a participant since i could choose whether i wanted to play or not and just make yuqing play if the game was compulsory.
day 1 was just the getting to know them day. so it was just spent doing stuff. and it passed really quickly. and mr kan kicked yuqing out of the camp so i ended up doing reflections alone with the kids, and brought them to the netball court to look at the stars and talk. had to come up with some way to tell them that yuqing wouldn't be coming back.
slept in the spex gal with the rest of the facs. anan didn't bring a sleeping bag, and he looked so pitiful lying on the concrete floor so i gave him mine and vid and i shared hers.
the night was cold *and* we slept under the fan, without a blanket, wearing shorts.
so that was 4 hours of freezing and maybe 2 hours of sleep snuck in.
had to be careful not to kick vid off the steps while we were sleeping..
but actually, it wouldnt be so bad since she would have just landed on pravin who was sleeping below us.
