Outward Bound Singapore3 cheers and 3 cheers and 3 cheers for OBS! Firstly, I thank God for answering all my prayers (: You think OBS is torture camp? No way. OBS is different. In OBS, you choose what to do, it just depends whether the instructor thinks that it is appropriate, and there is enough time. There is no need to follow a programme, which is an utterly stupid idea, because it never does work anyway. I'm going to miss OBS. No more water spray fights, no more calling the boys, STINKBOMBS because they refused to bathe, and wanted to hug clean people. And the extra large sweat glands, Lum's (Shakleton's ultra lame instructor) jokes, us teasing each other, no more sleeping on rocks, no more catching of at least 15 planes a day, no more looking for lost equipment, no more eating bread and biscuits for lunch, NO MORE.
OBS DAY 1Honestly, I cried in the morning right after I got out of the car. I was already homesick even before leaving the school for OBS. Before assembly, Audrey and I sat at the back and then,
Mdm Sim: {To Audrey} Woah, you're also going? You didn't tell me.
Audrey: Yeah.
Mdm Sim: Eh, you all must look after each other okay?
Anne and Audrey: OK.
Mdm Sim: So did you bring any books to study?
Anne and Audrey:?! {exchange glances}
Submitted what I had to submit to the teachers, went off to give a friend her birthday present, and then off to OBS! I was really hoping I'd get into the same WATCH as Audrey, but we didn't in the end. I got into the same WATCH as Sa, Claire, Sylvie and Junie, which is TENZING, with people from Cranberra, HaiSing, and New Town. Sa almost died when she found out we were having bread and biscuits for lunch everyday. I almost died too. Not only that, because we weren't really that bonded, we were made to eat lunch with our hands tied up to the one next to you, which was not supposed to be someone from your school. And with such a way of eating, most of us just had a piece of bread. After lunch, KAYAKING! (: Partnered Joel for that. Capsized once for practice before we went out to sea. Out at sea, kayaked backwards, and normally, Dean gave us a few challenges, like, the one in front, which happened to be me, had to stand up and kayak, or to sit on the deck of the kayak to kayak. Funshit. We grouped up in 3 kayaks, and one would have to capsize. And I had to be the one, because I knew Claire was having something, and the Nabilla had the medicine bag. So left without a choice, Joel and I capsized. Pitched our tent, and where the complaining all began.
Tessa: Why did we even come for OBS?!
Anne: Because, a) People used propaganda, to influence us to think that OBS is fun, and we were influenced. b) because we wanted to miss a few days of school. Or c) to see SPC's natural resources of designs for her clothes. HAHAHA.
After which, we had to cook our own dinner, and it was beans, peanuts, rice, and sausages. The rice was hard.
OBS Day 2Believe it or not, we kayaked half, or more than half of Pulau Ubin. Kayaked around the island, and in swamps, where I kinda freaked out because I didn't want to pull my kayak out of the mud. What's more, we had to jump into the sea to pee, or shit, only difference was you had to take off your pants to shit. Partnered Tessa at first. But we should have known, we should not have partnered each other. I ended up having to switch partners, and I got Yu Han, and Sa had Joel. I had no wish to touch the water in the swamp after knowing why it is in such a state. We had a stopover, because we weren't allowed to go under the bridge and we had to carry our kayaks across. At the stopover, there was a bridge like thing that leads to a toilet just above the swamp. Dean peed, and guess what we saw coming under the toilet? His pee. Altogether now, EEW. We finished earlier than expected. Took a bath, and cooked dinner. After which we got our stuff ready for the next day's activities.
OBS Day 3Trekked all the way to Campsite 1. Campsite 1 was paradise. Before we went there, we did high ropes in Campsite 2. Partnered Joel. We had to go up log to log, about 5 logs above the ground, each at least 1.7 metres apart. I could have died. We could have died. Tsk. On the way to Campsite 1, we had to go through an obstacle, we had to bring all our load, one by one, across, a set of logs. Somewhat like a balancing act. Some bags were really heavy, like those with like 8 or more bottles of water. When we reached Campsite 1, Dean told us, where our toilets were, which was supposedly the bushes, and we had to dig a hole, and we could only powderbath! Can you imagine my face change colour?! Oh my goodness la. But, it was just a dumb joke. We had proper food, as in, real fresh food. Not canned food. We were so desperate la, please! We played truth or dare, and Donovan (Dorothy) was dared to eat a bag of prunes after dinner! Oh my gosh la! Imagine how much that would make him shit la! HAHAHA :D We had to sleep on rocks, we didnt get a good spot for the tent.
OBS Day 4We built a raft! And we succeded! YAY! Okay, anyway, after that, had lunch, and then back to Campsite 1. Pitched our tent where we had high ropes. Went down to get our store slightly cleaned. Cooked dinner at 5.30, finished at about 8, because food took long, and we had a water spraying fight after dinner. Since we were wet, we took a bath, and then started clearing our store. We saved at least $160 worth of groundsheets, because we found it, and we were ecstatic. Sneezed right in front of Roman, because he was scaring me by coming close because he hasn't taken a bath, and I had warned him, but no. He didn't listen, so I sneezed. We made the boys wait for us, because we heard some stories about that "100-steps" staircase to our tents. We heard there were wild boars there as well. Freaky.
OBS Day 5It was like the usual last day of camp, reflection, feedback, and yada yada. It was kinda sad actually, it was so quick, like, yesterday was just Day 1. We were ecstatic to come back to school, I think we actually missed school. Gave hugs to everyone, I simply just missed them! Saw our homework, and was like, SHEESH.
