A glance of the recent camping for IPGs from all over Sarawak at IP Rajang, Bintangor. This 4 days and 3 nights camp has exorted all my energy out; physically, mentally, and socially too.. :S
Briefly, the camp is all about Scout, Red Crescent and TKRS. All together, there's 235 participants if I'm not mistaken. We arrived there around 3pm on the first day. Located our camping ground and start to build up the tents for the night.
Seemed like the heavy rain has hit our camping ground hard. Most evacuated their belongings. The Scout team has been really helpful. They helped to evacuate our stuff to the hall and when we saw them, they were like dripping wet and their uniform was all wet as well.
Scouts were getting their dinner ready. They just never stop working...
Camping ground. Good news for them, their tents were in good shape
Though for some...
And for us... Flood!
Still, our group has the mood to cook! :)
Girls ended up sleeping at the open-air hall <br>
Our facilitator commented us the next morning, "Semalam saya lihat kamu semua tidur berhimpit-himpit. 100 lebih tidur macam udang kering, bengkok sini sana. Mana tak, sejuk dari khemah kerana dewan itu open-air. Malam ini, semua wajib tidur dalam khemah; basah ke tak. Oh swell...
Third day: B.O.M (Bantuan Operasi Menyelamat)
B.O.M was our last formal activity in the schedule for the entire camping week. B.O.M is a situation where we will set up a team of Disaster Force Team in an area where a disaster happened. There will be sections such as Registration of patients, Survey team, Mass Feeding team, Search and Rescue team, Logistic team, Public Communication team, and not least the First Aid team which will be under the orders of main Operation Room. We had fun during B.O.M. Challenging as given situation differs from head-cracking situation to silly ones such as an old lady called Red Crescent Disaster Task Force to allocate her cat. -_-". I learned a lot about Disaster Management during that activity.
The fourth day has arrived, FINALLY! Everyone was rejoiced to go home.. Well, back to campus at least. Back to that comfty bed, back to alone time and back to technology. We bid farewell to some old friends and new ones. Headed back to college and it took us around 5 hours. That's quick.
Odd to say for a person like me who deeply loves camping out, this is the worst camping I had gone through. The activity is not challenging at all and there's like major conflicts here and there; internally and also among IPGs. I guess this camping has brought out everyone's true color. Sad to say, even myself. Some of the time, I really felt like strangling some people for being so insensitive with others. Argh.. can't wait for graduation where I can be away from most of those hypocrites! I guess I might only miss my coursemates. Should have chosen Scout instead of Red Crescent where most of my coursemates are...
Well, looking at the positive side, at least I managed to meet some of my friends from other IPs. There's Lee Sin, Chai, Hui Lan and Shan Ling from my field-based experience team; Lo, my three-in-a-row camping friend; some of my netball rivals and new friends as well.
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