I trooped to the church at 8 plus with my bags to prepare to go for the church camp. I was actually very reluctant to go for the camp cause I didn't really know anyone from church well (except for the RGS girls!) and I thought that it was going to be awkward and boring and whatever.

I found out I was in Team Mufasa! There were 5 girls: Me, Jasmine, Pauline, Hillary and Maria and 3 boys: Nicolas, Nigel and Kenneth. Out of all of them I only knew Jasmine and Pauline, who were in my catechism class. And even so, we weren't very close or anything. And so I was like miserable and grumpy. We had 2 facilitators, Sebastian and Geraldine.

We made our way to St. Teresa's Church for the camp. The place is actually quite nice and habitable, unlike the usual camp conditions (which is disgusting and dirty). The showers even had HOT WATER. So OMG right!

We then had the ice breakers. Quite fun, but did not really help me to remember people's names. I vaguely remember being very blur and having to do a forfeit. Was a weird shaking butt dance thing. Then lunch!!

After lunch was internal games. Wah I tell you, the games there are CRAZY. I thought the games we did in the previous gym camps were bad but ZOMG, the church camp ones are like :O I got EXTREMELY dirty and wet and disgusting. Games include wheel-barrowing on an extremely WET floor (where I fell twice on my front while wheel-barrowing, causing my entire shirt to be wet and dirty) to bite apples out of a tank of water which will be filled with other people's saliva by the time you get there. YUCK.

The rest of the day was not very significant, we just had a session. I bonded with the girls (Yay!) and ignored the guys. Sebastian (Sebby for short), our facil is like Super Funny. Really Super Funny. He caused our whole group to burst out in laughter like every 5 minutes or something. Haha.

We had external games on Wednesday. But it rained really really hard. I, being the smart and foresighted one (:D), brought an umbrella. So I shared with some group members, and we didn't really get wet AT FIRST. I'm not going to describe the whole journey, but it involved getting really wet (even with the umbrella) and trudging through a flooded place and losing our slippers in it.

Our team got FIRST!!! :D So we had the pleasure of bathing leisurely! :D Yay!

We did a night walk at night and it was quite fun. (:

Thursday was supposed to be a spiritual day, without all the noisy and rowdy games, and boy, it was super emotional for me. My tear glands were positively overworked.

The start of all the drama was with the crazily sad clip of The Passion of the Christ, where it was revealed through the sharing after that, that everyone (even the guys!) was touched by. I couldn't watch the second half of the clip cause I really couldn't take it anymore. I shed a few tears, but not a lot, cause I only watched the first half. This is the very first time I felt so touched by Jesus' sacrifice for us. The fact that he died for our sins, and even up till his last breath was still asking God to 'Forgive them' was really so touching and sad.

Then was confession. Wah I tell you arh, I couldn't confess all my sins cause I was crying too hard after confessing THREE only you know. Before all of you slam me for being sissy, it was just that I felt so guilty for doing all those terrible things! Added to the fact that I was already so emotional from the clip that I just watched before that, the tears just came so naturally. And I think the Father got quite scared I think and he ended the confession by telling me to say 3 Hail Marys for penance. And I went out of the room crying and whatever and I think the people outside were quite shocked. Winnie told me that after I went out, Moses the camp co-ord put a box of tissues on the table in the corridor. Haha.

Then at night we had the talking session, where we just talked to our friends (old or new) in individual groups, affirming our friendship and stuff like that. First, I did with the RG gals and it involved a lot of hugging and laughing and remembering all the fun stuff we did together. Then I went to talk to Sebby, Jasmine and Geraldine. Jasmine was having some problems so we were attempting to help her. Slowly the guys joined the group one by one so it was like a really long sharing session. I really thought that through this conversation, I got to know every single one of them better. (:

Revealing secret pals! It turns out that my secret pal was Cherrine (sp?). Haha. Then watched a photo montage with a few unglam shots of me and quite funny shots of other people.

Then we went back to Nativity Church! Took group shots and stuff like that at the Mother Mary statue at our church, and I went home. (:

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All of my impressions of what this camp will be like before it was really misguided. I never thought that I could enjoy myself so much at a church camp. Through this camp, I got to know people that I would never have talked to if not for this camp. It really caused me to think of why I was so reluctant to make new friends in church before, because they are really genuinely nice and friendly people!!! Through this camp, I also really felt that I was brought closer to God. Hopefully I can change for the better after this camp! ((:

Yay I think there is a meet-up on 26th of June. (: Yay!

Haha that's it! Such a long post, and took so long as well. But I'm glad I blogged about Church Camp, because one day if I can't remember what I did I can always re-read this post (: