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Camp

So I went to prefect camp for the past three days, staying in the school.

And as usual, camps - especially this kind - leave you physically exhausted and aching all over. It would have been better had we not gone to Kem Kemuyan on the second day, but I think going there was by far the best thing because time seems to pass faster.

True, I hate going to such camps, but I guess nothing much I can do after signing up for it. Some people in the camp literally did not sleep especially on the second night, because the next day was drilling competition day and we only had three hours on the first day to practise.

I took the first watch of that particular night, sat under the lights in the corridor and got bitten by hungry mosquitoes. While nearly everyone else was drilling. I ‘cheated’ and managed to be exempt from drilling at all that night.

About Kem Kemuyan, in the morning we spent three hours watching and waiting as everyone took to the wall. I think it is called a Canopy Walk, where one climbs to the top of a tower and comes down, spiderman-style, in a harness and all, like walking down the smooth wall. I had some troubles in the beginning, but it was all fine in the end. (By the way, that day was my birthday, and the kids actually remembered and sang the birthday song to me!)

The Obstacle Course in the afternoon was probably really painful for the bigger boys, especially since they had to do a lot of carrying and helping. Doing the commando crawl underneath the barb wire was quite fun actually.

So despite the lack of sleep, and the noisy clanging church bells at precisely 6 am, and dirty toilets, the days passed quickly, and finally I’m home again.

Home has never seemed sweeter.

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