3 days. those near 60+ hours that we spent together somehow seems more then 60 hours, it was as if we knew each other for a long time already, we could communicate well, we knew each other's personality, we knew how to deal with each other, how to get our messages across to each other without the slightest hint of a doubt, without the slightest flaring of temper. Even if we had an opposing viewpoint, we would take each other's views into consideration, weigh out the pros and cons and see how to improve the design, ideas weren't thrown out of the window straight away, careful thought and consideration were given, even if an idea was rejected, the reasons were valid and the way it was put across showed that the idea was at least worth 9 other member's time to think abt =)

the facilitators and teachers thought our group was fantastic and we won the best sub group award for Group C. kudos to all C4 members! but if they should ask why we were so good and could work so well, i would imo, say it all boils down to a single word, mutual. everything we did was mutual within the group, there was mutual trust, mutual respect, mutual care and love. these precious things became a necessity to us, we couldn't do without it. i could see all of us wanting to help each other and not asking for anything in return, jairus really deserved the best camper award even though he was genuinely shocked at receiving it. shows how if you're really doing something good, from your heart, no word of thanks or recognition is needed, but still, since the teachers acknowledged his contributions to the team, he is one group member we can be proud of. kudos to you jairus!

in this camp, i learnt some things, one of the bigger one was humility. because frankly speaking, my forte isn't in anything physical, true, i might have better willpower then others, but i developed that from band, my physical strength is easily crushed by people like jarius and kannan. dragonboating is a good example, though it was jarius forte, he let us paddle, he wanted us to experience the toughness of rowing the boat and trust me, it was no mean feat. my body still bears the ache from rowing, but for this event, jairus taught me how to row the boat properly and at first i was like its just rowing, how hard can it be? but my point was later emphasized by the aching of my body, and jairus taught me the right techinque and really, it lessened the strain on my body by a lot a lot. it showed me that as a leader, you should always be open to opinion, because right now, we are jacks of all trades but master of none. no one can claim to be good at something, the only thing we can claim is that we are RELATIVELY better at certain things as compared to others. thus listening to your friends criticisms and pointers really can help make you go a long way.

but we are all CCALs or council, this means that we're the *creme de la creme" and why we can really work so well is perhaps because we all have a shared vision, we're all ccals, we can work better with each other just because we're ccals, its like putting birds of the same feather together, they always flock together throughout. but in the cca itself, this might not be the case and dissent can be heard whenever a decision is made, we cant satisfy both sides so we have to always always sacrifice sth from ourselves and come to a compromise btwn both sides, because i believe strongly that arguing is a waste of my time. decisions have to be made and some people won't like it but that won't change a thing anw.

heh that shall be all for today, tmw i'll continue, cant really think alr =)

for you =) missed you loads <3! enjoy!