youth orientation 2007

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so last saturday was the orientation for rsp youth.

we met at 0930..waited around..ice-breaking games started at around 1030..actually, ice-breaking game, to be exact. there was only 1 game: double whacko.

it was quite fun..first played with the boys' home ppl..then everyone played together. but it was a bit impossible to remember everyone's name..too many ppl le!


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the more exciting part of the day started after lunch. the amazing race! i think we were quite unlucky coz we got quite a lousy route..had to do a lot of unnecessary travelling! but we were too good to be stumped by that!

and we entertained ourselves during the train rides by playing lame games (: the bang bang 1.. mrt stations 1.. the open-close 1.. fuzzy wuzzy.. etc etc. boon meng (not sure how to spell his name hehe) had quite a few lame games to torture us with! think jianwen was the most tortured, coz for some reason, he has never played any of them before and we had great fun torturing him

oh forgot to intro the people who were there.

old volunteers: me, jianwen, junhan and rabin
new volunteers: hui wen, hui koon, michelle, khalissa, christine (at the beginning and end haha), boon meng, hock heng (aka ah cai4), boon meng, kian lye (i think)

the new volunteers were all nice nice ppl (: and we all got along very well! obviously we did right..that's why we WON!!!

yupz we won even though we got a lousy route!

i think we really deserved it! coz we worked really hard for it..it was really tiring..coz even though we'd said we wouldn't run, obviously we ended up running in the end. and we ended up running a lot. oh yes, have to thank hui wen, coz she was literally our walking street directory, helped us save a lot of time by directing us to a lot of places (esp those in chinatown).

the amazing race was quite well-designed..liked the part about taking photos with people of different nationalities! and the new volunteers were all quite onz..which was definitely the key to our success. khalissa was fasting and yet she was running as hard as the rest of us! super admirable!

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one of the highlights of the day was definitely the interrogation session on the steps of clarke quay mrt station! the new volunteers + rabin were intensively interrogated and gamely shared many interesting things about themselves.

of coz, the other highlight of the day was our celebratory dessert session at swensens! went there to use up our prize: $80 swensens voucher. the ice-cream was super shiok after the day's exertions! and of coz, the high of our victory made it exceptionally sweet (:


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yupz think i've covered everything le. all in all, it was quite a fun day..and i'm looking forward to meeting the new volunteers again when they start coming for the sessions! (: