Sec 3 Camp (III)

YEsssss!!
I just finished checking a stack of files :P Seriously, I haaaaaate checking files. But..what to do. Must make sure the kids have all their materials nicely filed up, if not when they want to revise next time, it'll be a total mess.

So, to reward myself, I shall blog about that last day of sec 3 camp. hiak hiak.

So, 3rd day was trekking. The teachers were all braced for the attack of the killer leeeeches..by spraying 10 000 layers of insect repellant on our track shoes! Haha, apparently that helps to at least repel them away from your feet. And I was armed with my mosquito coil and holder hanging on my bag as I am a mega mosquito attractor. AND, that was how I suddenly "adopted" 2 godsons...coz they simply couldn't stop following behind me during the WHOLE trek coz they wanted to be super near to the mosquito coil..hahha.....

So after breakfast, we took a boat across the river to where we were suppose to trek.


And after I lit my mosquito coil, we started our trekking. Must say, that the NCC Ophir trips have really been useful in building my confidence and toughening me up.. felt quite at ease and comfortable during our trekking...all those familiar sites of tree roots on the floor...climbing up and down...pulling onto ropes to get up certain steeper areas...helping each other along the way. Think our group did enjoy ourselves even amongst the groans and moans of having to climb up and down and up and down :) I for one, didn't find the trek boring at all due to the immense amount of "live entertainment" that I had behind me from this group of boys...haha.. ;) Oh oh oh, and not to mention, we didn't see a SINGLE leech during our trek, as opposed to the group that trekked the day before...seems many of them got bitten, including the teachers. So, yay =)

I think this was our first rest point....

At this rest point, one of my ex-students JC passed me an almost "empty" mineral water bottle and said something like "ms chow, want to drink or not?" to which I replied "Huh, it's ok I have my own..and anyway, there's barely water inside?" And he said, "nm nm, just hold the bottle and see...". So ok..I held the bottle...and he was like..."can you see what's inside?" And there I was looking looking....saw nothing. And he pointed here pointed there.. "See see? See that white white thing??" And then I FINALLY spotted this little white furry insect which had a reddish underneath...and I just mused "AYE so cuuute!"
And this was his face --------> 0.o Hahahah...followed by ---------> -.-
JC: "Huh??? CUTE???? (turns to his friend) She's not scared at all la!!"
Ms Chow: "Huh? Hahhahahah scary meh?? So cuuute!" :P

Hahah...but seriously, I found that little creature cute. Please la, I've seen scarier insects. :P
Anyway, I think the boys ended up torturing the poor little thing by SHAKING the bottle profusely even though I told them to let it go.....eviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil boys.......tsk tsk.

The view looks great doesn't it? :)

We were supposed to actually go for our tree-top walk before we trek to the highest point, but there were too many other tourists there, so we carried on trekking first.
And here we are, at the highest point of our trail ;)

The teachers, all smiles :)

OK, there is a story behind this POLE inside our pic. I had wanted all of use from CHS to be in a nice pic, so I asked one of our guides to help take the picture. And this is the pic he took -.-"
Couldn't he see that the ENTIRE POLE was inside the pic!?!? Already kinda suspected that he was in the total wrong position when he stood so near to the pole...haiz....

So in the end, still had to ask one of our own students to take the pic. Thanks KK :)

Aah, isn't this so much better without the pole! =)

The nice scenery from our highest point..

And this is the starting of our tree-top walk. Only a group of 5 of us can go up at a single time, so as to not overload the bridges on top.
The path is kinda skinny isn't it? But I think that adds to the fun..hee.
A view from the tree-top walk...
This is the reason why we can only go up to the tree-top walk at intervals and in small groups..coz they actually limit how many people can be at certain points, to ensure that the weight doesn't become too much for the bridges and stop points.
Haha...just wanted to take a pic of myself on the along the way..
Remember I mentioned 2 individuals who were perpetually behind me coz of my mosquito coil? :P
A picture of our troop of people before I got off the bridge..

After our tree-top walk...we went back to the floating restuarant by boat to have our lunch before we went for rapid shooting.



No pics for rapid shooting thought I did bring my camera along in a ziplock...coz I was SO drenched....thanks to my beloved students in my boat who kept on pouring water onto me. So I didn't take the camera out.

Got a sunburn from sitting at the river for close to an hour =.=" Cannot really believe it....haiz.
And of course, with so many students around, and the teachers sitting around on the rocks in the middle, we became the target of water splashing. Haha..


After we got all cleaned up, we were off to a resort for our final yummy dinner together as CHS again.

More on that tomorrow ;)
Now I have to get ready to attend a wedding dinner!!