volcano on the balcony!

Last YES Camp. O_______O

It was as though the previous YES camp had only been about seven months ago . . . which it was hahahaha. I still remember most of the things we did and how I felt at that time. It kind of makes me laugh now. :P But I was expecting this camp to be more fun because there are more members (especially from the freshmen) and we've been preparing for this with Sir Mike for a long time.

Tent-pitching was allowed since lunch time . . . But we seniors who had a LOT to do the whole day - either practicing or teaching our batch yell, meeting for Teachers' Day, and preparing for the camp as facilitators - couldn't find a time to set up our tents until after dismissal. But by that time a lot of spaces had been occupied by the other year levels, including the last row that was supposedly reserved for us seniors. So we had to find our own spot, and our tent wasn't even nowhere near Regina, Valerie and Meg's, because theirs was on the other side. Tsk. :'(

The campers were oriented in the gym for what was going to go down during the night. We facis went out of the gym to prepare for the team-building activities. Nothing was happening yet, so I sat down with Vielka and Regina with Tr. Jean. Hahaha. Well that hyped me up, Vielka kasi with her corny jokes, and then I remembered Emi and Jamsy's Guess the Song and shared it with them. Ahaha. And then, all of a sudden, a whistle was blown, and they were like, "Uy guys ayan na sila!" I rushed to the Chieri classroom with Margie and we saw one group on the other side trying to get inside too, but it was locked! We ran to them and did it along the corridor instead. Our station was the "Yell It!" where the different groups would have to make a yell and present it in front of everyone in the bonfire. But while the 2nd group was practicing we were called to have dinner.

Dinner was a hearty meal . . . and it felt great. x) We went back to the stations and they proceeded with the activities. So one group ran out of time and they got sort of mad at us . . . Well, not mad, but they're not exactly happy with it . . . :P And then after that we went in the Suginami Hall for the seminar on Sci-Dama. We facis just roamed around and distributed the boards, and I already knew how to play it, so I just taught some how to play for a while. Haha. I guess you could call it free time for us . . . B-) Lolz.

After that we headed outside the gym where the bonfire had been started. The campers were still practicing their yell to present it, and after some minutes the presentations started. Margie and I ranked their yells and decided the winner. >:) Oyes! Haha! Then we played with the bonfire, which was really fun. Some even played with their marshmallows on sticks. :)))) Lolz. Hahaha. After all that, they called for us to sleep . . . I didn't sleep right away though, 'cause I couldn't. I had a mini-concert outside our tent even if no one was listening, then I took a walk with Meg by the camp site. She said it was like we were walking by the beach, and so I said we were already swimming underwater and we were snorkeling hahaha =)) Waa laugh trip. May topak ako nung gabi. xP

So finally I went in our tent and started eating with Michie, Vielka and Hanna. \m/ :)))) We had a sharing. :') Weeee. Hehehe. And as usual we had some moments that made us laugh like crazies that we had to bury our faces in the pillow so that we couldn't be heard =)))) Haha! XD At about 1 in the morning, we decided to lie down and one by one we fell asleep. Only this time I was the last to sleep. O_______O Weird! x) Hahaha. But at least I did.

I started feeling something on my hands and face. At first I thought it was just air (yeah yeah it's weird to think that it's air) but it wouldn't stop. My brain was only starting to wake up. I felt water on my skin. I opened my eyes and saw Michie up. I said, "Michie, umaambon." I heard her say, "Oo, kanina pa." I heard it, but it didn't sink until a few seconds later and I said, "Shocks umuulan na! Michie yung cover ng tent" And the droplets of water hit us faster. Michie went out to get the cover of our tent. Phew :) Hanna was up by that time too, and they fixed the position of the cover so that it wouldn't come inside. We woke Vielka up because she was still in a deep slumber. :)) When Hanna and Michie were done with the cover they went back inside. We were just sitting for a while, and we were quiet. Then we saw Vielka munching on the Chippy from the night =))))))))) Yeah that made us laugh :)) Like we were all so serious and she was there, eating =))) Hahahaha =)) Ahh Vielka =))

We lay back down in the tent. It was just 2a.m. when the first attack of the rain occurred. That actually surprised me because I thought I'd been sleeping comfortably for at least three or four hours. But nooooo, the rain had to wake us up just an hour after we'd closed our eyes. x( Haha. But there was a second attack of the rain. Dang -.- Yeah. Hahahahaha. And then I woke up again, but I was just lying in the tent. Hanna was talking to Michie who was already outside. They were saying goodbye, because Michie was gonna go home and prepare for the LSMS. Hehehe. :> I don't remember if I opened my mouth but she said she didn't hear me :)) Wahaha!

Finally we woke up for the camp proper. Ahahaha. We just sat down for a while and then changed clothes. Then Sir Mike called us facis for the survival games :> We went to Tr. Carol to explain to us what would go down during the game. >:) Oyes hahaha. After that we headed to the canteen for breakfast. Mmmm. After that everyone was called in the gym so that Tr. Carol could explain it to them. We facis went out again to prepare the obstacles. Woohoo! Finally, the men were deployed. =)))) Lolz hahaha.

So we just watched :)) Lolz. I envied them but at the same time I didn't :)) I wanted to play but I didn't want to get dirty too hahaha. Hmmmmm, I have nothing much to say here :)) I think everyone had fun, though. xD They even played with the hose. Lolz. After that was shower time, but I didn't go right away :)))) There were just too much peeps in the showers. Yeahhhhh O_______________O

There was a seminar on biodiversity hahaha. I just sat down beside Regina because we didn't have groups 'cause we're facis. Ahehe. Although Vielka and Eminence and some other facis were with the rest of the seniors. Lolz. And then lunch time xP Ahaha. Then we went back to the Suginami Hall for the thingy . . . the dome . . . Yeah I forgot what it's called. :)) Making it was fun though. :D Hehehe. Vielka and I went with Hanna and Meg's group, Group E. And would you believe that our replica was one of the top 2? :> We didn't win though =)) Too bad. But at least! :D

Yes, the awarding ceremony came after that. Guess what group won the Yell It. >:) The group that got "mad" at us because they didn't have enough time to conceptualize and practice :)))) And guess which group that was? Group E! :))))) Oh yeah! Hahaha! :P :> I forgot the rest of the awarding ceremony because we weren't included in any of them :)) Hehehe. So yeah. XP And after that we packed our bags and went home. Lolz.

Last YES Camp forever . . . It was a memorable one, as all my other YES Camps had been too. :') I'm blessed to be a part of this. :)

Labels: journal, school, Senior Year, YES Camp

Saturday, September 24, 2011

8:47 AM

Feb. 18-19, 2011: YES Camp (For realz)

"The last thing I saw before I left was the two of them sitting together and talking to each other. There was one thing I remember: the fact that I had wanted it to be us. So if you want to know if it hurt, then, yes, it did. So much. I don't know when I'll be completely happy again."

HA. Okay, so YES camp. It's finally here!! Well, if you don't know (and I am sure you really don't), last year 2010 we were already supposed to have finished the camp, but it keeps getting delayed. It was even supposed to be out-of-school, but noooooooo, our assistant principal won't let us. But hey, enough of that now, because it's finally here. And by here that includes YES camp being in school, so yeah.

We were the very first ones to register since we didn't leave the school at all. :)) Sir Mike said we could set up our tents already, so we did, and did so quicker than I'd expected and without much hassle. Unlike last year, eh? :)) Hey, we learned! :)) Then we (Michelle, Hanna, Vielka and I) went to South Supermarket (thanks to Michelle's dad!) to buy snacks for midnight. Wahoo! :)) We even saw AJ's mom, and I learned that Darren got, er, injured or something. Aww. [-(

When we arrived back at school, Meg's tent was already set up. They pitched their tent right next to us. Wee! :D Then we changed clothes, and for some reason, as if time suddenly sped up there, there were already a lot of people in the camp. Dinner was supposed to be at around 6, but -- much to my dismay -- it didn't start yet, because we were still waiting for the other campers. Oh, and Jamsy and her maid arrived! Jamsy's maid = Margie. Hahaha! Anyway, while waiting to eat, Reg and I were discussing about our HP characters. HAHA. :))))) Can't tell you here, you might hunt us if you're a Death Eater. =)) Wew. And finally, after waiting, we were . . . I thought we were going to eat already, but we were just called to the Suginami Hall. AWWWW.

We prayed, then headed to the canteen. Juniors sat with each other. Weeeeee. Then we went back to the Suginami Hall and had a short briefing, then headed to the bio lab. (At least, I remember it was the bio lab.) But anyway, We were scattered in the lab into different groups. I was with Ate Anabell, Irish, and Karylle, I think. Tr. Tina introduced us to her classmate when she was in Bicol and her fellow Chem teacher. They were very different though, we could clearly see the difference. xP But it was fun because we did experiments. Cool ones. Er, not to say our normal chem experiments weren't cool, Tr. Tina!! If in case you come across this blog post. X_X Hahaha. :)) But yes, they were fun. Science became more interesting! But only when we talk about the cool experiments and not the meaning, because seriously, my brain was always leaving my head when the teacher was discussing stuff.

I looked at my phone for the time. It was around 10:30 in the evening. I thought we were going to sleep already and that we had 30 extra minutes, but just then, Sir Mike said, "These are your groupmates for your activity tonight." And I was like, "More activities? Man, I wanna lie down already." And then, he announced the first group. Kuya Christian. Then me. But I wasn't entirely listening (head in the clouds again) and thought it might be my sister. :)) Then Margie. Nooooooooooo. O_O HAHA, only kidding. Then some others but I forgot who they were there because we weren't really close :))

After all the groups and groups were announced and activities explained, we went outside the lab and headed to our groups. First activity, we were supposed to find something that was related to us. Okay, I didn't have flashlight. Good thing Margie had one -- or at least, Kuya Christian had one, and Margie borrowed it from him. So we started looking for random objects around the field (like grass, which was what I was supposed to take, telling Margie that it was because like grass, I felt like I'm always being stepped on, but then the thought seemed so gloomy and wasn't entirely true, so I gave up on that). Then she found a flag, but so unfortunately, it wasn't ours. So we just hid it again. >:) And then we started looking for other flags, along with Khielle and Hanna. :)) But still we didn't find our own flags. Tsk! And then, it was time. Time for sharing.

I had nothing to share because I didn't get anything. Plus, my brain was not entirely working then, because it was on post-cloud vacation mode. So, er, yeah . . . Then I met my other groupmates. Andgrel, Gabby, Matthew, and Isok. Wahoo! Then the horn sounded and it was time for us to find our flags. Long story short we took a longer time to find it because it wasn't in the bushes, unlike the other flags we found. Then Kuya Christian started giving us hints . . . We even went near the chapel thinking it was there :)) Then when we were coming back to the field, we saw Jacob and another guy putting a flag back inside a pot thing, seeing that it wasn't theirs. HA! It was ours! Very good. :))))

It took a long time for us to think of our own group name, design a flag, and create a yell. Finally it was decided that our name was going to be Group "Rock," CAUSE WE ROCK. Haha only kidding, I thought of that because most of the members had rock as the thing they could relate to (because that was the only thing they found). Wee. So, yeah. Andgrel (I hope I'm getting his name right) drew our flag, and in the last minute Kuya Christian said the drawing should include the burning of other groups' flags. :)) Trash talk, much? XD We went back to Suginami Hall to present, and unfortunately we were the first ones to. It was embarrassing, but okay. :))

And then I thought we were finally going to sleep, but noooooooooooooooooooo. Still no. Noooo! Sir Mike prepared an activity for us. Write numbers 1-10 in the papers and give them to your groupmates. That was fraud. :)) For me, at least. But at least now I know that Margie admires me! Then the second activity was all about colors . . . Write a description in the paper in relation to what color it is and how you interpret it, and below write the name of your groupmate who you think best fits that description. Then in the back write why you chose him/her for that color. Well, okay . . . :)) Finally, it was really finished, and we could get back to our tents! \:D/

We took a shower that night so it wouldn't be such a hassle in the morning. Thankfully we arrived at the showers earlier than the others so we finished early. Back in the tent. We ate the food we bought at South. \m/ Hahaha! :)) We could hear Meg, Reg and Val laughing next to us :)) Meanwhile, we were eating. =)) Then we were soundtripping. Then we were video-ing, but there was no light. :)) And then we started laughing, and Sir Mike kept reprimanding us. Weeeew. :)) Sorry about that. After some time we could still hear our three neighbors laughing, especially Ate Battery. :)))) Then she started telling us a scary story, and we heard Meg humming so she couldn't hear :)) =)) Valerie didn't finish, but good thing too because hearing scary stories at night keeps me awake and alert. O_O Some time after that, they said that they were already going to sleep, so we had to be more quiet, since we were the only tent that was awake. Vielka fell asleep already, and so did Hanna, but I was talking to Michelle so we stayed awake. Then Hanna woke up because she was going to pee =))) And, well, the three of us stayed up from the point on and started sharing stories. :D Dawn was approaching, and just then did I feel sleepy. Good thing we already took a shower, so we were allowed to sleep longer. Yes!

Michelle woke us up and said that it was 5:30. I still wanted to sleep of course, but at least I was unconscious for some time because if I wasn't I might have passed out. We changed clothes. Hung back for a while. Then went to the canteen for breakfast. I took whole rice -- worst decision of the day. My stomach was full already, but of course, I had to finish the thing. So there. :( Then we just hung out in the tent for a while. That was awesome. We were taking pictures and videos :)))) Then Sir Mike called us to the field. We were going to do Tai Chi. Dunno if the spelling's correct, but yeah. . . . Erm, well, it was odd . . . but surprisingly relaxing. Then we had like one more hour of free time before our parallel session. Awesome!!

We stayed in the tent, of course. :> Sung some songs, then, took pictures of ourselves. :))))) After about 30 minutes we unassembled our tent and put our things in the lobby. Hanna left because she was going to attend a wedding (no, not her own -- yet). Then we went upstairs in the labs with our fellow juniors. We were taking physics for the parallel session. To sum that up: It was FUN. And awesome. I mean, really. . . . Tr. Jean got me excited for physics next year! :)) Plus, Michelle, Vielka and I got pencil bags -- finally, I have a new one of my own! -- because we won the straw tower challenge. :)) Nice Michelle! XDXD Man, did I start to love science right then and there. :)))) Plus, Tr. Jean was such a cool teacher! XD Then, we had lunch.

Michelle left after eating, so it was just me and Vielka left. We had a heart-to-heart talk. :))) ;) Mwahaha. >:) It was cut short by Sir Mike who called us to the gym. Then I played badminton with Vielka, Emi and Paolo, but Paolo and I weren't receiving the ball much (especially me) so we played with each other. :)) I got tired after a short while (and I wasn't doing any good) so I rested on the bench, until Sir Mike told us to assemble in front with our groups. But then, there were a lot of people who left already because of either apostolate, Syala, or SAP. So, we were regrouped into 9. I was supposed in Group 8, with Meg. :)) Instructions: There are 9 posts, and we have to complete each post in 10 minutes each. So yeah.

Our first post was forensics . . . I think. It was easy and we finished it way ahead of time. XD Then the next was egg barbecue. Hahaha :)) Our first try failed, but the second one was good. Third was we had to transfer the cups and make a pyramid using the rubber band. That sweated us out. Fourth was we had to guess the ingredients of the shake: squash, bittergourd, carrots, and cauliflower. HA! Awesome. Fifth was we had to create words from the letters forming "Deoxyribonucleic acid." I put 'cylinder' and 'licorice.' XD I'm proud. HAHA. But we only formed 71 words =)) The highest then was 97, so we failed. :)))) Sixth was we had to put a remnant of an egg into a JAR and remove it using only newspaper and a lighter, no hands. We couldn't do it because of the fail lighter, so we just explained how we were supposed to do it. Meg's thumb touched the flame when she was burning the newspaper, and it started having marks. Awwwww. :( There wasn't a wound, though. . . . Seventh post was we had the make ping pong balls fly using a bendy straw. Woohoo! That was actually fun. Hahaha. XD Eighth was to get rid of the water in the JAR (but it was actually a Coke bottle) in the fastest way we can. It was taught to us in our physics session! \m/ XD Hahaha. :D Last but not least was, er, well, picture, and seriously it was weird. O_____O

Haha, then we were allowed to go home. :))

Overall, it was an unforgettable camp. :D One of the best. Nice, Sir Mike! \m/

"Either way I don't want to change anything between us. But it keeps getting harder and harder now."

Labels: journal, school, YES Camp

Saturday, February 19, 2011

5:06 AM

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