The Thailand trip is awesomely awesome! OK, lets make this a deal, if I get more than 5 comments from 5 people on this than I will write about the trip (I mean do more work).
Quick Summery about the trip
We went to admiralty at 5 am. We were on the plane at about 6:30. We flew to Bangkok and took another plane from there. Then we waited in the Chiang Rai airport, then we had to take a minibus there, then we had to unload our luggage, then We fell in in the water area. By the time we got there, it was about 5:00 pm. Exactly 12 hours when we were still in Hong Kong. We had an hour or two to organise our stuff and fight for the beds. I had to sleep beside the toilet.
For the 6 days that we were there, we did Sala games on the first day. We actually had to play this in a power outage and a thunderstorm not far away. I was surprised to see that I was the only one with a lamp, torch, umbrella and a rain jacket.
We did Market and cookery, climbing and night games on the second day. You probably know what everything here is so I am just going to tell you what happened. We were split into groups of 3 and 4 for cooking but we must go to the market first. We were given 100 baht which means about 27 HK and 4 US. We obviously couldn’t buy everything that was on the list but the cooking part was fun. My groups vegetables were too salty. Climbing will be mentioned below and night games was pretty cheating. We went to a shelter blind folded and we were freaked out to see nothing when we took off our blindfolds. We had to go to another shelter without being shown with a torch. I was wearing white and I made it there the first time when people who were wearing black took 2-3 tries.
We did Kayaking, jungle survival and team technology on the third day. We had a tutorial on Kayaking in the pond. Then we went down the river splashing people with water. Then we had jungle survival and I broke the shelter because there was water. And my group of 3 won team technology at night. Our team name was killing bugs. When water was being poured in to the cup. We put a holy bug underneath. And we won! Cheese.
We did activities in school and hilltribe hike on the fourth day, field games was cancelled because of the power outage. The kids were very hard to control in the school, but when the ice cream man came, they all fell scilent. The hilltribe hike was more like a walk. I saw some tribe kids coming to throw mud at us so I blocked it with my umbrela. Ya, it got screwed up a little.
We did community, archery, confidence course and team technology. I don’t really remember what we did for community. Archery was kind of fun and it was kind of unfair. When I shot my arrows, they bounced off and the arrows were bent. And we would have won team tec but somebody in our group broke the egg before it was launched and we received a broken balloon. Sachin kept on complaining about the design, after so many years of experience of these situations, I think that his idea was going to make the egg explode for sure.
On the last day, we had mini Olympics. And I stole someone’s cube shaped egg.
We had lunch and snacks on the planes and flew back to Hong Kong at 11:00pm. I went back home at 12 something and slept at about 1.
Out of the 10 attributes, I think two of them represented me the most. I chose well balanced and risk taker. I demonstrated these attributes in a really strange way. For being balanced, I ate exactly 6 watermelons per meal. It is pretty insane. The risk taker part wouldn’t be noticed easily and it is as I said, pretty silly. It was in the confidence course. If you don’t know what it is, it is a course that develops confidence. There is a part where there is a rope with knots and we have to get on that to swing to get to the other side. I tried to jump on the rope and landed in the water. Wait, did I mention that there was water?
What is something that surprised you about yourself or about someone else?
I surprised myself about me when I was too prepared for everything in the camp.
Describe a time when faced a challenge on the trip. How did you overcome it?
One of the challenges was going rock climbing. I reached the top first and reached the top first blind folded. The first time was really scary when you are 3 floor above ground. I tried not to look down but the cheering encouraged me to.
Overall, the trip was pretty fun. I enjoy beating people up in table tennis and it was quite an experience waking up so early to see Hong Kong so deserted. The activities were fun.
What they can improve on:
They said that they would provide everything, it wasn’t really that case when we went to the school. They kind of told us to buy ice cream with our own money which for me is not so convenient. I brought very limited money to the trip.
There were also ants coming out from the water pipe in my room. Their emergency lights malfunctioned when there was a power shortage. And the products that they in the bamboo club sell are double or triple as much as it costs in Hong Kong, it was meant to be double or triple cheaper.
The camp had a lot of activities, but I think the students paid way too much money. It was as if the camp was stealing money.
My plane ticket wrote herman when it was hermann
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