the mousepotato :): Peer lite training

this few days - wed to sat, i attended the peer lite training camp. i really really enjoyed it! made friends with more ppl including my seniors. at the end of it(on sat), i really felt so unhappy that the camp ended so early! i had realised that some peer lite seniors were really funny and cool. and some of them were really nice and approachable. and i would miss all that had happened during the camp.

on the first day(wednesday),

i still remember how nervous i was, cos i was really clueless about what was being a peer lite all about and whether i would enjoy myself. i met up with esther and santhiya and then we were waiting at peer lite board as we didnt noe where on earth to go, and there was not a peerlite in sight. we didnt realise that it was stated right under our noses that we were to assemble at the ava theatrette(not sure how to spell). then we saw it, then we went there.. everyone was there already and we just sneaked in and we didnt get caught!

we had singspiration first, i didnt sing cos i couldnt see the words on the screen(cos i was too short...) and there was once we had to jump(i hate jumping to songs!), the peerlite senior to my right, diana, held my arm and started jumping, so i had to jump, n i was jumping without singing, how weird.

then miss kok gave an introduction of what was being a peer lite about and what was expected of us. half of me understood, the other half in some wonderland.

next we got into our group, i was in group three(different group from esther so this made me very reserved.) we introduced ourselves and then we had to come up with a group name. after some discussion, we came up the very special name LAICEPS. it is 'special' spelt backwards. lol how special, i bet no one has ever thought of that. it somehow reminds me of some body part cos it sounds like the sibling of the biceps and triceps.

then it was time for our real training to start, which is a few of us had to train as peer lites in the situation of conducting lessons with the sec 1s. and the seniors had to pretend to be sec 1s. so our job was to deal with all the 'naughty students', 'emo students' and whatever might come by. haha, i must say that our seniors did a very good job in making us feel terrorised by what was to come upon us next year. lol

then we had played the teambuilding games and guess what! my team came in first overall, i must say that we are very good sportsmen!

the 2nd day(thursday),

had singspiration. this time was better as everyone sat at the front, however the problem was that i didnt noe the tune of the songs, so i didnt sing again.

then we went straight to our leeson activity, this time i had to conduct the lesson together with shakila nad ru yuan, i was very blur and of course i didnt do a fantastic job. but the seniors gave us encouragement that we were all learning and that everyone would make mistakes at the first try.

then up next was the crazy flour game, as u the pricing of flour has been raised, so i wonder how the senior had the budget to buy so much flour! well, back to the focus, we had to use our mouths to pick up marshmallows from a mountain of flour.so in the end everyone ate flour, breathe flour and had flour-tipped noses! lol, it was quite a sight! but again, my group LAICEPS won this challenge again!

the 3rd day(friday),
this day, i find that it was the least interesting, so i also cant remember much. lol. as usual, we had singspiration, followed by lesson activity. i wasnt in charge this time, so i just listened and participated. then we had team building game, which was the caterpillar game, we had to go roung and scissors paper stone with someone, the loser had to go behind the winner. then the first person in the whole chain would be the winner. i almost became the winner but i lost the very last round, so i wasnt the overall winner.. :( so my group did not win first this time, however we were first overall for our points for all the games played.

the 4th and very last day(saturday),
this day was full day activity, it was the most exciting day and the most team bonding for my team. as very usual, singspiration first, then we had the teambuilding game. it was to melt then big chunk of ice the fastest we could, i shall skip the details and move on to the results, my group was 4th, not too bad though. then we had two lesson activities. the seniors STILL creating a lot of havoc!

then it was lunch time. we ate curry, fishball and a nugget with rice. not bad lah, but some of my poor team mates could not eat spicy, and with the seniors insisting that we had to eat the styrofoam box clean, i had to help her eat.

after that,we had another game activity, that was the shoe factory. wow, i must that it was really nice to see a whole mass of 80plus of us doing the same action in a circle. it was really beautiful, like some syncronisation. i really enjoyed myself in this game. then we played queen of the jungle. we stood up and had to sing a tune while we walked and some seniors were i the middle doing the action. u noe that we really resembled some tribe in africa chanting mantras while we walked round and round.

then we had lesson activity, i was incharge with mabel, i msut say that i really improved, furthermore, my group leader charmaine had only compliments about our performance. :)

then another lesson, by this time all of the juniors in my group had done very well and had shown great improvement from when we first came in.

later on, we had tea break, ate an egg tart and a chicken wing. they were surprisingly filling.
then we were briefed that we were going out to find our dinner. yay! i was so excited. my group received the theme which is 'under the sea'. so we went to heartland mall. went to the cold storage and skp, bought all the stuff and then we went t o the nearby coffee shop to buy seafood hor fun. then we went back to school. we had quite an adventure on the way back to school. my group were at t he bus stop that only provided the bus 113 service, and we weren't lazy ppl, we walked down further to the bus stop which provided 3 bus services. though we missed a 53, my group and amada liew's group got on the 62 bus in time. cos there was another group whichwere too lazy to walk a first, then when they finally walked, they missed 2 busses in a row! lol.

went back to school, prepared the dinner. the tuna on ritz biscuits were exceptionally nice! :). btw, my group emerged top again for the dinner contest! whoo!
then it was time to perform an item for the finale night. i was so nervous that i tripped on a few lines or so. then we had prize presentation. my group of course came in first! we received cute little cacti, one each. i shall show u the pic further down.

after that, we had a every touching end to the night, we formed a hugh cirle and then sang the song 'carry your candle'. everyone swayed to the song whilst hold the cute candles we were given.

then my sweet seniors gave my everyone in my group a sweet present. i shall miss them so!

okay here are the pics of the prezzies!

the cactus

top view of the very sweet cactus

the candle given to everyone of us in the group, given by our seniors (thanks seniors! u all rawk! seniors- diana, lim xi, valery, charmaine and alicia)