Tuesday, November 14, 2006
confirmation camp
11th-13th november was The Church of the Holy Trinity's confirmation camp for con 3s in wonderful wonderful MALAYSIA. what fun. so before the camp, i was moping around the house thinking of all the fun things i could be doing if i don't go for camp, one of which includes a shopping spree at a Topshop warehouse where the stuff are REALLY REALLY cheap. another of which would be designing the band uniform AGAIN because a particular gay teacher who was in charge of band had lost the older one. ok, that's not really fun, but i had to do it and i simply had no time after i come back from camp. so i talked to my sister who actually liked her con camp last year and she told me what stuff they did. i really thought it was going to be really really boring. so she told me that i had to have an 'open mind' if i wanted to have fun, i mean like, of course things are gonna get draggy if i had some kind of expectation of how it was going to be and i'd probably be really disappointed. so fine, i went with an open mind.
so we had to meet in church at 6freaking30am. man, i had to tell myself "OPEN MIND OPEN MIND OPEN MIND". and it sucked when i overslept after telling my maid to wake me up at 5, telling clarissa to wake me up when she wakes up and setting 4 alarm clocks. i woke up at 6.30 and rushed like crazy, realising that my maid had overslept too, clarissa had overslept too and i had managed to sleep through all my 4 alarms. strike one. so i woke my mum up asking her to send me to church and i think she was put off about me waking her up so early that she didn't even ask whether i needed a lift home. strike two. when i reached the church, we were just waiting around for heaven-knows-what-for until 7.45 when we boarded the bus. in the meanwhile, our catechist kept taking super lame pictures. strike three. man, i wanted to go home already!
but i had an OPEN MIND, so i tried not to keep thinking of going home, instead i kinda tried to look forward to the activities and stuff. well, the highlight for day one was pretty much realising that our dorms had air-con, haha. and the food was good too, that i gotta be thankful for. oh, and there was also this thing where there were many stations for little lame games like dog and bone, soccer, netball... mainly just ice breakers, but thankfully, it rained, so i was spared of the netball and soccer. and lights out were quite early too, at 12mn and we had ample time to bathe.
the second day was alright, the highlight was this quest game where each of us in the group had a different role, there were warriors, theives, wizards, fighters, preists, healers and i was the oracle. =) they also showed some videos about confirmation and there was one which really struck me, and got me pretty worried too. i mean, i thought i probably deserved to be confirmed after attending cat class for 9 freaking years, from ever since i could remember, hell, i SHOULD be confirmed. but that video made me think, am i really ready? i mean, i am a Catholic yet i don't act like one most of the time and i know i do do some holy stuff once in a while but i really don't think it was good enough. then i realised that it really was a big step. this is my faith we're talking about, my life, my every action i make, and plus, they made it clear that no one could MAKE us confirm if we're not ready. but then afterwards, we had some reflection thing with our group facilitator and it kinda cleared some doubts cus he was saying that it doesn't really matter if we're not being good Catholics, as long as we're WILLING and trying to be one. because of that talk i started to be thankful i went for the camp, otherwise i would still be in the dark about confirmation and oblivious to what it really means.
then there was some reflection thing where they switch all the lights off, put lots of candles around, putting some slow background music and telling us to think about stuff. it was supposed to be really solomn and it usually makes lots of people cry but man, they are such losers at this. it was sooo anti climatic cus whenever it got really deep, one of the facilitators trip on the edge of the stage or someone sneezes really unglamly and makes everyone laugh. total waste of time. then they let us go to bed at a really early time around 11pm making us promise to be asleep at 2. works well for me. =) so i was just aimlessly walking around and i went to the hall to find a bunch of girls thinking of games to play. it was really fun, we just played random games for the first hour, then we asked the guys to join us in a game of dog and bone. we were seriously into it for the next two freaking hours. imagine playing dog and bone for two hours! i really hated that stupid game but i had an OPEN MIND and now, i love that dumb game. aww man, i'm like addicted to it. ok, anyway, there was once during the game when my number was called and i ran up to the 'bone' and when i thought it was a great opportunity, i grabbed it and ran. i was just reaching home when this dude tried to tap me, but instead he kinda pushed and i fell, sliding on my knees across the floor like some rock star. nice. then everyone saw and went "ORHHHHH". then one of my teammates shouted out, "cry! cry!" then i stood up, buried my eyes in clarissa's shoulders and started to fake cry. ahahahah. that was fun.
third day had no highlights at all cus all we did was have a short talk, packed up and made our way back to singapore. what i really hated about the camp was that they kept making us wait. wait for the sound system to set up, wait for evryone to settle down, wait for everything. we did so much waiting that it turned the whole camp boring, with only the exception of the games. i like the talks though, they actually made sense unlike Catholic camp into school where they talk so much for soo long and soo nonsensically that nothing gets into our heads. oh, and guess what happened, at the start, kimberly ho asked me to be her partner. WOW, i was shocked. haha, in the end, she dumped me for another girl and left me with this girl who totally freaked me out. hey, i did try to make friends with her but yeah, she freaked me. so i hung out with clarissa a lot even though we were supposed to stick to our groups and clarissa was not in my group. and i hung out with pao a bit too and gotten NEW friends! wow, the camp was to help us BOND and lookie here, we totally ditched each other and met new people. haha, but i don't mind, i like it as it is, so just let it be. yay
GONE SHOPPING, 11/14/2006 11:42:00 pm
