HI PPL!!! :D I havn't posted for a long time and so I shall post now... (:
Ok so here's a calendar of my LONG June hols:
1-2 June:Slack at home XD 3 June:Civil Defence NPCC Course 3-5 June:NPCC Annual Unit Camp 6-13 June:INSPIRE'10 Street Sales on random dates and Slack even more :D 14 June:SANA NPCC Course 15-16 June:Stay at home 17 June:CARP NPCC Activity (CIP @ Ren Ci) 18 June:INSPIRE'10 Concert 19 June:CARP NPCC Activity (CIP @ Ren Ci) 20-21 June:Stay at home again ^^
Thats until today so I shall post more things on my hols after the hols :D
Ok so the holidays we have been awaiting for so long is FINALLY here!!! :DDDD However, when i post this it is almost over DDDD: Hmm ok so a summary on my hols. Busier than any June Holiday I have had in my entire 14 years and also definitely more enriching :D
I did alot of CIP this June because of NPCC and cause I was in INSPIRE'10 Finance Comm.Hmm thats probably thanks to Woon Yee for asking me to join XD
So to kick start my hols I had the NPCC Annual Unit Camp where cadets from all levels can bond and have a great time :D On the first day,however,the sec 2s had a Civil Defence Course.Anyway, back to the camp.The 3 days were definitely filled with fun and laughter but still there was also a downside as there is to everything.But overall it was GREAT!!! The cadets from sec 1-3 were split into 8 grps while the sec 4s were like the coordinators and stuff.The camp was planned by the Sec 3s.So the theme of the camp was "Nations At War". There was even an introductory video which I am going to attach here :D
So the INSPIRE'10 Street Sales was the next thing which I did that was rather important in my June Hols.
So what we did was sell tickets by going door-to-door and selling tickets for the concert,Heartbeat,which was held on 18 June at 7.30pm.So yea each ticket was priced at $12 each. Even though many tickets were sold,I noticed alot of empty seats in the Nanyang Auditorium.Many people whom we tried to sell the tickets to did not buy.Even though they did not buy,they also donated in cash.Oh and I forgot to mention that the funds collected would go to the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund which is a project organised by The Straits Times to help primary school students who were less well off.
So yea it wasn't the success that we were hoping for.But I sold like 8 tickets? Haha I felt it was enough but well it didn't seem enough to be able to fill the Nanyang Auditorium... Selling tickets was fun.You get to meet all kinds of people.From generous people who bought 4 tickets at one go to cautious people who opens the door,see strangers and immediately close the doors. I felt that selling tickets and helping the less fortunate was a better way of spending time as compared to staying at home and not doing anything constructive.
So on the 14th of June had another NPCC event which was SANA course.SANA stands for Singapore Anti Narcotics Association.Over there we learnt about the negative effects of drugs and their aim was to use us students to spread this information to our families and friends. So the course was very educational and there were many shocking things such as people sniffing glue from the age of 11 in Singapore.So,we had to take a test at the end of the course and I scored 28/30 which I felt was not bad but there were others who scored full marks xP
So after that,on the 17th, had CARP. It was another CIP thing.For this CARP,we had to go to Ren Ci Hospital and like help out.So when we went there,there were about 30 patients in 1 ward.So yea.About 5 students were in charge of 1 ward.We had to push the patients outside on their wheelchairs and talk to them,and even feed some of them!Many of them gave us advice such as we have to study hard and things like that.From this trip,I learned that we had to be patient with them as they can be rather long winded and their movements were slow.
So finally on the 18th,I went to the INSPIRE'10 concert held at Nanyang Auditorium with my fellow Comm members,Xin Yi and Lucas.We were supposed to meet at 6.30pm at Serene Centre but when I reached at 6.30pm,no one was there.So I waited till abt 7.00pm before I saw Lucas.He was late due to the bus so yea.Xin Yi on the other hand was late because she went back home to change out of her school uniform.But her house wasn't that far away so she still made it in time for the concert.Since we did not have time to have dinner at Serene Centre,we went to Macdonalds and had take aways which we ate on the way.So the concert was rather entertaining with performers from different age groups and different schools.The age of the performers were from people at the age of 35 to people at the age of 12.The concert lasted about 1 and a half hours from 7.30pm to abt 9.00pm.
On the 19th,a Saturday, had another CARP at Ren Ci.So it was the same thing again just that with different patients.
So after a busy week,I still could not rest as I had tuition the next day and thus had to wake up at 6.30am. My tuition was from 8am to 12pm and another one from 3pm to 5pm. Yea so that was my "eventful" holiday so far and I will be going for another NPCC activity tomorrow at 10am and finishes at 6.30pm.They say its supposed to be fun but we shall see ;) Haha! (: that will be all of my holiday for now (:
