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CCA TEAM BUILDING 2007 (19/1/2007 - 20/1/2007)

CCA team building 2007 has finally ended. What an enriching and fun experience for us! although it was tiring and forced me to sleep for more than 12 hours yesterday nite but it was really worthwhile. Started our dry runs last year and had a total of 6 dry runs before the real thing, it was really a very tough project to undertake. The first major project that ODAC had so far, the pressure was on us to make this a success. Heard from the teachers how well the previous batch of J2s did for the event, we were more pressurized to be on par or even better than them. Left for the campsite on friday itself after school to prepare all the things needed and start with the dry runs. Me, mel and xiuhui left the campsite to buy dinner, supper and breakfast for the ODACers. So, went to GIANT supermarket at vivo to buy all the groceries needed for both days. Had any bags to carry back to the campsite including 28 packets of chicken rice for dinner. Upon reaching there, had dinner before all the verbal dry runs again. The night ended quite late and we all went to sleep in our cosy doms.

Woke up at 5am next day to prepare for the event itself. Had a quick breakfast before me and mel went to harbourfront MRT to pick the CCAs up. They had to meet at 7am but obviously a lot of them were late. So had to dispatch 2 buses at different times. There was a problem of latecoming as one of the NEL trains broke down. So, had to start the event at around 10 mins late. The entire programme ran quite smoothly as the weather was fine and NICE. I must say, i am really thankful that i took cricket girls!! they are really very cooperative and very funny people! so, had no problem mixing with them and facilitating them. They completed their station games quite smoothly and went for lunch which came late!! so they started teaching us how to play their games (: lunch was quite nice after hearing the positive feedback by the cricket girls themselves. However, the rain started pouring after lunch. So, we had to play mass games in the hall which i heard the cricket girls were so funny!! it was somewhat a game of catching. So, the girls all ran to a room and locked themselves up to prevent themselves from being caught!! hahah..so SMART!! luckily, the storm somewhat cleared up and we get to go to the high elements station!! i must say i am so proud of the cricket girls for daring to try the high elements station (: it was really very participative and brave of them to try. CRICKET GIRLS ROCKS!! some of those who told us that they were scared of heights also managed to complete the station!! however, the rain spoiled our mood again as we could not finish the rotation before we had to keep all our things. So, we went for our final debrief. Final debrief was fun and enriching as we asked them to do what we prepared for them, TTI and the appreciative note to their fellow peers by giving them a notebook each. It was really encouraging to see them bond better as a CCA and even with us. When we told them that this event is going to end already, they still didn't want to go. So happy that they really enjoyed the day!! although they did not win the grand prize, it was really good to see that we really succeeded in our task for team-building!! A really meaningful and fulfilling day for me and mel i believe. Thanx mel for helping out so much to facilitate them too!! WE ROX!

After they left, we had ODAC de-brief which lasted for around 1.5 hours?? had many positive feedbacks from the teachers as well as our fellow peers. But the day had to end on a sour note with him saying something bad again :/ relax man.. we shall not bother on what he said. We will just have to do everything by ourselves and make all the events as successful or even more successful than this!! ODAC rocks!!

Some pics taken during CCA team-building 2007

The facils for cricket girls

Shopping for groceries

Done with shopping

Our doms

top left: ice-breakers, top right: pass the water, bottom left: wireless connection, bottom right: great pearl caper

LUNCH TIME!!

Wearing of harness and preparing for high-elements

Belaying the cricket girls

Well done cricket girls!!