a mixture of white chalk and hidden laughters.: KA Youth Camp '07

ok, so i guess i really delayed this post. i think its about time i finnished the events that happened there.

so here goes.

the next morning i woke up feeling all cold. it was quite a contrast to the not so hot heat of the night before. it started getting colder and colder from about 5-6am in the morning. by the time it was 7, it was freaking cold. plus the fans turned on at full blast didn't help.

so anyway, after washing up and brushing the teeth and all that other things you do when you get up in the morning, some of us went down to the docks to hop on the canoe for an early morning paddle, and some just laid around the place still half asleep.

not long later, the bell rang twice, calling all the hungry animals to breakfast. but unlike animals, we didn't get food that were already prepared and ready for eating. we had to cook our food. well we did have some bread and noodles, but we still had to cook our food.

why?

well because whats breakfast without eggs and ham?

whats cooler than having eggs and ham for breakfast?

well an all you can cook and eat eggs and ham buffet!

thats right, we made so many things. almost every thing you can think of.

there was eggs, ham, and bread.

so when we stepped out, we saw this.

what did we make?

we made sunny side ups, scrambled eggs, french toast, ham, ham and eggs, burnt ham and eggs, burnt eggs, ham sandwich, ham and egg sandwich, and every other ham and eggs and bread munchies you can think of.

we even had a chef to cook our food for us.

who was the chef?

we had non other than chef gifford! well ok, he is a chef in training.

i even tried cooking, wasn't that bad actually. i even made french toast, ham, eggs etc. kinda good for a person who doesn't cook anything other than chicken wings and burger patties in BBQ parties.

mmmm... scrambled eggs.

anyway, after all that breakfast, we all ran around the farm, exploring and stuff.

then it came to games, it was a kinda of amazing race kinda thing. we had to run around the farm completing tasks like how many different kinds of fruit trees are there in the farm, how many types of animals are there and how many of them are there, obstacle courses and stuff.

other activities that we were made to do was make a tower and be sure to balance a marble on top of it. this is what my team made.

well you cant see the marble, but it is actually in the middle of that tower made of straws.

we had sessions and all during the course of the day too. had activities like game shows etc.

well later in the evening, after all that running around, acting, and stuff, we had a whole load of free time to kill. what did we do with it?

well we created our own fun.

we "made" people take a dip in the icky pond. about half the camp was in the pond swimming with the fishes. the pond is so nasty, that when you get pushed in and you feet hits the ground, you never want to let it touch the ground again.

why?

well what else? because the ground is all full of fish poop and moss and stuff. so when your foot touches the bottom of the pond, it actually sinks in like 4 inches, maybe more! plus the pond water is not the kinda water you would want in your mouth. but never the less, sacrifices has to be made when you want other people to get that icky water in their mouth.

so after all that we had our camp fire mass. we had it at the stargazers point, so it was pretty cool. had a huge bonfire too.

*mass - church service

so while preparing for service to start, we sang songs and stuff. all of a sudden, TERMITE MATING SEASON ATTACK!!!

there was termites everywhere. probably because it rained for a but a while before, so it must have triggered the termites to release their sex hungry males and females into the air. and let me tell you, these termites were HUGE!

want to know how big they are? well put your palm in front of your face, turn it around so the back faces you, then look at your smallest finger. on that smallest finger, look at the finger nail. don't have a finger nail there? well then look at your other hand. still don't have one, then borrow the hand of the person closest to you. no one around you? then you must be a wierdo, cause nobody wants to come near you due to you not having little pinky finger nails.

so anyway here is a scene during service.

kinda cool huh?

well after service, we all went for our supper. had BBQ supper. mr andrew made all the food. and let me tell you, the chicken wings were superb! there was lamb chops and other food which i don't seem to remember at the moment. only thing different this time was that there was no bell to tell us that the grub was ready. we must have been so hungry that we actually smelled the scent of the food from the stargazers point, which was pretty far away.

so we had our grub and had the rest of the night to do what ever we wanted. what did we do? well we sat in the balcony/living area on the sofas and talked while playing cards.

remember when i said that there were giant termites everywhere? well while talking and playing cards, we also mostly spent our time swatting the termites that landed on us. and for your information, you would never want to get bitten by one of these suckers. their heads are FREGGIN HUGE! their pincers would probably cut your head off. well thats if you are the size of your pinky finger nail.

so what did most of us do? we decided that it would be best if we helped feed the fishes in the pond. so when ever we caught one, we pulled out its wings and tossed them into the pond which was right behind the sofa i was sitting on.

later on, someone had a fantastic idea. this person suggested that we collect all the termites in a cup and then throw them all out at one go. so we sat, talked, caught termites, stared into the nothingness, and caught more termites. at the end of the day we must have caught like 50 or so termites. here is what we got.

pretty sick huh?

well here is something even more sick

yes, you are seeing right, 2 termites doing 'it'. there were even cases of gangbangs. funny thing is, with every mate, you could actually see the termite queen's abdomen getting bigger and bigger! i mean from what we saw, this termite took on about 5 guys, all in the duration of less than 1 minute! talk about extra fast sex.

well after collecting the termites, we cast them out into the pond.

therefore ant grows up, ant mates, ant gets captured by human, ant gets wings torn off, ant gets thrown into cup, ant gets thrown into pond, fish eats ant, and finally the best part, man eats fish. the circle of life continues.

after all that action, we headed over to the campfire. what for? well to tell ghost stories of course. we even had it "are you afraid of the dark" style. just that instead of some magic dust that makes the fire blow up, we used flammable liquids, and instead of a bucket of water to put out the fire at the end of the session, we used inigo's pee. so yeah, the fire was a good place to go to escape the termite mating frenzy. all the lights were out and there was only the light of the bonfire. so any termites that try to get attracted to this light, will most certainly go **POOF**

well this night, same as the other, the older ones went to sleep early again. the only thing different was that jon and ted was on their way for a visit. by the time they got there i was alseep.

when i suddenly woke up, i felt that my face was feeling a little minty. so i took my hand and tried to scratch it. i ended up with freggin tooth paste on my left cheek. i got up, saw some of the younger ones sitting on the sofa and here is what i said:

noel: seriously, fuck you guys.

others: wtf?! we didn't do anything.

then i replied again.

noel: seriously...... fuck you guys.

well me, not liking to be disturbed when asleep, especially when it comes to tooth paste was really groggy when i woke up. so i didn't even notice who was around. so i got up and walked to the toilet. on my way back i saw this fat figure walking out of the house. i didn't really bother who that was cause all i wanted to do was get back to sleep.

next morning, i woke up to find that i was not the only one that was sabotaged. a few others also got hit by the infamous white colgate paste.

only later on did i find out that it was ted who plaid the prank. what happened was that when i woke up, he was actually there. he just stood in front of a pillar, pulled out his hood over his head, and i walked right pass him without even noticing he was there. talk about invisible cloaks.

as usual, the morning was all cold and stuff.

but this morning was not as normal as it should have been. why? because it was primo's birthday!

what happens to people on their birthdays?
well they get pushed into ponds.

so what happened this morning was primo just finished going for a few rounds around the pond with the kayak, when he got out, he was adjusting the boat and all. what did i do? well he was standing right at the edge of the dock.

then all of a sudden when he least expected it, he felt a thud and then all he could feel was wet water and icky ground on his feet.

well right after that i bolted away from the scene. didn't want to go in too.

so anyways had our usual activities and food and stuff. finally it was time to go home.

but before going home, i had to do one thing! whats a trip out to the outskirts without some sort of climbing. so what else did i do? i ran up to the nearest rock face i could find and do some bouldering? well better than that. there was buildering!

*buildering - bouldering, but on buildings. in other words, climbing on buildings.

took group photos!

well later on we packed up and took our leave. it was back to the 200 meter walk to the main road, and up on the bus. later on back to the city.

here are a few pics that i took.