Unit Leader Training Advance Course...

The feelings in this camp sort of brought out the boy scout in me a few years ago. Yes, this is the camp that really makes you go down back to basics. The building of gadgets to assist daily living in a campsite such as washing area, clothes line, dish washing rack, equipment rack, flagpole, boundary and trenches. Almost the same situation as National Patrol Camp where torrential rain was expected. That created a very hard environment that we now as leaders for our boys find very hard to experience as there was no conditioning before. Clothes were soaked with rain, floorboards on which we slept on had ants and bugs. Mosquitoes were apparent as the after rain effect always brought them along. Experiencing heavy flooding making our shoes and boots soaked. Despite all these, Synergist Patrol made up of Jazreel, Sze Jia, Aru, Kang Wei, Hong Jian aka Jeff, Caleb and myself brave through it together. I have to say that i was weaker during this camp as i was not as my top form sadly. This was experienced in day 1 where equipment shifting made me really tired. This did not stopped me and i continue putting my best effort from day 2 on words of course with about a hundred plus insect bites the night before.

I really love the camp thanks to Mr. KC Lai. Even though the format was kind of awkward as it was catered towards the teachers, the experiences were special. The cooking of meals, setting up of a home, pioneering, orienteering, axeman ship, practicals on pressure lamps, the campfire, the Patrol in Councils, and the backwoodsman experience all gave that special boy scout touch. Well now that the advance course is over, time to start working on my wood badge scheme and maybe the Baden Powell Award as Rover Scout for Rovers.

The camp rocks!