Combined UG Expedition Trip Part II

By Imroatu

Here's my reflection on the Sarawak trip. I really enjoyed our trip as I tried the "TARZAN thingy". Although I'm afraid, I pushed myself up to try it. I like the part where we needed to do the obstacle ropes. This part made us to learn how to build teamwork as doing it as a group was easier. The only one which I did not try was the high ropes. I would rather choose the type we have in Singapore rather than this. In Singapore, there would be a belayer which helped to control your movements better. I didn't thought that I had reached to the SUMMIT!! At last!! Throughout this trekking trip, I helped all my friends to push themselves up although it was so tiring. It was quite fun actually. When it's time for us to come down from the summit, I had a lot of fun jumping, sliding down and climbing down from the ropes. That's al i could share

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By Surya

This expedition has made me realise what I'm capable of and what I'm not. It helped me in many ways like pushing my limits further, overcoming an obstacles with courage and increase my motivation! I also learnt that my strength is courage . I didn't really notice that I had it all along but i was scared to let people know that; I didn't really know why until the day that we had to do high element course. I can easily recall it because it was funny at first it was like bravado and all but as soon as I went to the third element , *poof !* all hope was gone. I was standing there, unmoving as if a monkey was looking at me. Ms Bong was shouting "You can do this Surya!! You step on it on 1... 2... 3!"

But I never moved an inch. Mr Lim came by; he joined Ms Bong and together they shouted "1 ... 2 ... 3!" as I stepped on it half-way. I felt the steps shaking. I falsely accused Hakim for shaking it but it was my leg that shook violently and I cried! To cut the story, I finally made it alive. Phew! Luckily that's over. Unfortunately, I was made the courageous cadet along with Raihan and Edmund. The mountain climbing was very hard. I felt dizzy and wanted to vomit because of all the steep slopes plus the climbing! I fell down a lot and the hardest part was the ropes and ladders. Mr Lim had to climb up with me, guided me and told me which foot went first. Fortunately, we made it to the top but I wasn't there to hold the NCDCC flag . *sniff sniff* To end the expedition , we went shopping and sight-seeing. I bought some souvenirs for my family & a hand-puppet for myself. It was an amazing expedition of my life!

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By Afiah

On the first day we went to school around 7.30am. My friend picked me up and went to school together. We assembled around 8.30am. Mr Aidil gave us our T-shirts and whistles Around 9, we left school for Changi Airport. We checked in our bags and went for breakfast. After breakfast we said farewell to our parents and reached Sarawak at around 3 and took a bus to Camp Permai. The journey took around an hour, and everybody slept in the bus. We reached Camp Permai rainforest around 3.30pm. Our teachers divided us into groups and gave us our cabin number and keys. After that we had a briefing in one of the halls and then to our bunk then at 6.30pm we went to the cafe for our dinner. After dinner, we had some free time which meant we could go back to our cabin and sleep. But we couldn’t sleep so we had a talk and got to know Kartina and Jelina more closer. Both were friendly and talked with them till around 10pm when everyone went to sleep. On the second day after breakfast we are divided into groups to do obstacle course. In this course we needed to have teamwork and co-operate with each other. After lunch my group was told to do the high ropes. Everyone including myself was scared but we still had to do it. After the high ropes course, we went to our cabin to wash up then went for dinner. After dinner we had our briefing about the next day’s trekking. After that we went back to our cabin to sleep

The next day, we woke at 6am in the morning. After bathing, we went for our breakfast at the cafe and after got ready for our trekking. We started trekking around 8.30am and we ended up at around 5pm. After that we went straight to our resort and washed up, then went for dinner and went back to the cabin to sleep.

On day four, we woke at 6am again, and later went for the low ropes course. After that, we had lunch,then went shopping! We shopped until 8.30pm. On the last day in Sarawak, we had breakfast then said goodbye to the resort and instructors. After that, we took a flight back to Singapore. Lastly I want to congratulate Surya Binte Abdul Rahman , Muhd Raihan Bin Razali, Edmund Teo and Muhd Hakim Bin Duraimi for winning the Award of Confidence and Best Cadet award.