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SO over there we had river tracing, High Element activities, Mountain climbing and Service Learning. The instructors are all damn nice. They were the main reason why the whole course rocked actually. So I will be giving you a brief view on how the course went. Any chinese will be in 简体 and not in 繁体 cos i lazy go find the option. Outward Bound Taiwan 15 - 24 May 2010. Day 1: Arrival (2010.05.16) Ok this I have to say. I only brought along my school bag, another travel bag and a shoe bag. My check in luggage was my travel bag which weighed bout 6kg. When the rest of them saw my puny luggage, they all said I would die there cos I probably wouldn't have enough clothes. Plus all of them brought a suitcases that weighed around 12 kg. Plus a hand carry bag and a shoe bag. Hahahah. Arrived at 桃园机场 at about 1730 hours. Looks slightly differen from the last time I was there. Think they did some renovations. Got my luggage, then took a bus to 渴望基地 桃园县龙潭乡高原村渴望路428号 which was essentially our base camp. Met the instructors there. They were 牛哥，胡瓜，小眼，小乐，贞瑜，小武，阿达. A bunch of fine people. Had a bento-like dinner with weird vegetables that looked like the plants that were growing there. Zzzz. And the weather was quite cold at 21 degrees. Plus there was wind and extremely thick fog. and that area was standing at 400+m above sea level. Lol higher than Bukit Timah Hill. Win. So that area was called 龙潭 because fogs like that day were common. And in olden times when there were fog, people thought that a dragon would come out. So that's how it got its name. Okay so after a rather painful dinner, we had a sharing session which was about our expectations for this camp. So we went in a circle and took turns to say ours. Mine was 吸取经验 开阔视野. Then when everyone hear liao started to "wah" here "wah" there cause they don't believe my chinese so good. Hahhaha. Then we had to write our expectations on a piece of cloth. So when I was writing mine I realised that I forgot how to write 取 so I suddenly stopped. Then they all started laughing again. Nabeh. Lol. But I remembered in the end so it was cool. Then we had to make out last calls to our family and friends to say our last words cos we had to leave our valuables with them. Sad. So after that was tent pitching. So we had to pitch our tents in the cold and fog. Zzz. So we just slept in our jeans cos we lazy to change. Their tents were damn good 8-men tents. So I slept with YongXiang, QinJiang, GuanKoi and Betrick. Couldn't sleep. So we started cocking. And then I began to suspect that I had forgotten to bring any plastic bags.(FTW!) Then cock halfway don't know why but YongXiang started to get high and called me dildo boy and began to laugh at himself. Uh okay lor... So we fell asleep at bout 12+ When I was just a chao recruit, I asked my Sergeant what would I be. Day 2: 朔溪 (2010.05.16) Woke up cold. The fog was clearing. Went to brush my teeth and found out that there was hot water in the toilet!(Which brought a lot of joy to the rest.) So we fell in at 630 in sports gear. And the sun was shinning brightly already. Had a morning run of supposedly 3km but we felt that it was definitely less than that. So we ran around that area la. Saw some tea leaves fields. So cool. Plus the fog was still around so we couldn't see clearly after 3m or something. Then halfway through QinJiang told me that a frog got owned.(A car ran over it.) But I didn't get to see it.): After that we drew our cooking utensils. But I forgot what we had for breakfast liao. Think its some tuna sandwich but I don't eat tuna one so I took mor lettuce. Yay. So our activity that day was River-Tracing. Went to draw our stuff, then left in a bus. The river was in 花莲 so the bus ride took about 1h. So all of us fell asleep on the bus. Shiok. The name of the river was 梅花溪 if I remembered correctly. And at the base of the river was some hot spring resort and we had to put our bags in the toilets there. Then everyone inside the resort were like staring at us when we wore our wetsuits in like some weirdos like that. The river was damn cold, but nice. And it was about 3km. So trace trace trace until bout halfway then came across a point where there was a mini waterfall bout 2.5m high. Then all of us had to climb up using the wall beside it. Then not long after that we came across another point where again water was gushing down on us but this time not so easy, cos it was between 2 smooth 1.5m rocks. So I was the last guy to go up after pushing some of the others up. Due to the lack of friction and spots to push myself up, I had a tough time getting up. Thanks to those who helped me. Then at the mid-point we stopped for lunch. Had to cook instant noodles so yes, we brought our utensils. So basically, we were at the side of the river. But due to the uneven terrain, we spilled one part of it. Heh. So after that the instructors taught us how to pee in the river. So all you have to do is put your ass into the water and smile! So before we carried on with our journey, YongXiang, GuanKoi, JingZhan and a few others started to sink their asses down and smile at us. Tsk. So we continued our way up to the top and at the top, we saw a very nice waterfall which was about 10m high. Then we had to go up to about 1.5m to jump into the centre of the pool. Omg it was damn damn shiok. So after that we went out and back to the resort to bathe and stuff. They provide soap there luh! So imba. So all of us were damn happy. Hee. Following that was our hour long journey back to base camp. All of us slept on the way back again. Had to cook spaghetti for dinner. Quite nice quite nice. Hahaha. Then we had an equipment check to see if we got the correct clothing and gear for the climb. And some first aid course and I learnt some bandaging skills but other than that, I didn't really catch anything else cos I was damn seh already. Hee. Then after the lessons we went back to sleep. Down by the river! Okay I'm going to stop here. I spent the whole day thinking of all these and trying to rephrase everything that I copied in my Outward Bound journal. Tell you all more tomorrow la. :D P.S: Oh yah my mum went to perm her hair. o.o And my house got one new ceiling fan. Yay. 07:59  |
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