So how have you guys been? It's been a crazy month filled with camps, dance practices and enrichment classes but school is finally starting... (17 August)
Pretty late compared to other Unis that start on 10 Aug or something.
Anyway the last time I posted was regarding Arts and Sports camp. So just an update, I went for 3 other camps afterwards. First was Kidleidoscope, followed by Freshman Team Building Camp and last but not least, MetamorphoSIS.
I'll explain what each of the camps are individually later on in the post.
Even though I haven't officially been inducted into SMU, I really do love the culture here in SMU. It was really the best choice I could have made for myself. No, I'm not saying that other Unis are bad or anything but personally, SMU is definitely the school for me. I've already attended enrichment classes for IS. (Yes I know, a bit no life... but what to do? JC student no coding background mah.) But anyways, the help that you get from the friends and seniors around in SIS is everything that I could ever ask for.
After all the many camps that I've joined, I got to know many friends and seniors. Friends not only from those in my group but others as well. It's so easy to make friends in SMU. I mean, just by going up to someone and saying "Hi, my name's ______. What's yours?", that person could easily be one of the closest friend you'll ever have.
If any of you are interested in coming to SMU, feel free to approach me to find out more or anything. I'll do my best to help you (:
So for now I'll skip all the ranting and fill you in on the camps.
Kidleidoscope 2015
So Kidleidoscope, or KScope for short, is basically a CSP camp. It focuses more on helping kids I guess as opposed to Inspirar which focuses more on helping the elderly.
So in SMU there's a requirement where you have to complete 80 hours of CIP within your 4 years. Honestly speaking most students would easily exceed the required amount.
Okay so anyway, I was in group 6 and being the crazy people we were, we called ourselved 6 pac. Over-achievers I know but what the heck, we're the Dream Team. And I'm not even exaggerating.
Let's start from Day 1. We basically met up at school and the games were held there. Nothing really exciting coz Day 1 is supposedly very chill. My group stayed over at LABS (SMU's 24hr building where students can study/sleep/eat... you get the point) on the first day coz KScope was a day camp but we were so onz so... yeah.
We didn't lose a single game on day 1! and all of us were so hyped that some other groups thought we were a bit aggressive. But I swear our group is just full of chill yet crazy people haha!
Oh right, one of the highlights of KScope was the tiedye and silkscreen tees. So we got a chance to make our own during camp(:
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| Valerie! And the photobomber Ryan at the back haha. |
On to day 2. We had breakfast at Dhoby Macs before heading down to Sentosa. I swear I'm sick of Sentosa already... Sports Camp, Kscope and Meta all went Sentosa. I swear you cannot run away de haha.
So anyway, the day started off damn rabak already. All the games weren't chill at all. HAHA! If it were up to me, I would say that KScope Sentosa day was more rabz than Sports Camp. Maybe it's just me coz I didn't really put in a lot of effort in Sports Camp haha.
KScope there was this crazy game called Mua Chee. And it's ridiculous.
Basically you have to start of by soaking yourself in water and then running to the checkpoint. From there you have to lie down and start rolling. Your opponent has to do the same as well. But basically we start from two opposite ends. When the 2 meet they have to play scissors paper stone. Winner continues rolling until they meet another opponent or reaches the other checkpoint. The loser has to restart.
It was crazy I swear. You'll get dizzy, abrasions,and all kind of stuff from the game. Imagine rolling all the way to the end to meet another opponent and losing... Wah damn suay larh. But it was on the whole pretty fun.
Oh and did I mention we didn't lost a single game on day 2 as well? BEAT THAT!
So Day 3 is probably the most chill (thank god). After meeting in school and playing some damn chill games, we proceeded to make pencil toppers. Some kiddy stuff that kids made to make their pencils look cooler or some. The after that we basically went to rehearse for performance and create the costumes for our prince and princess.
FTB Run 2 2015
So FTB is basically this compulsory camp that all Freshman have to go through. Most people have heard that it's pretty darn disgusting which is why most people try to find excuses not to go. But me bring the overly enthu camper obviously wanted to see it for myself.
So FTB was immediately after Kscope. Like immediately. Kscope was from 18-20th July and FTB was from 21-23 July. I swear I was damn shagged on the first day. Not sure if others realised but I was definitely not as RARA on the first day as compared to other camps. But I must say that my group wasn't too shabby (:
So just something interesting, on day 1, me beinga clumsy idiot, before the campfire even started, I went and sprained my ankle. Yes I was that stupid. I even blacked out for a moment and they used a stretcher to bring me to the First Aid Room. Like WTH, Damn sia suay. But anyways, thanks to my amazing group mates for sticking with me the whole while. On a side note, I got to sleep on a bed in the first aid room on the first day haha.
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| With them KSCOPE peeps <3 |
So second day was basically games and all. The main highlight was at night definitely (: Performaces and the clubbing segment! Yes I know, what crazy uni would have a clubbing segment in their camp haha! Well, here ya go. The funny thing was by the clubbing session, you could already see me jumping around haha!!!! Even though I was with a sprained ankle. I guess it was from the 2 times I sprained my ankle before. Got so used to it hahaha!
Nothing much happened on the last day that was worth mentioning I guess. We finished up the couple dances and that was about it. We went home pretty early (thank god coz the night before me, Zi Wei, Jing Han and Izza totally didn't sleep haha!).
MetamorphoSIS 2015
I guess this was one of the important camps in my opinion. It was where we learnt much more about what we were going to study. It was where we met friends and seniors in the same course whom we're going to stay in school with. (people say that SIS is also known as "sleep in school" because our course is that "heavy-duty") But I must admit, META is filled with really nice people everywhere! Maybe you won't be able to click with everyone but they were kidding when they said that IS students are super helpful and friendly. I'm actually pretty proud of my group. We went from the shy group to the crazy group. And for that I'm really thankful.
And to anyone who thinks that IS is a course for nerds, think again! I'm definitely not a nerd HAHA. And I can vouch that there are really cool people here in IS.
I mean, just looking at my facis I can say for sure that they're not your typical nerds(: One of my facis is the best beat boxer for VOIX!! BEAT THAT! And 2 of my Kscope facis are from IS as well. And 1 is from Emix! You can't get any cooler hehe.
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| Kscope Facis again! |
So I guess that's all for now guys, I know this was a really long post and I don't even know how many of you even bother reading till the end but if you did, THANK YOU TRUCK LOADS<3 much love xoxo.
Till next time (:
