Fall In
Gadget tying
Orienteering
Drills
Fall Out

The activities on Friday's Girl Guides were interesting, first we had Gadget Tying, tying the 12'' poles onto the 72'' poles was quite okay as I've done it before but tying two poles together while blindfolded was something very new to me and i didn't manage to tie finish the two poles together. My friend however, managed to tie the two poles together and did it quite well. Seeing that, I felt quite embarrassed as if she could do it, why couldn't I? Thus, I feel that I need to practise Gadget Tying on my own and try to tie the standard Square Lash within the standard time.

After Gadget Tying, we did Orienteering and my patrol had the shortest route so we felt that we needed to come back to school the first since we travelled the least. My Sec 2's carried the backpack for the first half of the way, i took over one of the backpack's after that. The last part of the route, we had to climb up a hill to reach the school, just then we saw Sparrow reaching the school soon too and we ran back to the concourse, arriving first just as we felt we needed to. Orienteering is actually very fun as I got to know the location of a certain place, the name of somewhere I had passed by many times before and how to get to the Bedok Stadium from our school( I had never walked there before ). Besides that, it teaches me how to read maps and find my way if I ever get lost.

Lastly, we had Drills. The weather was not hot and the air was cooling so our seniors expected us to do our Drills well. I feel that we could've performed better if we just listened to the timer and locked our arms, so as to keep our balance, then we could turn, lift our legs to 90 degrees pointed down and bang at the same time. We just need to practise more, then I think we will perform quite well.

-Natasha

Hello XD

Today for Guide activity, we did 3 main things.

The first activity we did was gadget tying. We sec2s were told to go to 1 Perseverance classroom [I think X)] to fall in. There, we were given 2 minutes to tie a standard square lash. After that, we were given 30 seconds to untie the gadget. We repeated the above another time, when the ICs told us that we would try to tie a square lash BLINDFOLDED. I was a little surprised as I never thought that it would be possible to tie a square lash blindfolded. Haha:D we were given 3 minutes to tie the square lash. I was able to complete the tying in 2+mins, but I overlapped at some parts. Then, sec2s went to 1 Respect classroom [I think again XD]. There, we were told to join our patrols. In our patrols, we had to tie a shoe rack in 10 mins.

After gadgetying, we had neighbourhood orienteering in our patrols:DD we were given a map with another paper giving the grid references. In our patrols, we had to find out the places that we were supposed to go. However, my patrol screwed up and read the map wrongly and ended up having to identify our destinations again. Luckily, we did not take much time, and managed to find the correct places. We then proceeded out of the main school gate to our first station – Tanamera Crest. It only took us a while to walk from AHS to the condominium. After taking the photograph, we then moved on to our next destination, which was the playground at Pari Dedap Walk. As it was quite near to the condominium, we could reach the playground in around 10 minutes. Our next and last station before going back to the school was the Lions’ Home for the Elders. As I live quite near to the home, I was able to lead my patrol to our station without much difficulty :D Next, we proceeded back to school. As majority of the patrol was already quite tired, we brisk walked back to AHS. Along the way back we were deciding on whether to run back or to continue at a steady pace. We finally decided on running short distances, and walking after that for another short distance. After a tiring journey back to school, we finally reached. We had took a total of 1 hour for the whole orienteering, and came in 6th. We then had patrol interaction for a while.

Our third main activity was a short drill session. The sec3s were in charge of sec2s and we marched for a while. After that, we were dismissed. We then had an interaction session with Yijing Ma’am. As a batch, we talked with Yijing Ma’am about many different topics, from relationships with other CCAs to scandals. Haha XD We only ended at about 6.48PM and we were quite surprised that we had interacted for about an hour. :D

Overall, I really enjoyed today’s activity, especially the neighbourhood orienteering as well as the interaction session. However, I feel that I could have put in more effort during gadgetying as the ICs mentioned that my frapping could be tighter. I also feel that the neighbourhood orienteering helped me to put my orienteering skills to test, and I hope there will be another orienteering session some time again. :D I think that today’s activity was great! :D

-Rachel (Sec2)


Today’s Friday Activity could probably be summed up in a single word – FUN. (Haha!) Ok, it was probably not that fun when we had to walk under the hot afternoon sun, but still I think it was fun. That was fun-ny.

Now, to start the ball rolling, our first activity for today was Gadget Tying in 1SOMETHING. The first ‘part’ of the activity was no more than a humdrum routine of repeated Square-lash tying and pulling of twines.. HAHA! That certainly did help our juniors (not forgetting ourselves) improve on their (and our) Gadget Tying skills. Do you call them ‘skills’? Ok, I think so.

Then came the fun. We were turned into blind men (with the help of blindfolds and our eyelids, LOL) and were told to tie a Square lash in that manner. My square lash turned out to be not so much of a disaster as I’ve expected it to be. Also, many Sec1s and 3s did tie square lashes they are most proud of. The activity was not only creative, but was also super extremely ultra-engaging.

What we’ve learnt may also be put into good practical use in times of emergency, such as the setting up of an emergency shelter in pitch-blackness. (This is what the kind Jia-En told me.)

Later on, our Sec2 juniors joined us as a Patrol and we proceeded to tie a mini shoe rack suitable for huge shoes. Kingfisher’s shoe rack did not look VERY nice but I felt it was still quite presentable. (You must be thinking, ‘Of course you would say that’.)

After gadget tying, the company gathered in the concourse for a briefing on Orienteering. General rules and instructions such as the to-dos during an emergency were addressed. This helped get the company to be more ‘mentally-prepared’ – like knowing what to do should a Patrol member fall unconscious (just kidding). Maps were also handed out to individual patrols, and they quickly plotted the points as well as planned their routes.

Before long, all 8 patrols had already set out for their neighbourhood hike, with Sunflower, Flowerpecker, and Kingfisher leaving last. Although navigation was not a problem, the hike itself was rather tiring, but not extremely tiring (I think I’m undecided). (Yes, tell me you share my sentiments!!)

The 3 checkpoints Kingfisher went to were the Simpang Bedok Post Office, Bedok Methodist Church, and the Bedok Stadium. I dare (and proudly) say that Kingfisher took one of, if not the longest route among all 8 patrols. I am not trying to put any Patrol down OK!! (It’s just to make Kingfisher feel better.)

The patrol members took turns to carry the 2 backpacks, which was a rather encouraging sign to see. Besides, the Sec2s also cared for the Sec1s. (And so did the Sec3… *blinks with overweening pride*). We brisk-walked from one checkpoint to another and tried to run as far as possible. However, we were also compassionate enough to wait for one another.

The walking went on and on and on and after almost an eon, the coolest Patrol ever (Kingfisher) finally reached the school gates! Then, we were left with the last atom of our strength (this is a hyperbole) and almost couldn’t feel our legs anymore. YAY!!!! We returned to loud cheers from the company. YAY!! (We sure deserved it, RIGHT? Just kidding!)

Even though Kingfisher was sadly the last patrol (and the slowest), due consideration should be spared for us since we took such a long route. Haha! (*Tries to gain more sympathy..*) Sooo, we deserve a standing ovation more than a mere pat on the back, ok!

All in all, I guess Kingfisher somewhat realised how and why we should not count our chickens before they’re hatched (since we even fell into a reverie that we would be the first patrol).

After Orienteering, we had another fun thing – Foot Drills!!! Foot Drills was kind of impromptu but nonetheless fun. The Sec3s were split into half with one half taking the Sec1s and the other half taking the Sec2s. Yay.

The story ends here.

Good bye!!

-Min Li

Fall In
Gadget tying
Orienteering
Drills
Fall Out

The activities on Friday's Girl Guides were interesting, first we had Gadget Tying, tying the 12'' poles onto the 72'' poles was quite okay as I've done it before but tying two poles together while blindfolded was something very new to me and i didn't manage to tie finish the two poles together. My friend however, managed to tie the two poles together and did it quite well. Seeing that, I felt quite embarrassed as if she could do it, why couldn't I? Thus, I feel that I need to practise Gadget Tying on my own and try to tie the standard Square Lash within the standard time.

After Gadget Tying, we did Orienteering and my patrol had the shortest route so we felt that we needed to come back to school the first since we travelled the least. My Sec 2's carried the backpack for the first half of the way, i took over one of the backpack's after that. The last part of the route, we had to climb up a hill to reach the school, just then we saw Sparrow reaching the school soon too and we ran back to the concourse, arriving first just as we felt we needed to. Orienteering is actually very fun as I got to know the location of a certain place, the name of somewhere I had passed by many times before and how to get to the Bedok Stadium from our school( I had never walked there before ). Besides that, it teaches me how to read maps and find my way if I ever get lost.

Lastly, we had Drills. The weather was not hot and the air was cooling so our seniors expected us to do our Drills well. I feel that we could've performed better if we just listened to the timer and locked our arms, so as to keep our balance, then we could turn, lift our legs to 90 degrees pointed down and bang at the same time. We just need to practise more, then I think we will perform quite well.

-Natasha

Hello XD

Today for Guide activity, we did 3 main things.

The first activity we did was gadget tying. We sec2s were told to go to 1 Perseverance classroom [I think X)] to fall in. There, we were given 2 minutes to tie a standard square lash. After that, we were given 30 seconds to untie the gadget. We repeated the above another time, when the ICs told us that we would try to tie a square lash BLINDFOLDED. I was a little surprised as I never thought that it would be possible to tie a square lash blindfolded. Haha:D we were given 3 minutes to tie the square lash. I was able to complete the tying in 2+mins, but I overlapped at some parts. Then, sec2s went to 1 Respect classroom [I think again XD]. There, we were told to join our patrols. In our patrols, we had to tie a shoe rack in 10 mins.

After gadgetying, we had neighbourhood orienteering in our patrols:DD we were given a map with another paper giving the grid references. In our patrols, we had to find out the places that we were supposed to go. However, my patrol screwed up and read the map wrongly and ended up having to identify our destinations again. Luckily, we did not take much time, and managed to find the correct places. We then proceeded out of the main school gate to our first station – Tanamera Crest. It only took us a while to walk from AHS to the condominium. After taking the photograph, we then moved on to our next destination, which was the playground at Pari Dedap Walk. As it was quite near to the condominium, we could reach the playground in around 10 minutes. Our next and last station before going back to the school was the Lions’ Home for the Elders. As I live quite near to the home, I was able to lead my patrol to our station without much difficulty :D Next, we proceeded back to school. As majority of the patrol was already quite tired, we brisk walked back to AHS. Along the way back we were deciding on whether to run back or to continue at a steady pace. We finally decided on running short distances, and walking after that for another short distance. After a tiring journey back to school, we finally reached. We had took a total of 1 hour for the whole orienteering, and came in 6th. We then had patrol interaction for a while.

Our third main activity was a short drill session. The sec3s were in charge of sec2s and we marched for a while. After that, we were dismissed. We then had an interaction session with Yijing Ma’am. As a batch, we talked with Yijing Ma’am about many different topics, from relationships with other CCAs to scandals. Haha XD We only ended at about 6.48PM and we were quite surprised that we had interacted for about an hour. :D

Overall, I really enjoyed today’s activity, especially the neighbourhood orienteering as well as the interaction session. However, I feel that I could have put in more effort during gadgetying as the ICs mentioned that my frapping could be tighter. I also feel that the neighbourhood orienteering helped me to put my orienteering skills to test, and I hope there will be another orienteering session some time again. :D I think that today’s activity was great! :D

-Rachel (Sec2)


Today’s Friday Activity could probably be summed up in a single word – FUN. (Haha!) Ok, it was probably not that fun when we had to walk under the hot afternoon sun, but still I think it was fun. That was fun-ny.

Now, to start the ball rolling, our first activity for today was Gadget Tying in 1SOMETHING. The first ‘part’ of the activity was no more than a humdrum routine of repeated Square-lash tying and pulling of twines.. HAHA! That certainly did help our juniors (not forgetting ourselves) improve on their (and our) Gadget Tying skills. Do you call them ‘skills’? Ok, I think so.

Then came the fun. We were turned into blind men (with the help of blindfolds and our eyelids, LOL) and were told to tie a Square lash in that manner. My square lash turned out to be not so much of a disaster as I’ve expected it to be. Also, many Sec1s and 3s did tie square lashes they are most proud of. The activity was not only creative, but was also super extremely ultra-engaging.

What we’ve learnt may also be put into good practical use in times of emergency, such as the setting up of an emergency shelter in pitch-blackness. (This is what the kind Jia-En told me.)

Later on, our Sec2 juniors joined us as a Patrol and we proceeded to tie a mini shoe rack suitable for huge shoes. Kingfisher’s shoe rack did not look VERY nice but I felt it was still quite presentable. (You must be thinking, ‘Of course you would say that’.)

After gadget tying, the company gathered in the concourse for a briefing on Orienteering. General rules and instructions such as the to-dos during an emergency were addressed. This helped get the company to be more ‘mentally-prepared’ – like knowing what to do should a Patrol member fall unconscious (just kidding). Maps were also handed out to individual patrols, and they quickly plotted the points as well as planned their routes.

Before long, all 8 patrols had already set out for their neighbourhood hike, with Sunflower, Flowerpecker, and Kingfisher leaving last. Although navigation was not a problem, the hike itself was rather tiring, but not extremely tiring (I think I’m undecided). (Yes, tell me you share my sentiments!!)

The 3 checkpoints Kingfisher went to were the Simpang Bedok Post Office, Bedok Methodist Church, and the Bedok Stadium. I dare (and proudly) say that Kingfisher took one of, if not the longest route among all 8 patrols. I am not trying to put any Patrol down OK!! (It’s just to make Kingfisher feel better.)

The patrol members took turns to carry the 2 backpacks, which was a rather encouraging sign to see. Besides, the Sec2s also cared for the Sec1s. (And so did the Sec3… *blinks with overweening pride*). We brisk-walked from one checkpoint to another and tried to run as far as possible. However, we were also compassionate enough to wait for one another.

The walking went on and on and on and after almost an eon, the coolest Patrol ever (Kingfisher) finally reached the school gates! Then, we were left with the last atom of our strength (this is a hyperbole) and almost couldn’t feel our legs anymore. YAY!!!! We returned to loud cheers from the company. YAY!! (We sure deserved it, RIGHT? Just kidding!)

Even though Kingfisher was sadly the last patrol (and the slowest), due consideration should be spared for us since we took such a long route. Haha! (*Tries to gain more sympathy..*) Sooo, we deserve a standing ovation more than a mere pat on the back, ok!

All in all, I guess Kingfisher somewhat realised how and why we should not count our chickens before they’re hatched (since we even fell into a reverie that we would be the first patrol).

After Orienteering, we had another fun thing – Foot Drills!!! Foot Drills was kind of impromptu but nonetheless fun. The Sec3s were split into half with one half taking the Sec1s and the other half taking the Sec2s. Yay.

The story ends here.

Good bye!!

-Min Li

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