Year 7
Bonding Day (Year 7)
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Wednesday 9th October 2013.
This was the day. The day we went for bonding day-a 2 day trip to the Nature Lodge, Penang Hill.
When we arrived (at the train station), we got separated into our groups and had to think of a name and team cheer for our group. The names Y7 had used were … Fruitilicous, The Unknown 12, Dragonite, Dragon Clan, Penang Hill Dragons and last but not least Blue Fire .
Although it was a really bad squash in the train, it only got worse when we arrived up there. We had to walk 1.5km all the way to the Nature Lodge (I found it was easier to walk when we were laughing). Once we got there, we got a talk about the Nature Lodge. The Nature Lodge is a heritage building made by the British when they arrived in Penang to escape the heat.
After that we had lunch and a treasure hunt. For the treasure hunt, we had to use a map and a compass to find cards with a letter and a number on it .The number was for telling you which letter it was eg. 1=Q 2=P etc. The letter was for making a word –you had to find all letters then unscramble them to form a word.
We then painted flags for our team then played activities.
One of the activities we had was Water Balloons with Miss Alyssa where we made giant water balloons then split into groups to throw at each other and the team that caught the most water balloons won.
Another activity was rocket launching with Miss Anis – where we used water pressure and air pressure to launch the rocket.
Next, there were fun games with Miss Aimee; we did balloon races by putting balloons under our legs, running to a point, running back then passing it to our team mate then repeat until everyone has finished. Also with Miss Aimee, we played the fox(es), mother chicken and the chicks and balloon tower building; making our tower the sturdiest structure.
We also had dodge ball with Miss Nicole where there were 2 throwers at each end of the field and the people between had to dodge the balls as the throwers threw the balls. Sometimes they threw the ball so hard it fell off the cliff!
We had Miss Carolyn too with her hoop games and team writing. For the team writing we split into 2 groups and each group got a pen with five strings attached to it – we each got a string and tried to write our team name on the board (mine being ‘Blue Fire’). It was tricky but we managed to succeed (sort of –all the writing was wobbly).
After that we had spaghetti tower building with Miss Christine. Most of the groups got to do that; unfortunately our group didn’t get to do that but we mixed groups and played TRUTH OR DARE! Not all groups got to do everything in one day but it was a FUN day.
Soon, we set up our tents and had a delicious dinner that consisted of sweet and sour chicken with rice OR if you were vegetarian we had garlic spaghetti. We got to have a bon fire, that Xander’s dad kindly put up for us, and enjoyed ghost stories or singing.
After a fun day (and a bit of chit chat before sleeping) we finally settled down and got to sleep in our tents or dormitories with our friends excited for another day of FUN.
On Thursday we continued with our activities and had a quick lunch of (three choices) jam, egg or tuna sandwiches. We carried all the equipment up the hill and began our 1.5km back to the train station where we all got squashed again and went back to the bottom of the hill.
We came back on the bus and either went home or continued with our activities.
That had been a fun trip and we look forward to more!
Written by Tan Zhi Ni (7T)
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