experience taught me

sept 12-14 were the days of agony..
agony which led to lessons..
lessons of what does life exactly mean..

during those days..i felt so disciplined.. i was very aware of time.. of everything we do, actually..

we had our GSP camping.. indeed, it was fun.. it was amazing.. but it was tiresome! super.. the moment i knew it was the last day, i wanted to run away and sleep.. i was impatiently waiting for that day to come..
speaking of sleep, i haven't had enough sleep during the camping.. i couldn't.. first, inside our tent, it was so crowded that i couldn't move well. so hard, imagine..we were 4 in a tent.. and plus our baggage? it was not spacious.. and during daytime.. very hot! who could sleep with a burning tent? nighttime is inversely proportional to daytime.. cold versus hot.. very opposite..

i can't really remember the sequence of the events of our camping but i'll just give the highlights..
uhm, we had a game.. actually, i shouldn't have joined there if i knew something harder was coming..
we jumped..we crawled..we ran..we duck-walked..haha..etc.. we got naked..(i wasn't..i just took off my shoes, and accesories..) i thought we wouldn't win..we were such losers.. but, one time..when we did the duck walk..we thought we were left behind.. the trainor whispered to us saying we were the first placer,( i got stunned).. not because we were fast but because we were following instructions.. wow! salute..! hehe

2nd day's night was so terrible.. i was on my socks and i changed clothes.. i was supposed to go to sleep already when we heard Sir Sapues's whistle.. we ran and ran to the highest speed..we formed a line.. we were told to get our neckerchief.. i realized i was on my slippers, so i ran back to our tent to get my rubber shoes..at that time, i knew we would be doing a hard task.. but, i got punished when i went back to the line formation.. they said, i got no complete items.. i did pumping..waa..! we were many..it was better than squat, u know..
i got shaking and tired knees because of that sucking game.. pumping was really better..BETTER than sitting in the air..

guess what we did.. comando crawl..it was so hard.. my elbows were hurting so bad..because of those stones..i got so many wounds.. i wanted to give up but i had to pursue it for our patrol..oh, i forgot to tell you..our patrol's name is sabertooth! hehe..

3rd day was a relief..
last day..
we had our campfire and etc...
we danced, we sung, we acted.. we weren't expecting to be the first contestant..and we were caught unprepared..sucks! aliely was funny there...haha..
oh wait.. my patrolmates are..
Anjelica Madria..
Aliely May Alvaira..
Karen Joy Jardenil..
Christine Jessa Javier..
Lojeen Monib..
Jamie Villamor..
Nourah Angela Mesa..
Fatima Lorica..
i hope i can have their pictures posted here.. but then, unfortunately, i have no pictures of theirs..sigh..

by the time i got home.. i slept then..

oh damn.. we waited for how many fridays just to hear the awarding..
i wondered how many awards would we get.. i wasn't expecting any but they said we were the champion, that was why i wanted to know already.. because they were bugging and congratulating us and we had no idea what the hell were they talkin' bout..or how did they get that idea leading them to conclude or, assume rather that we were the champion.. as far as i could remember, we were not that active..uhm.


then...the day came..November 7, 2008.. Scouting time..
oh, surely..i was excited for the awarding yet i didn't know why was i feeling several butterflies in my stomach.. we got awards.. First call,..2nd call..and etc.. we got ribbons of different colors.. green=10 pts., yellow=15 pts., and i was wondering how we got it; red=20 pts or the first placers.. my mouth was hanging open when I knew we got 2nd place in the comando crawl category.. "hUh?" flooded in our patrol.. like, "atik? tama akung pagkadungog?" yes.. i was even in a confusion of if what i heard was right or wrong..or maybe, what i heard was just a hallucination or whatever you call it.. but, everything i heard was what Sir has said..and at the end of the day, we were awarded or *ribboned(hAha..I invented my own word..) as the C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N!! whoaaaa..
i couldn't believe it.. i was supposed to collapse..joke rah..exaggeration pud..


i remember, when we did the Comando crawl, i felt that "is this the end of the world?". it was hard.. it was pretty hard.. we were crawling on a rocky road.. painful for my elbows.. i was thinking when would it stop.. or, when would the trainors stop that agony..it pained me everytime i would try to move a distance forward, knowing that there was somebody pulling me backward and there were stones which were starting to dig and wound my elbows.. my elbows were the most hurt, really.. we needed to hold on each other's feet so we wouldn't be lost from each other's company.. it was hard trying to balance everything.. i just endured every pain, every wound, every bruise.. just to stand on my word to never ever give up.. another hard part there was when the time, we were showered or watered rather.. eew.. we looked like, plants.. and.. basang sisiw... I startled coz of the temperature.. of the coldness.. it was cold.. as cold as ice.. we were freezing.. all of us.. imagine, that was i think..1 or 2am.. wow.. i can't even take a bath at 4am..how bout that.. harsh.. when we were done with that violent part.. i swear..our underwears were such a heck of mud.. gosh..

well.. it was nice having such experience.. of how do campers camp? haha.. redundant.. and i learned how to make fire.. cook fast.. budget water.. budget food.. i also did appreciate the value of water.. yes.. really.. and i learned to never ever join a camping again..