Wednesday, 29 July 2009

CDAC's Family Bonding Camp at Bishan Park

Last Sat, Dorothy and I participated as volunteers in CDAC's Family Bonding Camp. It was a hot and sunny day...the high temperature was just so unbearable. Most of the game stations were in the shelter, except for mine *sigh*. The blue shirts for the volunteers were a bit big...we only got our shirts when we registered our attendance. Anyway, no complaint since it's free and kind Ling has already helped me to change my shirt to one size smaller.

My "Act of Service" game team (incomplete as some of the guys weren't in the photo...). A bunch of very on-the-ball people who survived the hot sun! I was glad that I brought along my cap or I would have had a worse headache after the few-hours-long game.

Our game station where there were lots of sand. Our team leader informed us that the park management has instructed us to "take good care" of the sand, which they have specially bought for the volleyball court. Our game "Act of Service" works this way - One of the parent gets blindfolded and the remaining family members have to lead the blindfolded parent through 3 points - A, B and C and guess the name of the food written on the paper at each point. 50% of the points is derived from the completion time, while another 50% comes from the level of cooperation between the family members in term of giving out hints. The parents were very cooperative and didn't complain when we asked for them to be blindfolded under the hot sun.

The camp fire was a bit disappointing...the camp fire songs were supposed to be sang by the camp participants, but the speaker volume was so loud that we could only hear the emcees' singing (like a concert). The atmosphere would be so much better without the microphones during the singing, as I'm sure the volunteers would be singing together loudly to make it feel more like camp fire songs. However, I think many of us enjoyed the cute dances as many of the volunteers even went up on stage to demonstrate the steps. I didn't dare to go up as I weren't familiar with the steps, but I happily danced away with my team mate at the back of the audience. Some of the families saw us and tried to dance along...we created 'courage' for them. Haa.

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