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name: Wangchen lukuan
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school: Hwa Chong Institution BSP
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Higurashi no naku kono ni
Higurashi no naku kono ni kai
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ef~ a tale of memories
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Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun
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Home sweet home. I just returned from OBS Sabah camp today early morning around 3 a.m. Now I shall write about the camp. There are 3 expeditions in this 8 day camp, there are 4 groups (I am in group 4(11 people)). The 1st is the sea expedition, 2nd is the forest/land/home stay expedition and last the mountain expedition.
1st day. Reached OBS HQ at 9Pm slept
1. Sea expedition, 2nd & 3rd day
We need to navigate a sailboat to reach an island few km away from our port. We need to bring around 10 filled jerry cans (water bottles of 7 liter each) provided by OBS. We also needed to bring our food rations. (rice, oil, Soya sauce, chicken wings, vegetables, canned foods, 2 packets of wholesome bread, 1 bottle of jam, salt, packets of Milo and packets of cookies) These will last us for 1 dinner and 1 breakfast. Of cause, OBS also provided us with 3 cooking pots, some spoons and plastic containers. We left at around 2pm. There must be 8 people paddling at the start to move the sail boat. The paddle weights at least 5 KG!!!! Plus the water resistance, it is even more difficult to paddle! Our hands ached like hell! Finally, the lifeboat came to help us; it towed us into the sea away from the shore so that we can use our sails to move the boat. Unluckily the wind is blowing against us, so we cannot sail directly at the island instead we have to sail in a zigzag line. Most of us got seasick. I am one of them and I collapsed on the boat and slept, others went on singing to ease the seasickness. After drifting for 2 hours we are still far away from our island, once again, the motor boat came to help us, this time together with group 3's sailboat, it towed us all the way to the island. We are overjoyed to get down from the boat. We took out our bags from the boat and went ashore the island. The water there is really really clear you can see clearly 4m down and see the coral reefs. The island itself is very beautiful too; the sand is white and tiny. It is around 5 PM when we went ashore. We immediately started to start our own fire, with the help of a fire lighter, we started a fire using leaves, twigs and branches. We started to cook our rice first. During that time, we pitched our tents. After the rice is ready, we started to cook chicken wings in Soya sauce. The first try failed as the inner meat of the wings are still raw. The second time was a success, then we cooked our cabbage soup. We ate our "delicious" dinner. It was after 6Pm then and the skies had turned dark. Some went to sleep while I and 4 more people from our group volunteered to guard the fire for the whole night. I tell you keeping the fire going is a very difficult task, you need to continuously put in twigs, leaves and branches. You need to blow it often to relight the flame when the flame dies out. The night sky above the island is breath taking, as there is no light except our fire, the island is pitch dark. The sky is cloudless so we can see millions of bright shining stars and the moon. We chatted under the moon light. There is a lot of mosquitoes around so we sat around the flame so that the smoke will chase away the mosquitoes. Finally, our little fire was beyond repair we decided to move to group 3's campfire which is much bigger than ours. We slept near that fire. The next day morning we cooked Maggi noodles for breakfast and Milo as drinks. We left the island and set sail for OBS port. This time is even worse, there is no wind at all, we paddled for half an hour and finally the motor boat came to help us and towed the two sail boats to port. Finally, after two hours we reached the port, our arms were aching and head were spinning. This ends our sea expedition. (11 am)
2. Forest/land/home stay expedition 3rd, 4th and 5th day
Right after we came back from the sea expedition. We unpacked and cleared our bags, took a shower and went to eat lunch. Right after our lunch, once again we packed our bags for the forest expedition. Again, we have to carry more than 10 jerry cans filled with water. Those jerry cans weights at least 3kg each! In addition, we carried our food ration that is almost the same as the sea expedition's. First we left at 1Pm took the OBS bus to the foot of a mountain. From there we started to climb the 1.5 Km height mountain through the forest trails. It is sunny so the trails are dry and not slippery. However, it is very steep at times usually, we are ascending at around 60 degree. There are no steps so we really have to climb up the trail. We climbed for 2 hours before reaching our camp side at the top of the mountain. We started our fire and pitched our tents just like the sea expedition. We ate dinner at around 6Pm and I went into the tent to sleep early at 9 Pm as I only slept 2 hours during the sea expedition. All went quite well until around 1 am, it started to rain heavily. Our tent is not waterproof and thus we are all wet from head to toe. It rained and rained. Though the experience was unpleasant, we chatted as we get soaked in the tent. In the morning when we woke up, it is still drizzling. All the clothes that was hanging outside was wet and worse, during the thunder storm, we left our bags outside the tent so all the bags and the things inside were wet! We had no choice but to carry the wet bag and descend. I was wearing my jacket which was completely wet as it was very cold in the morning. The track back down the mountain was much more difficult but less tiring than the ascend. The trails were even more steep around 75 degrees and it is all muddy and slippery in the rain. At first, I tried not to get myself dirty by slowly tracking down the slippery and steep slopes. But, in the end I slipped and fell a few times and got myself quite dirty. Thus, I decided not to care anymore, I just sat on the muddy ground and slide down the slippery trails. My long pants were all wet and muddy. You can imagine how uncomfortable it was. After two hours of tracking, we reached our home stay family. It is a house in a Kampong. We cleaned ourselves and got in to prepare lunch. After lunch, we thought of our culture performance. After deciding our programme we prepared and ate dinner at around 7Pm. The sky had turned dark and we went to group 3's home stay house to present our performance. Our performance is just some singing.
After the performance, we went back to our home stay house. We slept peacefully. The next morning we left the house at around 7Am and walked back by the road to OBS. It is hot and we took 2 hours to walk back to OBS. We unpacked took a shower and slept for a while. At noon, we had lunch and again packed for our trip to Mt Kinabalu.
3. Mountain expedition 5th, 6th & 7th day
We left at around 2Pm together with group1,2&3. The car ride took 3 hours and we reached our dom around 1.2Km height up on the mountain. The temperature was around 16 degree Celsius. Once again, we cooked our own dinner and went to bed. The next morning we woke up around 5Am to prepare our breakfast. After breakfast, we left again to the starting point of our mountain climbing. After half an hour of bus ride, we reached the starting point of summit trail. The whole trail is 9Km reaching the summit which is around 4Km in height. There are two mountain guides for each group and our group set off last. Unlike the forest mountain earlier, there are steps for us to climb and it is not that muddy. We started to climb at around 9Am. We climbed for 6 hours until we reached our Dom on the mountain at 6.5Km mark. The temperature there dropped to around 8 degree Celsius!!!!!. That is cold. I haven experience that colderness for a few years! I wore 5 layers of clothing!!! We ate dinner at 6Pm and went to sleep at 7Pm!!!! After 6 hours of sleep, we woke up at 1 am to eat breakfast, at 2am we started to climb to the summit!
We climbed the mountain in pitch dark with help only from our touch lights. After an hour of climbing we reached 7km mark where there are no more steps or rocks for us to climb, there is only robes for us to climb up the flat wall. As it rained in the evening, the water level is at the ankle and the temperature further up is around 0 degree! Also, scince our group is so big and we are still teenagers, the guide decided to abandon the mission to climb to the submit. We were all very disappointed and slowly climbed down to our 6.5Km mark dom. The trip down took us another hour. So when we reached the Dom it was around 4am. We went to sleep until 8am to eat breakfast. At 9am we started our descend. The trip down was not tiring at all but dangerous as our weigh were on our knees. It took about 5 hours to finish the descend. There we waited for half an hour for our bus to come. We changed into our dry clothes and the bus drove us back to OBS HQ. We reached OBS around 5pm. Then we had free time.
Last day. 8th day
After one good night sleep, we woke up at 6am to do morning exercise only to realize how painful our legs were. I could not even squat down to tie my shoelaces! But we were all quite happy as it was our last day and we can finally go home soon. But before that we have two final challenges. First climbing the 14-foot wall (around 3 M) and the second task is making a raft and see who paddles the fastest. I myself had run out of clean clothes to wear anymore. I borrowed one t-shirt from MJ. For the climbing of the wall, we are supposed to climb the straight flat wall without any help except from our own team-mates. Luckily we were the last group to climb so we observed the ideas of other groups. In the end, we were second fastest among all 4 groups. As for the rafting contest, we were second again.
I will be uploading the certificates of my OBS camp and My Kinabalu camp soon. Also I might include some photographs too.
posted @ 3/12/2006 01:01:00 PM
