#433; they will carry you through the hurt
Sunday, August 1, 2010
RAFFLES GUIDES
ANNUAL ASSEMBLY 2010
CANDY CRIMES
Wow.
We were barely into the entire AA preparation, but it's already over. I think this year's was pretty rushed, so everything just zipped by, but the end product = way surpassing what we put in :)
BEFOREStructureeee! With a lot of B11ATCH = spending forever looking for poles (some too long some too short but none of them were right raise your left!) and hauling them to the koi pond then using tiles as markers and shoes as supporters and pulling like crazy (but fearing rope burn) and very frantic near-collapse tripod erecting and moving around x1000 and bricklaying and aluminium foil sticking and basically a lot of sweat stress and yet I love love love doing structure because while it pisses you off when it screws up the end product is seriously worth it :D
Changing! Haha omg won't go into details ;D A lot of "CLOSE THE DOOR" and icky jeans wearing because sweat + jeans ≠ good combo. Unsweated ourselves as much as possible with a shitload of deo spraying and "spray and we walk!" and we walk very determinedly to and fro.
Dinner! With Hanin and Rae-Ann with already aching feet and gulping chrysanthemum tea like there's no tomorrow and ditching half of our meal and carving our initials and "do not touch" with 1. I have nametag! 2. I have stylus!! 3. I have sharp fingernails!!!
Phototaking! WOW. Okay. A lot of yelling "DO NOT TOUCH THE STRUCTURE, IT CAN FALL" because two schools made it sway very dangerously and then AC decided to be an asshole and somehow knocked it down and the entire thing just... floated in midair as it fell down very movie slow-motioned-like and people screamed and we all tried to push it back up as the scouts attempted to help us and then left with a "you can come back later!". Improvised on the structure i.e. get rid of half of it and spent the remaining pre-campfire time untying knots and carrying poles and using my legs as supporting things and basically Sweating A Lot, but at least steady structure!!
Campfireeee! Hahaha I loved the performance it was very very very good for something I didn't think was rehearsed that much!! Very lame omg, and all the song slipins were Very Pro :D Sec ones were super cute hahaha, and ragini looked very superstar! Sec fours' skirts were super pretty and dance was also - omg they learn fasttt. Dressup time was run to watercooler time (where Rae met Someone) andddd...
Post-Campfire! Wow this was fun. Ran around like mad looking for people and giving out cards and collecting presents and dropping presents; took last minute photos + awkwardly took a picture with SJI scouts who kept offering to take down our structure because we were being polite (and rae-ann was being insanely blur hahahah); dismantled the structure (which was surprisingly smooth); had to carry a whole load of stacks of cars back up to E101 ("eh ask the guys to help la, they keep offering anyway" "no la, this is our AA, we should carry, unless they offer" "okay then we'll make a lot of noise and they'll come up and help") and then we burst into antagonized moans and sighs and groans and they came :D :D
Sitting with the rest of Guides in the canteen as we listened to the CLs talk and cheered and collected our M&Ms because we were all different colours in one lovely packet, it hit me that this really was the end. No one told us that this would be the last time we experienced Guides with the sec fours until Striping, and it was.. wow. We've been through the most number of years with them, and now they're gone.
You know sometimes I think we do everything we do and dream everything we dream because a part of us, who knows how prevalent, doesn't want to disappoint those who helped pave our way.
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