Councilor-in-training Selection Camp (CIT) in HCI

During the March holidays, I was one of the few Secondary Ones and Twos who went for the CIT Camp. Max had also gone to the camp. He encourage me to go and was so enthusiastic, in the end I decided to accompany him and attend the camp. I did not expect it to be very fun, but I enjoyed the camp very much and the activities were interesting and entertaining. The only two events that I disliked were the bumping session and the night trail. The bumping session was right after dinner and we weren't prepared for it at all as the seniors were still chatting happily during dinner. It has delayed the activities by almost an hour. Despite that, the seniors knew the importance of instilling discipline into us. I feel that discipline is the most important value that a person should have in order to succeed in life. After that, we went on a night trail. it was my first time at night in school alone. I was a little scared at first, but seniors told me not to think of the scary things that might happen to me, but instead try to think of girls,(because we do not have girls in my school). When I was on the trail, I tried to kept thinking about happy things that would occupy my thoughts during the trail. It lasted about 15 minutes and it was over in a blink. As we could only go one by one, it was 11 p.m. when it finished. By the time we got to bed, it was already 1 a.m. The next morning, we had breakfast and team-building games. We played caterpillar, and another game which required us to move water from one pail to another. It required teamwork and cooperation from everyone in the team. it was fun and entertaining. My team was the second team and for winning, the councilors poured the water onto us. Although my team members were not really happy for getting wet, but we still enjoyed it as it makes us go through thick and thin united as a team. It was time for lunch. After lunch, we prepared a skit for the campfire. As nobody could come up with a good idea, we came up with something crappy and was meant to make the audience laugh, but it turned out to be an epic failure. The campfire was also a pep talk from the seniors and to tell us how tough a councillor's life would be. Even though my group was the worse, we were encouraged by seniors and we felt consoled. It was the last activity of the camp and we did cheers for each others and wrote good comments for each other. The next morning, we packed up and left after bidding each other goodbye. It was the best camp which taught me many values. Even if I don't get in Council, I feel that it was still worth my three days of my precious march holidays.