3.02 Outbound sup!?

Outbound activities day! Today morning we met at 715am to get out of school to one of their area in under WUST. To my surprise, I didn't know that they have such facilities which is just beside their school! The area we walked in displays a series of challenging obstacles or maybe I call it a playground. It consists of a Man-made rock climbing activity, balancing on a long stretch of bar, climb-over-wall, etc. In Singapore, in order to enjoy these facilities, I think we've to head down to another area at some other parts of Singapore. One area I think I went before is the Singapore Scout Association Sarimbun Camp Campsite, during one of the camps in secondary school.

Other than us joining in the activities, there are other group of local students under a different trainer to bring them around. I think they are the grade 1 students where it is compulsory for them to go through uniform group training. The scenario of the entire event was some sort of a camp + icebreaking activity. There's some military commands as well: at first they shouted using chinese and most of us was stunned as we don't understand what's it about. But after awhile, we got the hang of the words used.

We then get splitted into groups, gathered a cheer & song, accompanied with a team name "武科星", and played alot of the ice breaking games. Until afternoon, we only managed to finish rock climbing.

our flag "武科星"/the challenging rock


We're only supposed to climb the center one. But unexpectedly, I didn't manage to complete it! There are 2 ropes down for two to climb up simultaneously and I did the one more to the left one in the center partition. At last, only one of them managed to get to the top: 冠滨 Guan Bin the champion. Anyway, it was fun and challenging though.

After lunch, while on our way back to our dorm to take a rest from the humid and annoying weather that makes one go crazy, sk noticed an area near our dorm. provides driving training/test for local student I think.

some beams guiding the car to park


During the break from 1130 to 230, we rested and get ready for the next few rounds of outbound activities. Today is certainly a tired day but for me, it is a fulfilling day as well. Here are the highlights:

1) Blindfolded-walk
- We're blind folded and travel around the area.
Lessons from the activity:
To our surprise, I thought it's some another blind folded game I played in camps, but it's entirely different. I thought we're going to travel along flat terrain with some huddles only, but in fact, we had climb up and down from a series of the playground unbalanced planks, high heights of the ground level into a small building and out of it. One word to describe these, challenging! For that, we really learnt something when we've to trust each other, especially the people infront of me and being confident is also very important as it gives an assurance to the people behind you and not causing them to feel uncertain, and cause the entire troupe to slow down and broke up.

2) bridge making communication
- We're splitted into 2 different groups and further broken down into smaller sub groups of 2.
- Then materials are given to 2 different main groups with 2 sub groups each.
- Objective is to build a bridge which able to withstand a weight of a 500ml mineral bottle.
- 40 mins to build it, tactics on own team decision.
- 2 time of 3mins discussion between the subgroups are given during intervals.
- End of the entire 40mins, both subgroups meet and combind what they have
Lessons from the activity:
I've learnt that communication is very important especially when the communication duration is very limited. Communication plays a crucial role in all sorts of situation. Each moment lost means alot to the other party as it might cause a life as well if we take it to serious terms.

3) conquer your height
- Climb up to about 1 & half story high and leap from one end to another about 150 cm away.
Lessons from the activity:
This activity is one of the unique and never-try-before experience I had! Also, it's one where I felt that it gave me a breakthrough personally, in terms stretching my guts and courage.

I feel that WUSTZNB is a very good school. Not only they provide a typical studying environment for every student, but also values impartation of what I've gone through today. I believed that every students in their grade 1, whom had went through these outbound activities, certainly would reap loads of good values and principles of life. Not only they come to school to study and make friends but they could bring back home something else if one puts heart at work during the activities. Furthermore, I believe by working together as a team, they are able to meet some good friends and, thus forming a strong bond of friendships with the never-forgetting experiences during the event.

Reflections of the day:
In the afternoon, while we're in a resturant having our lunch, my friends and myself witness an eating habit of the Chinese in Wuhan. They spit on the floor (inside the resturant) while eating. To some of my friends and even myself, we felt so awkward as it is very unhygienic. At first, I knew that China has this habit of spitting but I didn't know that they do it indoors, even in the resturant eating halfway! Somehow, we got very "urk" by that action with the sound of "gurping" of their phlegm.