Last week was kind of an unfruitful week for me since mon and tue were trail lectures and the following 3 other weekdays were dedicated to the jj camp.

The teaching pace is slow thus it makes it so much more important for me to motivate myself to study. This shall start from next week. Besides dance and academics, I shall not commit into other stuff like being and OGL or in a class committee. Though these stuff make my testimonial look impressive after 2 years of accumulation, I could have used the time to study.

The camp was fine though. Nothing that really inspired me after attending it. One reason is that I'm immune to camps. I practically attended up to 3 camps annually for 4 years in Nan Hua. Furthermore, each camp can go up to 3 to 5 days. Therefore, another camp (one that is so slack with no physical training or footdrills) that is meant to be fun makes everything smooth sailing for me.

The only significant thing about jj's camp is their water games divided into 3 segments: one on Day1 and two on Day2 which are carried out at different timings of the day.

One thing I cant stand is the 'preaching' of self-motivation and character development. The camp should be geared solely towards bonding the campers to enable them to adapt to the new environment where there are new people and the unfarmiliar school compound.

However, in the end of the day, when I received the feedback form, what I see in the paper was:
- Did the camp change you as a person?
- Will you put others before yourself?
- Will you return back as an OGL next time?

I was expecting questions like:
- Did you like the food?
- Were the games fun? If not, suggest improvements to the games?
- Was the duration of the camp long or short?

So I shall conclude that this camp is not aimed at the students to learn more about their peers and surroundings. Instead, it is towards character development.

Nevertheless, I just dont get the cost of the orientation camp. It's 70 bucks, so expensive. I got a miserable black file, notebook and a lime green orientation shirt. As compared to my previous orientation in the other school, that only cost 23 bucks with a range of 'goodies' I get (read my past post of the items reveived), it's a world of difference.

Despite so, this camp allowed me to make new friends and even ones that I'm pretty close to already. Thus, I wont be so lonely when I'm in school.

JJ stuff aside.

YUP!!! Yesterday Dawn, Keith, Shi Han, Jun Long, Lei Hoi and I went to xen. I felt as though it was millions of years that I've been there. All of us except Junlong and Leihoi were there around 12 plus and I taught my chereography to the timbaland music. After that, we ventured into raggae and the lyrical hip-hop.

Only about 2pm did Leihoi and Junlong join us. I taught salsa. I was pretty hard though cause everyone was making noise and it's hard to speak above the noice. The outcome was partial success. I taught the basic steps or solo and pair but I didnt get to complete the simple turn and cross body leap turn (the important ones). Can't be help since it's their first and most likely the last lesson so it makes it harder to grasp the fundementals.

Taught hip-hop at 5pm. Surprisingly, there was a guy in our class. I taught the timbaland chereo. By then, I was feeling a little emo cause everyone left except dawn and the class was quiet. Now I understand how trevel,my tues dance class teacher, felt when he asked a question and no one replies. ha.

The mood lifted slightly when Dawn and I experimented with the CODA thingy and using a faster pace music, HIT THE FLOOR. haha...it was fun.

With that...

Wee...

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