Bravo group Day 4

We didn’t end up going on the water today as the wind was a bit on the strong side. We ate a breakfast of oatmeal and ham before heading down for a hike that went out of the park and eventually along the beach. When we stopped for a break along the edge of the lake, Billy gave us a lecture on the receding waters of Lake Ontario. We walked in a loop back to our campsite, where Kenny gave us an exercise of attention and concentration; asking us questions such as “how many cars passed us on the way there?” And “How many dead fish were there on the beach?”

After, we played some communication games with Kenny, like lining up facing a direction, and having to get to a destination with only one person moving at a time, with no verbal or overt physical cues. We then had a lunch of instant noodles and sausages. After lunch, we went to the ampitheatre for another lesson by Kenny. We did some group activities, then did some individual presentations up on the stage, introducing ourselves. From these introductions, we learned proper presentation skills, such as projecting our voices, and maintaining eye contact. We then moved on to a group drama exercise involving a strange baby named Jade, picked up at a riverbank by a remote (and apparently cannibalistic) village in Australia. We really got into role then, with a group of “monks,” and a more animalistic group calling for blood.

We had a dinner of rice, zucchini, ground beef, and tomato sauce. Hopefully, there will be smooth sailing tomorrow!

Peggy

I got bitten by mosquitoes! So sad… they really seem to know where to bite, to choose both my ankles… Anyway, so today we didn’t go on water. Instead we hiked. The first part was on paved path all the way to the beach, with the second part back from the beach through the beach. What I just wrote doesn’t seem to make much sense. Anyhow, the morale of the hike was that taking the easy path (life) can be long and boring whereas the hard path may have more rocks and obstacles but it is definintely more interesting. We spent the rest of the day with Kenny doing drama exercises. We learned the 3E in presentations: Entertainment, Enthusiasm, and ending. We then got into groups and and acted out skits. The imagination of everyone was so funny. And violent. I think my brain has shut down for the night… Oh yeah, Billy taught us how to make fire yesterday. Fun ~

Edwin Chan

Today is the third day of camp and all we did for today was drama and some hiking. When we woke up we were told to do pushups which was fun. after we were done with the pushups we ate breakfast which was oatmeals. When we wer done with the oatmeals breakfast we head out for a hike it took us an hour to get from our camp to the head office to the other side of the beach. When we were told our challenge was to walk back on the beach it took us half an hour to get back from the eastside of the beach. Once we got back to our camp we got tested on from the walk. After that we played some drama game to test our patience which didn’t seem to be much. When we were done with the patient game we had instant noodles for lunch. It was good since I haven’t eaten it in ages. A little while after we headed out to the theatre place and did some group work and some individual work. The group work was in a group of crazy people and they are fun to be with. We have been doing the drama lesson for around four hour which was for hour of entertainment.

Ryan

Today was a pretty bad day for me. A situation happened back at home and I was unable to do anything about it. This dampenered my day but it is fine hopefully. We started the day with a 2 hour hike. We then started doing the leadership training. We did two different training. We did two different training exercises one that is called fish – eye and one is unison. After we went to the amhetere and Kenny made us do an interesting drama.

Calvin

The hike this morning was shorter than I expected. I was at the front and the back of the line during the hike. The students seems to enjoyed it very much. The hike was interesting as it was along side the beacj part of the way. It gave them a chance to experience different terrain, as Billy had said. I agree as it made a lot of sense when he relates it to the difficulties of life. The afternoon plans had changed and, instead of doing activites, we did a drama class with Kenny. The drama class had given us rest, especially for me and Alastair. We had to be in the in the water the most yesterday. Hopefully it will not rain the next day and we could do more water activities.

Quince

Wow, days goes dast. Five more days till the end of the Monticle camp. I miss it. Today is the day where we said that we are maybe going on the water, but we didn’t. We hike around the beach and it takes two hours to walk back to the campsite. Then we have lunch. It is instant noodles, with brocli, with sausage. Then I play a little bit frisbee. Then we had drama class. This is the second drama class I have in Monticle. It takes like three hours to end the class and now we are writing our blogs. So there end of story.

Edwin Lo

At the morning we got a walking pt about two hours. It was very tired and we fins a difficult road to came back because it was faster. Before the lunch we played two games. The name is fish eyes. It help us to care for other people. It was difficulit too. After the lunch, I went to do the drama. It was very fun. at the drama afternoon, I learn a lot of things for it, like 3E. the 3E is learn for Dr. David (Kenny). It was very fun. at last, we do some parts of story. The story is said had some women go to wash the clothes and saw a body on the rover. And they call the body to jade….. I ma so tired to do five hours drama.

Alan

Today when we woke up, we ate our breakfast. After eating we went hiking for about 2 hours after hiking we played 2 games, the first game was on fish eye game. The second game was the teamwork game. After playing we ate lunch. When we finished lunch we went to the theater and did drama acts. It was along time we all act out the parts.

Alastair

No water activities today, because of the weather here… Anyways, we started off the day with a refreshing PT of pushups, and then moved onto a short hike. We walked from the paved road to the beach, and using the beach, we went back to the campsite. We then did some teamwork games, and moved on to the bulk of the day, drama class. For some of us, our more sadistic tendencies revealed itself…Anyways, it’s been a long day, and we need to rest for tomorrow, so good night and good bye!

Grace

今天，早上的时候，我们在走路，（走路？嗯。。。。。—.—）走的路分为两部分，第一部分，我们走的是路 。各种无聊啊。。。。。第二部分，我们走的不是路，是石头，开始各种不习惯，各种奇怪，后来各种欢乐啊。。。。

      一个早上过去了。。。。^-^

      下午我们在玩：“过家家”，各种欢乐 ，各种雷人，各种困。。。。。。。。。。。。。

     一个下午过去了。。。*-*

Ryan Sun                                                                                                                                              

今天没有昨天那么累，但也很丰富多彩。早上我们去远足，走了将近两个小时，有平地、有沙滩、也有石地，不同的路有不一样的感觉，很刺激。

从远足回来到晚上，Candy用各种方式给我们上课，如何演讲、如何与人交流等等，受益匪浅。

Cedric                                                                                                                                                  

第四天早上，我跟随大队伍进行了一次环湖远足，2小时行程。在去的路上正好是10

点多的上午，太阳在我们正上方导致气温和和地面温度都很高，但地势平坦，易行。当我们走了足足1小时到达湖边，我们毅然决定探索一条新路，即是向前推进，希望可以回到营地（环型湖），有趣的事发生了，地面异常难走，因为沙滩上遗留了以前被海水冲刷上岸的各种石头。经过三位导师的帮助，我上午总结：“事情总有两面性，可能这条路容易走，但环境会让你煎熬。另一条路推进，但这回更让人变得坚毅，强壮。我们需要做的，是去发现 。下午有更大的收获，一把它记在记事本上 。晚安。

                                                                                                                                                

Jacky                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                                             

This day we started out with a 2h hike. Leading my group of 3 was difficult because they bth walked at differet speeds. I felt like I did a good job because both of my team members did not give up. After the hike we did a team work game, it gave us a idea of how to be patient and how to look after for each other. We then went to the open theater and learn a lot about confidence, passion and enthusiasm when presenting something. I learn alot on how to make a god impression and team work, today. I hope the other days will be filled with knowledge.

Henry

Today was sunny, I did a lot of things and I was tired. At 10:00 am, we went hiking after the breakfast, it was very tired, about 2 hours. We have done. And then we went to open theatre to learn when we were presentation we should do. We also do the drama, the story is about one girl called “jade”. I got a lot of fun there. Today is a very important day.

Jason Wong

We had oateal, ham for breakfast. After break fast we went hiking outside Darlington provincial Park to a beach near the provincial park then walked though the beach ad back to the camp site it took two hours. Before lunch we played 3 diffrent games. The first game was a trivia, invidual walking to the line (patient training). The final was walking towards our goal. For lunch we had a instant noodle and sauges. After lunch we did some drama activities such as talking about ourselves and act out a story.

Jonathan

Today, on the third day, for our personal Fitness Training, we walked all across Darlington for three whole hours. It was very tiring. After lunch, we took a walk down to the amptheatre to do some drama. It excellent. Tomorrow, we are something interesting that I don’t know.

Edwin Cheung

Today is July, 24, 2012. This morning we when for a hours hike 10-12 am. I learn that “Walking the hard way will have a better view and faster to reach the goal.” Later we have a fish eye game. I learn, “you have to be indevite goal and we have to take care of other and reach your goal. this Afternoon, we have a 5 drama class talking the story of Jade story and the 3 “E”, Entinence, Enfercensome and Ending.

Jason Wang

Today we had a short-ish hike around the park then we played couple of games with Kenny and then we had couple of presentations and a drama skit/play. During the hike we learned that the hard way to a destination may in fact be quicker but will have more obstacles along the way compared to the easy way. After the hike we played coupe games under Kenny’s supervision where we learned to see our senses and that we need to help your team as well as ever losing sight of your target or goal. During the presentation we learned how a good speech must have a speaker with high enthusiasm, an entertaining speech and must have a good ending. After the skit/pay we learned that if you’re willing to change you can in fact change your personality.

Jennifer

I’m currently in the pitch blackness at the charging station with my brother and Alastair, being eaten alive by mosquitoes. Asian buffet.....  So forgive me for being brief; I am in some severe need of some after-bite, and perhaps a haz-mat suit.

What really interested me today was the part of the hiking that took us down to the shores of Lake Ontario. There were two ships out there, one of which we saw yesterday. The waters were pure, waves gently lapping against the sand of the beach. The water stretched all the way across the horizon, deep cerulean at the farthest reaches, transitioning to a sapphire ripple, and finally, a bottle green near the edges of the rocks. And this beautiful sight/site is being slowly destroyed. The algae are drying up on the beaches, and the cliffs loom, at times, more than 5 metres above us—where the water line should be. The place was littered with garbage as well. We, the people, need to do something about this.

The second thing that left a big impression on me today was the drama exercise with Kenny. I was in a group with Grace, Ryan, Cedric, and Peggy. We fought over the baby that we found at the river, then fought over who would take responsibility and feed the baby and change its diaper (we settled on Mommy Cedric). And just for your information, our group was the monk group; and we really got into role. We bestowed magic powers onto the baby “Jade” at her initiation ceremony.  I really got into role, and honestly felt sagely. That is all for today. Happy birthday, Mom! Goodnight.