Bravo Group - Day 11

Aug 22, 2013 – Day 11

We had our usual morning PT stretches and walk towards the local LCBO when suddenly it rained. Quite heavily too. The walk was cut short and we ran back to our cabins. The weather forecast said it would rain until the afternoon and so contingency plans were thought up. Ideas were thrown around, maps were checked. The rain then started to slow down. By breakfast, the rain stopped and it was only extremely cloudy. In the end we decided to still have water activities but with a twist. We split into two groups for a competition game. The water and route was tested and practiced with the canoe and kayaks. The purpose of the games is to practice our overall teamwork skills and communication. We needed a lot of work. Ultimately we improved a lot, having a lot of fun along the way. The weather forecast was wrong, as the sun started blaring down on us a few hours after the cloudy sky. We ended the day wet and exhausted. Much laughter can be heard during dinner and many lessons were taught. Tomorrow will be the last day of water activities. It will be harder. It will be exhausting. It will be fun.

Kelvin

                Today was very cold and fun. Max was explaining about polar bears. Today was brilliantly awesome.

Calvin Su

                It was a fall day in a wet suit. Also my wetsuit was stretched out because someone accidently put it on. Most of my time was spent on the water watching over the students. Most had never paddled before and our original plan was changed to just paddling and kayaking lessons. Tomorrows going to be another water day as well. I feel tired of all this. Spending time away from family may seem easy, but I really started to feel homesick yesterday.

Jennifer Wang

                My voice is dead again. It went to a good cause though: cheering my team on. I’m not sure how to explain today’s team-building activity, but it was water, canoe, kayak, people and loud. Basically it was a relay race that required lots of thinking as well as physical skill. There was a rope connecting the kayak to the canoe that we could choose to use it or not. I thought it was a pretty smart idea of mine to use the rope to help the two boats turn by pulling on it and then having the occupants on the canoe turn around, if I do say so myself. It really showed off quite a few seconds. Allowing us to win by just a few metres! It was a close race-good job both teams! Oh yes! It rained heavily this morning; enough to curtail our morning. PT unexpectedly we ran back to the shelter of our cabins to stay dry until breakfast. It was sunny for the rest of the day so no worries! :)

Rex Lee

                Today was a day full of adventure. Like everyday we woke up early and do physical exercial, today we went for a long walk. However the weather turned from bad to worse, it started to rain so we had to run back to camp under heavy rain.

                Because of the rain some of the activity had to be cancelled this morning. The weather turn good. Then Billy talk us kayaking, he taught me how to row a boat and how to kayak. Then we paddled around the lake after that we use our hands to paddle the boat.

                All in all today I learn teamwork is very important, one person can only do little. However team of people of people can do a lot of things.

Edwin Cheung

                Today is day to of watersport. We start our day with rain on the morning. We then have a lot teamwork in the water. it was fun. I have thought the way. Mom miss you <3 p="">

Ava

Extremely tired! But I will try my best to face the hard time of tomorrow challenges! I wish I can stay strong.

Alex

                Today we have a kayaking the lesson, it was fun, but so tired.  Tmr we will sum for more then 2km. after today done, I hope I can handle it.

Terry

                Today we are going to canoe. It’s really fun. Although we lost the competition our team still try so hard to win, our team push the boat so hard and it goes so fast is so hard to turn, after we finished the boat, we go swimming. Again, Beep-. I go swimming alone, with the frog style. It is still okay at first, but it’s not going well afterwards. Maybe we should swim stronger the next day.

Maggie Pan

Today was a wet day (literally). We started off the morning with a competition where each team had a boat, and you could only use your arms to paddle the boat. We did another competition, but this time it was with the leaderships as well. After that, we had man over board drills, then we all changed and showered. I’m kind of scared tomorrow because tomorrow it going to be very challenging. Our team of 8 has to swim together back to some location (not clear where) and Billy said it’s gonna be about 1km! today was tiring and wet but, I learned more about teamwork and to cheer people on, the most surprising thing today was that today is day 11! OMG! 3 more days! OMG! I’m gonna miss everyone and everything

Edwin Chan

Today is our second day of the water sport. We the fever group finally go in the water. the whole entire day we were in the water playing with the kayaks. My role for today was safety and patrol, from that I’ve also learned many other things while patrolling and driving the safety, such as watching then capsize, paddle, and swimming. Even though a lot more things has happen and I could probably write them down, but my brain kind of fried when I died laughing during dinner. So have fun now.

Nicola Huang

Today was a fun day. We were doing water activities on the lake in groups we had to transport every teammates on one pelican and one canoe. No paddles were included and there was a certain amount of people we could transport at once. This allowed us to practice our collaboration by synrcinizing our paddling actions and voicing out to turn our boats. Tonight dinner was SUPER TASTY! YUMMY! :p Mom. Dad, Yaura, and Dorris eat well and dress warm., I’m ready for tomorrow’s challenge.

Jason Wang

                Today was very entertaining. We woke up at 0630 and had PT at 0730. For PT we started off with some stretches then went for a quick run. But the run was cut short due to the rain, which started mild way, following PT and waiting for the rain to die down we had kayaking, canoeing and paddling lessons as well as swimming and other water activities/lessons. I was mainly on an open top kayak as safety in case anything occurred in the water, but Chris decided to pull into the water as a joke. That was actually very funny but he should consider safety of others before doing anything like that as I almost hit Terry’s head with the paddle as I fell. Tomorrow will also be filled with water activities, this will be fun.

Ryan Hoang

                Today was a wet and exhilarating day. It was filled with many water filled adventures even when we were doing PT as well. This is because during the PT midway it started to rain and this caused us to have to go back into our rooms and dry off. After that we discussed what we were going to do for the day but soon it stopped raining so we can resume with our regular scheduled programming which was kayaking. When the kayaking begun we soon realized that many of the students did not know what they were doing so we switched to something that was easier which is we paddled around the dock with only our hands.

Max

Today is day 11, we ate chicken brest, corn soup noodle for breakfast. I slept good yesterday, have sweet dream: today we did PT test in the morning when we were having a walk it suddenly rain! My clothes is soaking wet, my body was totally wet!!! I feel like I just came out from the pool. Billy told us to practice kayaking. After lunch, we have two canoe race, who bring all the team peoples to the next side of the shore more faster wins. We loose the first time and win the second time I learned you balance well and communicate good, then you can win the race. We jumped of the board and pull back each other to the shore. I miss my mom, but I can see her soon. Now the sky is very beautiful for the sunset, it was shining pink, green and yellow! I like this challenge! Tomorrow it will be more difficult, that I probably will die. See tomorrow’s blog.

Lemuel

Our morning was quite wet. And by that I mean that it was rainy. At the same time, we went outside for our usual PT. So by the time we got back, we were basically drenched. This did, however, prepare us for the remainder of the day as we went into the water. We first had a competition on paddling the canoe and carrying the canoe back from a different dock. However, that didn’t quite work out since they were unable to properly move around on the canoe. So went spent some time getting the students use to paddling on the kayaks and rowboats. We did end up doing the competition but we did it without using the paddles and without walking from one dock to another. Tomorrow, we should be doing actual kayaking and we’re planning to “kill” the students in man overboard training. Good luck, guys! (you’re gonna need it)

Christopher

今日學撐船，來到呢度有好多野都係第一次做，但系全部都好2上手。

呢十幾日學識四樣野。

1、安排好嘅事吾洗去恐懼，因為終將來臨，亦終將過去。

2、心態可以令想像中痛苦嘅事變得快樂，並且回味。

3、幾值得回味嘅事，過去就已成過去，翻吾到轉頭。

4、做一個領袖，需要充分信任別人，凡事親力親為，鐵人也會倒下。

琴日有好多野想同容小姐講，但系冇寫postcard，因為個腦度累計太多野，想安靜地想想問題，MAX教識我：一切都係“北極熊”，換一個低B嘅角度捻，一切都不再是問題。

仲有三日就暫時離開MONTICLE了，好滿足！好似部X滿點嘅電話。

容小姐見吾見到我呢兩日落水嘅英姿？WAS4U！vrn<3 span="">

Alvin

 今天我miss了整個中午，因為我要做student visa，但我一回到muskey landing沒有換wet suit 便跳下了水雖然全身濕晒，但我也覺得很開心，之後便開始了自己起Camp Fire。

  今天學會了很多東西。

Tom

  今天下雨了，在7:40分的时候，我们正在马路上，进行步行训练，但在开始不久后，便下起了大雨，所以我们便会了moskeys landing，本以为今天要留在屋内，但很快便停雨了！下午做了个团体活动，知道自由在很多细节上还需加强！明天有跟多的考验，加油！Fighting！！

Bing Jun

  今天，我们去了划船，有点累。刚刚去打了扑克，不好意思，我们学到了领导者的重要性，然后还要团结才能战胜困难。

Xuan zi chen

  今日我们一早出去散步，结果突然我们走到一半雨突然下大了，我们加快了脚步避免淋湿，我们越走越快雨越下越大，跑回来的时候雨大得连眼睛都睁不开了~当我们回到度假村我已成了落汤鸡了！下午的时候我们比赛了三个回合的独木舟考的是团队的精神。我们还跳了几次水~明天我们将7个人组成一队游泳，哈~~~

Shirley

  我真的真的想说“我恨水上运动”而且是非常非常的恨！！真恨！！本来以为昨天那一次去湖里游泳后就完事了，结果发现，我们一共要去三天！！今天教我们划的独木舟，看上去虽然是挺容易的，到那时坐上去划的时候就没那么简单。第一次玩两人舟时还挺顺利，后来不知道为什么，又上了一次船，这次是一条大船，结果总是撞上石头，最后没办法，只好游回来。

  几轮比赛后以为结束了，没想到我们一次又一次往水里倒，然后倒着游回来，每次下水都会呛到，然后完全游不起来，当其他人都第二轮的时候，我还在中间脚都去不了！我觉我真是笨透了，连游泳都不会。

Maggie Tin

-今天玩撑船和遇难跳水

-还是坐快艇好玩。                                                                                                                         

-不想洗衫。

-每日都挺新奇。

-OK.

Ryan liang

 今天是来到Monticle的第十一天。今早PT Test又和昨天一样都是走路走到LCBO，不过今早刚开始就下雨了，于是便全身湿透跑回了住的地方，而且还打雷了。今天活动都在住的地方附近进行，就是玩船、跳水、游泳之类的，不过还是很累，很痛，明天要八人一起游2km，听说会累到哭，所以明天加油！

Moon

好像承接了昨日夕阳的状态，或许是因为是同一个地方，又是同一个太阳，今天的日头又是朦胧的，好像太阳边上起了雾。不过，这朦胧的天，朦胧的地，朦胧的日，朦胧的云还有朦胧的水，给人一种别样的感觉，一切都在迷雾中，惟有摸索、探求，才能不断前进，得知幕后真相，这，不就是我们来Monticle的目的吗？

说到朦胧的云和水，我早上起来，真真切切看到了万里无天，看来今天天气多云，只不过多的是阴云。而太阳升起后已经不知所踪。而正好在早上我们晨练时，下起了雨。我来这个国家后卫已度过的雨天是在森林里，所以倒没真正意义上看过雨天。而今天的雨水，也是那么朦胧。不得不说，这是我见过最特别的雨天，像雾一样的雨水，环绕在身边。若是比上眼睛，就只剩淅淅沥沥的声音萦绕在耳畔，久久不散，再睁开眼睛，又是水雾一片。

待我们回到屋内，换完了衣服，又过了一会儿，雨就停了。

下午，Billy教我们怎样点篝火，之后让我们自己点燃。架起木头，是为了留空间让火呼吸；放些木屑、纸屑，是为了助火焰茁壮成长。我们很快点燃了它，而且不断添柴，越烧越旺。

啊！火！它现在不仅仅是流离状的火，还是怒放的生命！着熊熊燃烧的烈火，是上天的馈赠，瞧那姿态，分明是健壮的、燃烧的、灼热的，融入了无数坚定的信念、无畏的勇气，顽强的毅力，还有，不屈的意志。甚至我们将要完全扑灭它的时候，他又再次爬起来，东山再起。

那些不就是我们所需要的吗？