AAAHHH!!!! KAYAKING SO TOTALLLY RAWX! yesterday like, 25 scouts went for the one-star kayaking course, but shermaine and i couldn't go, since we had church today. it's a two day thing. so, we went down in the late afternoon yesterday and they had just finished the first 6hr lesson when we reached the campsite. since uncle C.J. was there with the van, he helped transport the tents and bags and stuff to the campsite. while we were loading up the stuff, we heard someone say HE'D BE WILLING TO TAKE ONE EXTRA PERSON OUT FOR FUN!! he was an instructor. ok you guys can imagine me screaming, until i remembered that there was me AND SHERMAINE. being good-natured and kind and giving and pretty and all , [LOLLING. just kidding.] i let shermaine have the extra place. in the end the in he was willing to take us both out, and we got a double canoe. GAAAH! ok, so we unloaded the stuff SO violently and got our life-vests and paddles and all, and carried the kayak to the shore. boy, was i excited. anyways, the instructor had changed, as in, it was a different person. he looked abit less friendly. he taught us the basics and told us to stay within the little space so close to the shore. like, siao ah, where to paddle to? the rocks?? we were just paddling away and i noticed he looked SO bored and he let out little laughs when shermaine and i kept barging into things, so i shouted, "yahlah yahlah funny right? laugh lah!!" and he laughed even more. he then mentioned that our paddling was better than the ppl who took the course earlier that day!. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! a few mins l8r the original instructor came, and i think he was REALLY much nicer. he was seriously impressed my our paddling and said, "actually, ur paddling is ... much better ... than those who took the course just now... heh." AAAAH! GAAAAHH! WOOOHOOOO!!!!! TWICEEEEE!!!!! i wanted to jump out into the water, swim to him and hug him or smth. he TOLD US TO PADDLE TO THE BRIDGE! which was like, a few km away. ok that was when i confirmed he was my favourite instructor. hahaaaah. we kept trying to splash water on him and kept teasing him and he kept asking about homeschooling until i said something witty or sharp and then he shut up. the best thing was, IT WAS SUNSET AND THERE WAS MUSIC PLAYING ACROSS THE WHOLE BASIN!! it was coming from some big loud speaker. we paddled all the way to the base of the bridge and he told us to go touch it with our paddles or smth. we floated around near the bridge for quite a long time, and the breeze was fantastic. he taught us some kayaking techniques and some stuff about capsizing and he said too bad we couldn't go for the course. i was having the time of my life out there, and the people on the bridge were staring at this lil long legged girl half sleeping in a floating kayak with her legs up on the boat. soon the news that the food had arrived at the campsite made our coach want to go back, and so we headed back. he kept shouting he could smell the food from out there. lols. everytime we stopped paddling on the way back he'd shout," EH YOU LEDEZ FISHING AH?" hahaha. i didn't wanna stop paddling. i wanted to paddle until my arms broke off. :D we got back and headed for the campsite. we'd been out for about an hour. after dinner and tent pitching, it was nite games time. one of the sir's name is chee hua, but i either call him ET [he's shorter than shermaine.] or chrysenthemum. :)) he's real funny, but didn't even bother to know everyone's names. at least not mine? :\ so, two delegates frm each patrol [grp] played human entanglement [everyone anyhow hold hands and try to get into a circle as fast as possble. this game everyone played], newspaper dance [keep folding the newspaper and dancing on it TO TECH MUSIC. only two ppl frm each patrol played.] and the lamest game of all, one star scouts idol. all participants [anyone whu thinks he or she can dance]of this game are blindfolded, you can choose to be a participant or a judge. there were, of course, alot of judges. the blindfolded ppl had to dance in front of the judges, and the best dancer wd win. actually all we were doing was sabo-ing the best dancer, by making her dance and dance like an idiot even tho everyone had left the front and were facing her. we kept saying, hurry up! your competetion getting stronger, when there wasn't any competetion and she'd dance harder and harder. in the end we stopped the music and all stared at her for a long while, until she became smart enuff to take off the stupid blindfold. it's a really lame prank, but we all laughed until we could have fainted. :)) didn't really have a good sleep, but i'm used to it. woke up this morning to a vigerous 5, or rather 20BX. the rangers didn't give us a chance, mann. like, 30 jumping jets to the right, 15 sit ups, 15 push ups, 45degree leg lifting, 50 counts of 4 of up hand clapping, stretches, stretches and more stretches. all at 6:15 in DA MORNINGG. had area cleaning and some morning activities and shermaine and i left at 8+. i got a relly big bruise on my knee from banging into a road .. metal thing while i was trying to hop over it in a frenzy TWICE. i think i broke my kneecap. oh wells.