Encounter 2008 : Best weekend, ever.

P.S. I'm going to try to follow Jane's style of blogging for once, to make it easier to read, and less lumpy. 'Cause this is a long, image heavy post. Sarah wants to be credited for her pictures and her wish shall be granted.

Day one:
Went Bugis with Esse, Sarah and Deborah.
Bought a whole lot of barang.
Deborah and I bought rolling stones! And Esse and I bought pretty caps.
Met the rest of the gang at Sengkang (was it? I can't remember) and had Kfc for dinner.
Yvonne met us there and gave us this whole bag of goodies for us to snack on during the encounter.
Thanks, Yvonne (:

Waited for the bus to encounter campsite.
Took pictures!!! But they're with Lianne, I think.
Yvonne waited with us :D

Had some really light worship and lesson for the first day,
then off to sleep!
The dorm wasn't all that good looking at first, but we totally loved it after the whole encounter.
Lianne and I shared a bunk!
Deborah with Regine, Esse with Sarah, and Lauren with Li Jun.

Had trouble sleeping-,-
I swear, Lianne slept like a pig on top of me.
Esse, Deborah and I were awake for the longest, and we drew pictures of people on Esse's book!
We were laughing like idiots, and we had to leave the room to laugh.
Oh, and Lianne totally sleep talked!
She talked rubbish.
Seriously, it wasn't even English.
Just some incoherent mumbling.
Deborah slept next, leaving Esse and I to sleep at 4+, 5.
All in all, I had 2 hours of sleep.
Oh joy.

Day two:
Had some lessons in the morning, as usual.
Breakfast wasn't that pleasant, ha.

...

I can't remember, I think this was Day two's night!
I guess I uploaded them in the wrong order, but nevermind :D

Lauren, Esse, Deborah and I playing cards.

Played cheat :D
Apparently, Deborah's lack of cheating skills are pretty darn amusing.
She kept losing, ha.

Love Deborah's reaction.
"Aye! LOSE AGAIN!"

:D

Halfway through the game, we managed, somehow, to move on to the topic of hair.
I was pulling Deborah's hair 'cause she said it'll make it longer :D

Two love birds :D

Lianne didn't join us, 'cause she was sleeping.
And she slept the most the previous night-,-

After our game ...

Time to sleep! Goodnight! :D

Day two/three's bright and cheery morning ... (wrong order, again-,-)

Deborah, Lianne :D

Ruffles make good eyes, don't they? :D

Half-asleep Lianne.

(K, we're finally back on track)
Day two, before games! Group photo!


The first game we played was some bench game,
where you had to move two benches over to another side without stepping on the floor.
It was the best game out of the whole lot!
Our group was paired up with another male group :D

Hahaha, everyone's hugged closely together.
Look at Lianne's expression :DDDDDD

Looking so terrified!!!
The guys were pulling the benches.

I love this photo!
Doesn't it seem like everyone's showing off their muscles?
Sadly, I'm not in it :(
I was trying to pull the bench :D

Time is running out!!

Everyone's practically pulling at each other for support.
And ... we made it in the end!
Record timing!!
The guys did a great job, and so did we :D

Trotted off to another station for the next game, and us girls, being girls, we were totally zi-highing ourselves!
Screaming and jumping around so much, I swear you wouldn't believe Esse and I only slept for 2 hours :D

Evidence available, as you can see.
Don't ask me what I was doing; I seriously don't know.

Crosswords were next!

Lianne and Deborah, racking their brains to find those stupidly embedded words.
I swear I almost went blind -,-

Apparently, for the next station, we were supposed to sing some Titanic song, which I obviously don't know.
Don't ask me what I was doing either.
Everyone's craziness was contagious at that point of time.
:D

Listening attentively (ahem) to the person in charge!

She's teaching us the actions for the Titanic song!
Don't know what baby, don't know what women and don't know what men.
Sink, sink, sink.
Something like that.

I was so happy!
WE were so happy :D

Next station was some water game at the beach!
Supposed to walk to this "X" sign which is out of the boxes.
It's like some mine game. If you walk into a mine, tadaaa, you get splashed with salty sea water.
Go Lauren, go!

Lianne's next! :D

The guys' turn (:

Sarah now!

Anyway, Esse, being the totally logical person that she is, figured out the maze.
Apparently you just have to step out of the stupid box and walk to the "X" thingy -,-
How stupid.

In between all these games, there's some treasure hunt thing.
You're supposed to find a mystery man, some weird items like a strand of hair from someone,
plus a coconut.
We found a small baby coconut! :D
Oh, and we were supposed to find this tree called don't know what.
And it was some trick, but we found it!
The only group who did, too! :D

Next game! We had to go through that (those strings thingy) without touching the string.
Go Esse! :D

Me next!
Can you feeeeeel my concentration?
I totally didn't touch anything!
:D

Deborah attempted!

In the end, everyone just hecked all and pushed through those strings, cause we were out of time!
Hahahah.

One of our treasure hunt thingys.
Group photo!
Spastic me was so tired after all the screaming and energy consuming games :D

Chionged to bathe afterward (we were the firsts in the toilets!), and had a nice dinner.
Which I don't really remember clearly.
I just remembered that it was nice :)

Played cards, as I've already posted on top due to my horrible arrangement of photos,
plus blogger's frustrating functions.

Slept much, much more!
And much better too! :D
Mostly because I was dead tired, and even the lumpy bed felt comfortable!

Day three morning!
Lianne ♥♥
Leaving after breakfast, which is why I changed into jeans.
I look really sleepy, and it's still dark outside.

Everyone changed for church afterward, and we continued cards again.
With Ruffles as our company.
Of course, Deborah's luck didn't change :D

We were sad to leave our dorm,
which we had grown so accustomed to!

Went down for breakfast after packing up.

Dumb Deborah with my cap!
The cap on it's rightful owner :D

Went back to TC, and had somemore lessons.
Everyone really encountered God a whole lot.
Deborah and I got slained.
It was a cool experience.

Had lunch, then took a chartered bus back to Expo.
Everyone was snoozing on the way, lol :D

My favourite people, ever. ♥
I love my cell (((:

Some extras on the experience which I couldn't find space to fit in:

The place was loaded with wasps and bees;
From the dorm to the toilet, I could count like ten dead wasps or something-,-
And there was a bee in our dorm!
Stuck on poor Sarah's bed and wouldn't move!-,-
I tried to pull off the whole bedsheet but only succeeded in making the bee drop onto Esse's bed.
Some guy came to our rescue later and cleaned it up.
:DD

And Deborah totally had a new obsession with some Afganistan (sp?) or Bangla word:
KHAZAAAR.
It means, let's go, according to Deborah.
Although you can't really trust her when it comes to words :D

Oh, and we made fast friends with Lauren, and Li Jun!
I think we all like Li Jun much, much more than Jasmin, ha.

Anyway, throughout this whole experience, we all really had fun!
We had a lot of sharing, a lot of tears, a lot of touching.
And we all knew each other a whole lot better.

Most importantly, we all encountered God.

♥