Division 15 Goes to Camp

Division 15 went to Camp Sasamat as a part of their 3rd term physical education. 

At Camp Sasamat, there are many different activities such as: archery, canoeing, learning how to walk on low ropes, wood chopping and fire building--we made smores after the fire was built. 

Camp Sasamat is a good location for others to go because it has many different activities, and you get to have fun while looking at great scenery.  The camp site is also fairly large.  It is also a good social event because any problems have to be dealt with by you.

Some people were familiar with the workings of Camp Sasamat, so they knew how things worked.

Before we went to Camp Sasamat, everything was planned out in a neat itinerary.  It showed when we ate, what we do at certain times, when we leave and when we arrive. Although sometimes activities ran longer, we still tried to stick to the schedule.

During meal times, before people could sit down and enjoy their meals with friends and people from the other class, one cabin group was chosen to setup the tables.  They had to move and spread the tables and benches so that they were evenly spaced out.  Then they take the proper utensils for that meal, and spread them on the tables so that in a table there are 16 seats.  At every section of the table there are serviettes, napkin dispensers and a pitcher of water.  

When the meals are prepared we can sit down and wait as a teacher asks us to pick a number between 1 and 10, the winner will get food first.  After people finish their meals they are allowed to have seconds, but they have to wear a hei lei to get off the table.  The reason for this is because there is only one hei lei on each section, only a few people can get up at a time to avoid a large group of people all walking around.

 Here is a link to a presentation for meals-->Meals

In the itinerary, our cabins are chosen before we arrive at the camp.  We also got to choose who was in our cabin group.  All activities' grouping revolve around these groups.  A few of the cabins include a teacher as adult supervision, most didn't however.

As one of the first group activities, we walked around the lake of Camp Sasamat.  During that time we took many breaks to take large group photos.  The lake is surrounded by many trees and has a large cement bridge that goes through the middle of the lake and is littered with fisherman.  During our walk around the lake, we had to collect different things on the ground of nature; these include: branches, stones, and other natural things from the ground.  The reason why we collected the items were because a famous artist used things from nature to create different shapes and symbols, so division 15 and 16 tried to imitate him.

 During the course of the second day, we did a lot of activities.  The whole schedule for this was also planned out, and there were only a few blocks of free time.  All the cabins were put together into a few groups; they were combined by cabin groups, for example: Boys Cabin 3 goes together with Girls Cabin 3, to make sure that there weren't 60 people at one station; the groups were spread out so that some groups were doing activities and others were relaxing with free time. Each group was doing a different activity.

Theatre sports was an activity done by everybody for entertainment. The way we found out what our performance would be: we'd pick a place, person and what we would say and then we would have a few minutes to make up a skit and practice it to perfection--or at least, as close to perfection as we could.  Then we would perform and get appeal. The skits we created included much humour, which everyone enjoyed.

After a day of fun activities, we sat by a campfire, and sang campfire songs.  We got marshmallows and hot chocolate.  Early in the night we played some simple games such as "bang" where the whole group is in a large circle and the teacher calls out names.  A person with their named called must duck, while the people on both sides, those to people must make a gun with their hands and point it at the other person while shouting "bang!" hence the name.  The winner is 'who does the gesture and shouts first.'  The loser is the one who says the shout and/or the gesture second, or if the person ducking doesn't duck fast enough they are considered dead.  Last person standing is the winner.  

After the games and songs we go back to the lodge and have another cup of nice, warm hot chocolate then we head back to our cabins to get our supplies for brushing our teeth.  

Thanks to the cover of the woods, that and the fact that it is 10:30 at night it is pitch black, so traversing through the woods without a working flashlight is especially dangerous and hard if your cabin is very far away from the lodge.  This is why it is always a good idea to get your flash light.  When we get back to our cabins we have to sleep at 11 o'clock, so we have some time to chat a bit.  In the morning we can only get out at 8:00 AM, before that if we get up, we can't leave our cabin.

Here's the link for the short presentations on the Activities we did in camp, and a link to the presentation Life in Camp.