2008 年全国华文学会领袖研讨会

Had just came back from 2008年全国华文学会领袖研讨会 organized by 宗乡青. Was very grateful that I went this time. The camp was quite the same as what I've been through, the programs, feel, the environment and many things more. The only different is that the organizers are nicer, better, and the crowd with 308 people from all over the country. Was kinda shock to know that there are so many people attending it and was proud being one of them. Here's a quick review about what we had done these 3 days.

6 December 2008 (Saturday)
Took a bus down and reached 尊孔独中. Are late but we did made it as we were kind lost at first. Got into our groups which had been given names by the organizers. I joined the 林肯帮...Got to know some of my group mates and learned our camp song. The song was fantastic. Am loving it. Ice-breaking really made us feel more family like. All 17 of us get along pretty well. We performed our group slogan which I think was kinda lame during group introduction. 甘证豪 gave a very interesting speech about becoming successful. It was the BEST workshop in the whole camp. Love this guy man... Got a chance to eat with my group mates for the 1st time. Noticed a very gentleman like guy in my group who is kinda cute. He help me fetched a drink for me when he noticed that I did not have one. THANKS!!! We had a really fun game which is to leave messages or letters in the mail box of each group. Each of us had to write a letter to an anonymous. We can also leave messages to our friends and group mates when ever we want. Everyone started to mail each other since then. Slept immediately after having a good chat with Yi.

7 December 2008 (Sunday)

Woke up quite early that day. We actually had to wake up by 7.30am that day but many girls started to wake up from 5am. We had a nice breakfast and went on dancing our camp theme song again. Joined by 2 Workshops before lunch. I joined the 花灯制作workshop and made a nice plastic lotus...But it didn't really turn out as I had expected...Mine is really ugly and kept falling apart. Haiz..What a failure..We had a talent night later. All groups are compulsory to perform a sketch about famous people. And my group did a sketch about Gandhi. It did went well but we didn't get the best group. haha...anyway, we still felt happy. We had a heart to heart talk later. Everyone had benn given a candle and we had a fire light passing ceremony in which we pass the fire along so that everyone get to lit their candle. The main aim of this session is to make sure all fo us will pass the Chinese culture down from generation to generation so that it won't extinct. Many campers went out expressing their feelings anf thoughts and many cried too as they were very touched of what had been said and that the camp had changed many people. We didn't get a chance to bath that day until midnight and many of us went bathing after all the activities. There were a forum going on next day and some of the presenters stayed up late to prepare for it. Some of us stayed up to reply letters to our friends as the next day was the last day of camp. Was very surprised to see the organizers still working up until the next morning. Some of them didn't even sleep. Really admired their spirit.

Sketch...

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8 December 2008 (Monday)
Its the last day of the camp. All of us were kinda tired as we slept quite late the day before. Many fell asleep during the forum which made the Camp Leader furious and that we did not respect the people talking. Felt knida bad as I had not been paying much attention to it actually. We started packing our luggage after the last workshop and had the last meal of the camp. Me and my group members stayed together and waited for the last person to finish her meal. We took some photos together and we finished the leftovers together as a group and was very proud of our team spirit. For the 1st time we felt like a true family... Was kinda down later as there was a session for heart to heart talk later that day. Took another full campers photo and ran around the hall over and over again. We celebrate the last moment together and felt very high till the end. My group members took photos together and then pack and left. Felt very sad leaving all my new friends and departed back home. Had a nice talk with my school friends in the bus and all we talk was about the camp what had happened and etc. Started to miss all the moments already. Haiz....Heavy hearted....

林肯帮...

Its was kinda great but was kinda disappointed as it wasn't what I've expected. I didn't really feel anything special or different from me. But I did really get along with my group members and was very happy to get to know some really nice people. It doesn't matter whether we meet next year or keep in contact the days later, all this will be a very good memory for all of us. I hope that we will still remember each other when we meet again. Am missing all Group 12 members very much....Hope to meet them soon....