2004 | HKIR Territorial Camp

Day Two

Early rise ~

I didn’t sleep well last night, so I got up early in the morning. The scouts in my tent seemed to have a nice sleep last night. To begin a day, a good breakfast is very important. We went to the sub-camp office and took our “breakfast box” (a box that containing a recipe and the uncooked breakfast). To our delightful surprise, the breakfast consisted of heavenly lunchon meat with instant noodles. This shone us a line of hope to better catering in the coming 3 days.

Challenges ~

After breakfast, we had to head to different outdoors activities. Some of us had to leave the campsite and go for a 20km hike (a challenging task in the heat). By the way, the main theme of this camp was “Meet the Challenge”. To 'meet the challenge' we had to do our best and show our scout spirit: Be Prepared! I was allocated to a pioneering group. We had to build a raft but it would not need to be tested in the water. It was a sunny day, and the weather was extremely hot. I didn’t want to move in such a hot weather, so I quickly left after finishing my part and went back to have lunch. As I was eating my lunch, I was concerned for the scouts who had to walk in such a hot and sunny weather. I felt that I was so lucky.

In the afternoon, I went to the middle of the campsite where there were booths featuring: the Ideology of the global village. There were different themes in the global village, e.g. Nature and Science, Information Technology, Cultural and Arts and Scout history. The most interesting theme was the Cultural and Arts, there were different kinds of chess, and you must be intelligent enough to play or else you CAN’T MEET THE CHALLENGE. I found my skin was becoming darker and darker than this morning because no sunscreen was put on. The scout who came back from the 20km hike was more serious than I was and got all RED! Their whole bodies seem like burning.

Party again ~

We finished our dinner and prepared to go to the second night party in the camp. The idea was to save the disappearing campfire. Each sub-camp represents a kind of tribe. And ours was a snake tribe. Each tribe had to dance or sing for the God of Fire and was given something to act. The party was not too interesting maybe because of the bad sound effects and people were too hot and tired for a party so the atmosphere was not “high”.

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