Patrol Leader's Training Camp :)

Hello! Yeah, as the title suggests, Im going to blog about PLTC.
So, PLTC is mainly just about teaching us how to be a good PL in future, and most of the sessions took place in the olave hall. Just like a typical classroom setting.
Boring. But the trainers put in effort to make it interesting even though the lesson itself was dry.
And we had like 5 meals per day, which explains the 1kg I gained from the camp. Although it seems like I was the only one eating most of the elevenses and tea break cookies.
Sorted ourselves into patrols, which I am in BANANA. Yeah, easy to guess that its yellow house. :P It was super epic when our PL said BANANA AT EASE. I swear it was so damn hard to control my laughter. And I like my patrol so much cos they're really super helpful patrol mates and an awesome patrol leader. XD Kinda miss doing activities with them. As for the leadership lessons, we think that our school is walking somehow a different direction from the guides hq. And maybe that's the reason why we are lagging one year behind from other schools. So we were thinking that probably after handover, we can really make ourselves clear about the different testwork and stuffs that we're going to do, and most importantly let our juniors have fun and up their standards in the process too. :)
So, first night, kaixin weixuan qijia and I went to clean the toilet and also emptied all the garbage bags in camp christine. Then we sneaked into olave hall to grab our supper and started chatting under the moonlight. pretty max :)
Next day was still as dry, but we were looking forward to PGA's campfire (President guide award). So we realised that traditional campfire has no emcees or blasting music, but it was sing-along and dancing throughout.
So the PLTC guides pulled off a dance using dj's got us falling in love again. Super hiphop-ish, and we managed to learn it in an hour. And half of the PLTC people had to sing to the song. LOL at their singing :P but overall its cool.
The PGA guides really lived up to their name. We were amazed at how that one PG could control 150 audience in 2h. We heard that they had a wet weather plan in the olave hall, so after dismissal, weixuan and I went to olave hall to check out their indoor plan. That PG was still there clearing up the stuffs and taught us about using pressure lamp, translucent coloured papers and wires to make a fake campfire. and it'll look real and stable.
So second night the 4 of us were chatting at night again, and we really think the PG taught us quite a few good stuffs. Now, campfire in the hall won't be impossible and it could be as enjoyable as it is in the outdoors.
And, we felt that it is very wasted for our level guides to not be able to take part in PG just because we were unsure of the criteria for a PG. (we actually have to finish our gold badge before attempting PG.) And after seeing how the PGs conducted their campfire, I really could say that most of the guides in our level have the same standard as them, or even better.
Anyways, PLTC really had the 4 of us inspired with new ideas to improve the current batch of guides and I hope that after handover, all these ideas will be implemented and we'll handover to the juniors without feeling guilty that we did not put in our very best <3