PROPEX Camp

1 March 2019:
All of the executive committees were instructed to join the PROPEX camp to get all of us prepared for the Ungku Omar Open Day. It is my college's open day. As one the executive committee members, I was also included to join the camp. PROPEX is Program Pemantapan Rakan Exco or Executive Committee Enhancing Programme.

There were approximately 70 of us were able to join the camp while the rest had to attend classes which was inevitable to be excused. Three buses were used to carry all of us to the camp.

Just as we got there, there were no reception for DiGi, which was the Telco I used. Celcom users were lucky enough to even have 4G reception and were able to be updated about anything happened back at college or UPSI and were to contact their parents.

We were then told to set up our own camp. I setted the camp with others in no time.

The camp we setted up was near the river. One the member almost lose his shoe due to the strong current.

Later on we were to be gathered at the open hall where we first arrived. We were there until night falls. We did some fun activities and discussed the lessons learnt from each and every activities. Before we could go back to our tents, we were told by the facilitator to gather on the field just beside the river. He told us that he was going to detain us for being careless and impolite. The mistakes of one or two person became all of our fault. The first was the shoe problem caused by one of the camp participant early in the evening. The other one was too much laughing and talking. That he made us rolled on the ground with sands and small rocks. However, which made him got the temper and told us to gather on the field was because of blowing a whistle. Got too excited that this person blew a whistle to support a member appointed as head of safety committee, due to the fact that whistles were allowed to be blown in case of emergencies.

After a long and elaborate speech, we were told to be submerged ourselves in the river water for an hour. I was unable to cooperate with such matters that I kept quiet the whole time and my chest suddenly felt hurt every time I tried to breathe in. Luckily one of the girl stood up for us as she was very brave to do that. She debated with the facilitator and got us another chance to not being submerged in the river water. We were then told to go back to our tents and took some sleep. It was already midnight. I applied my inhaler as soon as I got into my tent as I was almost suffocating. I never really wanted to tell anyone about this but I still had minor asthma although it was supposed to be gone. I think the dust while rolling on the ground entered my respiratory system did that.

2 March 2019:
The following day we woke up at 6 and gathered at 7 in the morning. We were asked to do a few not so challenging activities, which was team building, water floating (water tubing was cancelled due to shallow waters and lack of tubes) and jungle cooking (jungle trekking was also cancelled). Time flew really fast. The facilitator changed his perspective about us (being a little considerate). Later that night we were doing our own shows, unprepared and not idea rich. The judges were unsatisfied so we had no winner from the shows.

Water floating

We were gathering before the jungle cooking activity

So tired as we may be, miraculously we were able to walk into our tents and slept at around 2 o'clock in the morning. I had to apply my inhaler again in order to be able to sleep as my breathing was kind of blocked in my chest.

3 March 2019:

We had the real meeting about the college's open day. It was not like a meeting but like a briefing and proposing them to all of us, including the college's felos. Never knew they went all the trouble, I meant all of us went all the trouble just get to know our work scope during the college's open day. Still tired, hungry and mainly our energy was drained so much, we went back to our college right after we had lunch, bathed a little in the river and tore down our camps.

Took a little bath in the river

All of us who joined PROPEX camp

This photo proves everyone was tired after the camp while on the bus going back to the college

Camps such as this were I hope to see better really soon, though my assignments and task could not wait to finish by itself. Stay tuned!