Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

The second evening session of the Student Leadership Camp was the Socials Night. This one started way beyond the scheduled time not only because of the delayed dinner (from the extended afternoon session) but also because the students took a long time in preparing their awards for their fellow participants, and their presentations.

This, by the way, was after we had already brought home the five facilitators from the school to the west, which is also part of the system.

We even got to the point, waiting for the evening session to begin, where we threatened the three groups that the last one to be complete would be the first to perform.

After the first two groups awarded each member of the other two groups with some wacky individual recognition, we had an Energizer game.

It couldn’t be exactly described as an Icebreaker activity because it came in the middle of the whole team building session.

For this one the students had to bid on certain items in which to wrap a raw egg assigned to each group. But they can’t bid with cash. Instead they had to use articles of clothing, undergarments being the most expensive.

Of course the point of the whole exercise again was about whether or not they were willing to go the ultimate distance (as delineated by the activity) for the team.

At least the competition, no matter how heated up it got, resulting in both teams taking the fall with their protected eggs intact.

It was also during this time that we had the bonfire and the barbeque, which the students shelled out extra money for over and above the dinner package already served by the monopolizing concessionaire.

For the second night, the students also stayed up longer than on the first night because most of them had to write letters to their “babies” as well as the other participants of the camp so they won’t feel left out.

In consequence, of course, the morning session of the third day started out much later than expected. But this was the most practical part, where we were supposed to coordinate our list of activities between the Student Affairs Office, the Student Council and the recognized student organizations for the first term solidly, and the rest of the term tentatively.

There were two organizations though, who only had representatives and not officers, and these were also members of other organizations that they were there to stand in for, whose scheduled list of activities were so vague that I (for it was Student Affairs Director Sir Ronnie and I who facilitated this part of the program) instead just told them we’d send their respective organizations the finalized list from the other organizations and they had to give their schedule of activities from around that.

Most likely I’ll finish up about the leadership camp next time, then move on to the last three activities for the summer break. With this I wrap up session number 597. Class dismissed.