An escape from reality

So venturing out of my comfort zone into something rather different from my usual 'being spoilt by the amenities of the city' kinda thing. 4 days and 3 nights in a church camp themed Bold by my youth group was a refreshing experience and it really touched my heart in so many ways that make me wanna laugh and cry at the same time. Well, basically we resided at El Sanctuary home stay throughout the camp and basically we just carried out all camp activities there as well. The talks were extremely helpful as Pastor Tay covered issues like fear and overcoming it. He wasn't your typical wise man speaker, but he used his life experiences to motivate and encourage us in many different ways which was definitely something that kept me awake during his talks. I also thought that the BGR session was an extremely good one, because as Asians we rarely touch on topics relating BGR. I also enjoyed the time I spent with my devotion group and also playing games (especially captain ball although I'm horrible at it). Other than that I also loved the concept of the wooden chalets that we stayed in which were pretty cute. Plus the food was definitely amazing (sometimes a little too spice but it was really good food), I really loved it though sometimes they would serve me portions which were a tiny bit too big but I was encouraged by Maureen to finish my food! We also had 'Theme
Night' which is basically a night where we dress up according to a theme (this year's theme was WILD WILD WEST) and I was dressed up as a cowgirl :) We did some square dancing, built a teepee, did a charade-ish game and did some more dancing, and it was really fun. At the end of camp I had my feels all over the place, declaring several times that I wouldn't want to leave because I loved it so much, waking up every morning looking forward to another day but I guess camp had to come to an end. I managed to give Pastor Tay and Daniel (the guy who served our food and helps run the place) a note each to express my gratitude :) Well while I was having dinner just now I was just thinking of how fun it would be like to just go back to Malacca again and experience camp all over and it almost got me sobbing. Though I have to say that this camp was by far one of the best camps I've ever attended and I would definitely love to go back to El Sanctuary. It makes the sleepless nights of putting together the Camp Manual worth it because camp was truly amazing. At the end of this post I don't want to forget to thank God for giving me the means to go through this camp with full enthusiasm and also gave me a little spiritual guidance along the way.

Jane.