A never-ending road to freedom
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They call it PMS because "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken. And as I said before, I never repeat myself.
- Julian Lopez

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Thursday, November 6, 2008
two great days 3:25 PM

The camp in the zoo was unexpectedly very fun. We had nice facilitators but some teachers weren't really nice... We reached and heard teachers nagging for a few minutes. Then, it was time to MOVE IT!!! We went to meet Yeng Yen and Isaac, the wonderful facilitators. We were the only group with two facilitators. Anyway, we are Inuka, a polar bear with bazooka. Lame... After getting to know us, it was time to show off our cheer to everyone else. It went like this: OI! OI! OI! OI! OI! Unfortunately, the right to choose which group had tea first went to the teachers. Of course, Omar, a group consisting entirely of girls, was awarded the right. Everyone jeered with hatred for those sexist teachers. In the end, we were fourth to go for tea but sadly, there was no more grape juice. We cursed...

Next, we saw some cool creatures. Obviously, everyone was clicking their cameras but a lot of flashes were caught. Flash photography was disallowed. Hmm, after that we strolled to some place to take a shower. Some boys, including me, managed to jump the queue cos we were brought to another place. After the shower, many of us were shocked when we saw each other with spiked hair. Mine wasn't cos it was too short... On the way back, we managed to see Inuka, Sheba, Omar, Winnie, Jippie and some others.

It was time to makan makan... There was nuggets, chicken and rice. Apple was the fruit... When dinner was over, we headed to the Night Safari. There was this fishing cat trail which was quite boring and then, the tram ride, which was quite ok.

After that, the Creatures of the Night show... We were in for a little treat by some ang moh clowns when the show hadn't started yet. They startled us by encouraging everyone at the show to do a wave. Everyone was unenthu at first but later, we began to be amused. Finally, a zookeeper came and asked them to have a seat. They should have put those clowns in an enclosure.

We went back to the auditorium to have supper and then, we went to the pavillion by the lake to sleep. At first, it was stuffy but later, it became alright. None of us actually slept well... Morning came and some evil animals decided to wake us up by screaming loudly and we woke up an hour before schedule.

Breakfast was scrambled eggs (bad), hash brown (good) and sandwiches (neutral). Inuka got to feast on breakfast first because we sang a cheer loudest. Then, we had a behind the scenes tour of fragile forest. We got to touch a caterpillar, stick insect and madagascan hissing cockroach.The caterpillar was super soft, the stick insect was very ticklish cos it was poking us and the roach was quite unusual.

Then, 15 minutes of fun was what we had but that wasn't enough. We were playing when suddenly, some girls came by and tried to shoot us... with their cameras. We escaped... The flying fox thing was addictive but fun.

Anyway, we went for the second behind the scenes and got to capture many creatures on our cameras. But we got to touch a white snake too... Lunch was next! It was KFC. Pepsi was the first thing I didn't like. The chicken tasted weird but the whipped potato was fine. We were so full. Then, the teachers allowed us into the gift shop for some time. Everything was super expensive! But I bought Inuka, the polar bear.

Then, on the bus, we bullied the girls in front of us... I took many photos but the software is on the CPU which is being repaired so your patience is appreciated.