My First Brutal Camp

On the 8th of February, our school organized a camp specifically for me and the other KRS (Kadet Remaja Sekolah) students at The Jungle Lodge Alang Sendayu, which is located at Gombak. Before we depart, we were divided into groups. I was in group one, together with Daniel, Aniq, Imran and so on. After our Asar prayers, we were asked to build our tent and we sucessfully completed before 7pm. Next, we gathered some woods, cooking utensils and a few blocks of starters to create some sort of a natural stove. We were happy as we managed to cook our food for our dinner, which was rice, ormelette and sardine. Wow, it was seriously tasty! After we did our jamak prayers, we create gadgets for our tent, like a trash can and shoe rack. Finally, before we sleep, we made our own time appointment to wake up and prevent the fire from putting off. My appointed time was from 3 to 4am. On the second day, after Subuh, we went to a big field for the assembly. We sang the KRS song, the syabab & fatayat song and much more. Some students were punished by doing push ups for not performing well in the assembly. Next, we made our breakfast, which was bread with ormelette & sardine. At 10 something, we participated a 'building a raft competition'. Our raft so far performed well although it isn't upright. Then, we watched some traps used in the jungle and it was cool. It was followed by the blow pipe demonstration. For lunch, we made rice with rendang, which was so yummy. At the evening, we entered the jungle to take nipah leaves and then, weaving it, which was so challenging to me. For dinner, instead of using the natural stove, we cooked using bamboo. How we did was, we washed it, putting leaves inside and filling it with the food we need. For the rice, we filled the leaves with rice and putting it inside the bamboo. At 10:30pm, we gathered to do the night walk activity. We heard a few speeches and made our doa before we enter. At the first part of the activity, we were allowed to use torchlight. However, at the second part, we can't use torchlight, which made me petrified. I got even nervous as I can't almost see a thing. But alhamdulillah, we went to the finishing point of the activity. During the time to get back to the camp, I looked at my watch. IT WAS 12 MIDNIGHT! We then gathered in one line and then, THE MOST CHALLENGING, NERVOUS PART IN MY LIFE metaphorically raised its curtains. It was a solo walk activity. For me, it was the CLIMAX among the other activities of the camp. Here, we were asked to WALK ALONE WITHOUT USING TORCHLIGHT to a place few meters away from our campsite. The ghost image appeared in my mind making me extremely scared. As I walked, I called my friend waiting for me to be gone, which was Hazman. There was no response. I kept moving. Then, he appeared and rejected me to be with him. Although I can't see a thing, but I saw white patches located at the path while I was walking. I heard a cat sound made by the teachers while I was on the way. As I moved, I was shocked to hear a 'baa!!' (which was the sound used for shocking). I knew that the sound was from a teacher. Finally, I saw a few lights ahead. I was relieved that it was the finish point of the solo walk activity. After all students had completed the solo walk, we took a shortcut back to our campsite. We arrived there at 1 something. On the third day, we woke up late because we were tired. So, after Subuh, there was no assembly and we took a small rest instead. At around 9:30am, we participated in jungle trekking to the waterfall. The distance we took was more than a kilometer and took almost one hour and 45 minutes to reach there! We went through a river tunnel, slopes and cross a river to reach there. At the waterfall, I played with stones whilst the other students got wet after they had shower there. During lunch, we had chicken rice. It was very delicious until I took another plate. After we did our jamak qasar Zuhor and Asar, we cleaned our tent. The ustaz came to inspect our tent and alhamdulillah, there was no complaints. Then, we destroyed our tent and gathered our bags. On the way back to school, there was a part where I was humiliated because of something relating to a girl and me. The bus was almost 100% noisy just because of that. Even Hassan, one of the prefects at school, got influenced by that. Well, that was something sensational, which means to cause great excitement to public. As you know, this is actually normal to teenagers. That was one of my most adventurous experience in my life until I called this camp, 'a brutal camp'.