Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Written by: Nicole Yee, Assistant Senior Sixer & Scribe The recruits slowly inched their way into the kid zone apprehensively. As I walked towards the kid zone, I remembered the very day, 5 years ago, when I skipped to my very first scout camp as a P2 girl. Recruit's camp is definitely a huge milestone in every Cub Scout's journey, as it teaches us to be independent and gives us a chance to stay away from our parents for one night. As a sixer, I was able to join the camp as a service scout, so that we could help out during the camp. After a briefing from Baloo, the recruits were assigned to their respective sixes, while the assistant sixers took on the role of duty sixer for the camp. Then, the service scouts and recruits parted ways; the service scouts went to practise our skits, while the recruits followed Baloo to go and play some games. At  11:30am , we decided to stop rehearsal for a while and help the recruits cook their instant noodles. The smell of the steami...

Written by: Sarah Njauw, Sixer & Scribe “Beep! Beep! Horseshoe!” The Senior Sixer blew the whistle as the scouts (and recruits), quickly lined up into the Horseshoe formation as the recruits lined up behind the scouts. Today, I was very excited about this week’s meeting, because,today we are going to do an activity: lantern making! We were told to bring red packets, tassels staplers and small decorations. Before the activity started, the recruits were assigned to their six (but it is not permanent.) , and we sat in a circle to get to know each other better, like introducing themselves, and sharing experiences and opinions. At last, we started making the lanterns. We had to fold the lantern into a “diamond” shape. Then make one more and staple both together. The instructions may sound simple, but it was quite tedious and it takes a lot of time. I’m not a person who could to do crafts nicely and neatly, especially when it comes to folding paper. After minutes of hard work, we fin...

Written by: Chong Min Wenn, Senior Sixer & Scribe The first 2 weeks of the year had flown by and it was finally time for the first scout meeting of the year. Everyone was excited as to see what the year had in store for us. This meeting was very different as we had recruits joining us! After colour party, the recruits were brought somewhere else to do some activities while the scouts sat on the floor, waiting for Baloo to give the first command. “Let’s start with campfire songs!’’ Baloo suggested. Everybody started chanting, “BEE SONG! BEE SONG!’’ Baloo wanted to do the bee song last, therefore we revised quarter-master store and Baloo taught us a new song “Down by the station”. After all that was done, we eventually sang the bee song. Everybody was laughing their heads off as we changed the last sentence from “to go down to the paddy field” to “to go to HELL!’’. Before we knew it, the meeting was over and the recruits joined us for sunset party. This meetin...