Tent Pitching, 9th April 2016

Written: Cheong Yew Meng, Sixer & Scribe

It was a normal Saturday scouts meeting but there was a special meeting that was only for the sixers and assistant sixers. We were told by Raksha that we had to come at 8.15am, 45 minutes before the meeting actually began. There was a new parent volunteer whom we address as Mr Cheong. He gave all of the sixers and assistant sixers a good talk about our standard of discipline and told us to work for our progress badges.

“Beep…. Beep…. Horseshoe!” The senior sixers shouted. We started the meeting 15 minutes later as the sixers had a good talk by mister Cheong and have not set up the flagpole yet. After all the horseshoe ceremony. There was a minor change in six members. We collected the money for the movie tickets to see the jungle book in the cinema.

Then, mister Tan told us that we had to pitch a tent. We went out to the field to watch mister tan pitch a tent. Although it was boring and many six members asked their sixer if they could drink water, we all stayed and watched till the end.

It then came to the hard part-pitching the tent. The sixers did their best in commanding and physically helping. very soon, all the tents managed to stand up and was fixed. Some six members went in their built tent and had fun. They were disappointed when they were Told to unpack the tent. it was a long process but they managed to do it.

We went back to the kidzone to rest and to wait for those who have not finished packing. Baloo appeared and he told us about the behaviour we should observe at the cinema. The fate of the place where the six is sitting lies in the hands of the sixers. they drew lots and some were lucky, some were not. We ended the meeting by doing the sunset party and went home happily.