-Something that took place in school-

Every Thursday and Friday, something happens. You know what's happening? It's my Red Cross CCA Training! I made it sound so important, never mind. Well today, I'm going to talk about my CCA that I attended a few hours ago.

RED CROSS
Being part of Red Cross means that we have to think and act fast(in an emergency), have discipline and are armed with first-aid skills that can be used anywhere. Not to forget, we are also good in Footdrill.

And so, i shall talk about my training today. Since i am part of a Footdrill Competition, our trainings now focus entirely on footdrills rather than First-Aid. This means intensive footdrill training for 4 hours each day on Thursday and Friday.

Okay, as per normal, we prepared for the training and stood in our squad position first. After the seniors (sirs) instructed us to go down to the red brick area(the school hostel), we acted with a sense of urgency in us. We reached there from the fourth floor in less than 2 minutes. As you can see, we act fast. Anyways, we stood in squad position again with our shoulders pulled back and our elbows locked. That made us look smart. Our squad comprises of both the Sec 2s and Sec 3s as both levels are in the competition together. Today, our sirs focused on our marching and wheeling (the movement of turning right or left during marching). Man, it was hard. We had problems synchronizing our wheeling steps, our marching was also slightly out occasionally. Our arm swings weren't coordinated as well. This obviously sparked the fury of our sirs and they 'knocked us down'(a slang in uniformed groups that means go into push-up position).
We got 70 push ups altogether from our mistakes. Well, i have to say, we deserved it. With that kind of standard, we wouldn't survive in the competition. We had minimal water breaks too. Imagine marching in the blistering hot weather with no water for roughly 2 hours. How torturous is that? Very.

After all that intensive footdrills, we proceeded on to RECREATION! That was a very rare occurrence as we don't have time to play usually. You know, footdrilling all day? After discussion, we decided to play 'Block Catching'. It's just like catching, just that we're hiding in the school and catching in the school. We can't hide in toilets, classrooms and the science labs. That would be plain cheating. Our floor limit was floor 4 to floor 7. That was a pretty big area to play with. We played three rounds of that and we proceeded back to the fourth floor. We went to the staircase landing for our debrief. We talked about our mistakes and the ways of improvement. After that, we were dismissed. Although it has been tiring, it has been an rewarding experience for all of us.

21 Jan 2010