VENUS - Planet Diary Tuesday 7th August 2007
Campers: Abbas Fazal, Azim Gulamali, Salman Hassanali, Hasnain Jetha, Zuhayr Kassamali, Hossain Muthaliff, Khalil Rajbhai and Haider Rubbani
Mentors: Ghalib Sheikh & Muhammad-Abbas Rajani
We were all woken up early by Ghalibbha, showered and made our way to breakfast. Breakfast like all the other meals was very tasty. We were served Swedish cheese and omelettes. After breakfast we went to our different classes, our topics for the today were:
1. Who am I? by Fazleabbas uncle
2. Dua-e-Tawassul by Mahmood uncle
3. Salaams, Islamic greeting by the one and only Ali Akber Hussain uncle
4. Internet: good or bad? By Kazimbha D
The lesson on Salaams was very eye opening and interesting, we found this lesson the most enjoyable. In between lessons, we had breaks in which we had delicious jam and custard, pastries and some fruit juice. When classes had finished, we prepared ourselves for namaaz. After namaz, we eagerly awaited lunch that consisted of pilau and salad. After having had a filling meal, we gathered in the PDT building to prepare for salaah and quran assessments.
Many of us were very nervous, but with the mentors help, we managed to feel confident that we could improve on any mistakes we may have made and this helped us to be able to perform namaaz and quraan correctly.
After assessments, we prepared for a range of sports. Our first sport was the low ropes activity and many of us were looking forward to a challenge. The low ropes activity, taught us how to work in a team and how to get through the task together. Many of us had found that the low ropes activity is very fun, thanks to the Swedish instructor, Cristian, who showed us how it should be done. We were told that we had to imagine that we were on a ship and that the captain had become unwell. For this, we had to get the bucket of medicine to the captain without trying to spill any. After many attempts, we got the idea of how it can be done and by working in a team we got very far in the task. At the end of the task, many of us needed a break and also we needed time to prepare for our football tournament against mercury. The football tournament began with a range of warm-ups in order to get us ready for the game. As the game went on, we realised that we could win if we carried on working together. Before we knew it, we had thrashed mecury 7-0! Salman Hassanali scored 4 goals, Haider Rubbani scored 2 goals and Hussain Muthalliff scored 1 goal. All of us played really well and tried our best. The keeper Azim also kept a clean sheet!
After sports we had refreshments which was bananas and juice, we then went to dinner after taking a shower and had pasta. The food was good and we all had two to three rounds of it as we liked it so much. After dinner we had the daily PDT session which was really fun. We had lateral thinking quizzes that were a little difficult as we had to think fast in little time. We also had boggle and a mentor intro that was very interesting to listen to. After the mentor intro, we had a news report and postbag were many of us had messages read out from home.
After PDT, we had our planet time in which we all talked about what we done and were given a brief on what we should be expected to do. The planet time ended at about just one of the long and fun days we had before retiring to bed.
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