Campers Diary-Venus
Sunday 12th August 2007 - Day 7
The day began today like usual with a nice breakfast. We were all tired but yet excited as we were going to go to the theme park the next day. We were also dreading the “mid-camp cleanup” which was scheduled instead of planet time. We ran to our classes like usual. The first lesson was with Sajjadbhai on public speaking. We all had an opportunity to talk for 2 minutes without preparation concentrating on our public speaking skills. We then had AliAkbar, and Dr Datoo’s classes that followed on with a talk by Dr Akil Nurmohammed whom we didn’t know. He gave us talk on healthy eating, as well as other health related topics that we really enjoyed.
After classes, we then went to namaaz and lunch. Lunch was very tasty, it was vegetable pilau. After lunch, we had some free time after which we went to Quran Classes. Alhumdulillah we greatly enjoyed the classes as we got to practice confident reciting in different tones.
Later after quran, many of us were looking forward to the sports tournaments. We were really excited about sports because we had 4 tournaments. We began with a basketball tournament against mecury in which we thrashed them 25-5 in 2 games that lasted 15 minutes each. We played really good and showed great sportsmanship and teamwork. We then played a cricket tournament against mercury. It was tied until the penultimate ball in which Haider Rubbani smashed the ball for a 6 which secured the game. It was very close but we just beat them. We then had a table tennis and beach volleyball tournament against mars which we unfortunately lost. In table tennis, we lost 2-1 to mars and in volleyball mars beat us 2-0! We weren’t very upset but happy that we played well. After sports, we were all exhausted from a long day that made us hungry. We looked forward to what was to come for dinner. Dinner was one of the best meals. It was spaghetti bolognaise with salad. Many of us were full and decided to go towards the PDT hall for quizzes. During PDT, many of us played very well and enjoyed the quizzes. After PDT, we went to dessert which was chocolate mousse which was delicious. After dessert, we were told by our mentors, both Ghalib bha and Mohammed Abbas Bha that we had to clean up our rooms. This was very hard as we had to take everything out and sweep the floor. We also found out that we would be awarded points for the cleanest rooms which would mean that we would get the highest scores in quizzes. However, many of us were very tired and after a long 2 hours, we had managed to clean our rooms. We were very tired and when we finished cleaning, we were all asleep in minutes after a long day. We never did win the bonus points for cleaning though!
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