My first camp

We had our first camp during onam holidays. I wanted to spend my onam with family so I first said no to my seniors but then seniors told the importance of a camp and its enjoyment, then my plan changed I said ok to my seniors and so did Greeshma. Then we had our first camp in Koothuparamba, it was a very big Christian college, I liked the campus infrastructure. There were so many cadets in the college by the time we arrived. There were almost 700 cadets for the camp. Sussky was the camp senior and UO Deepa was the Girls senior. The cadets were now put into different companies’ namely alpha, delta, Charlie and Bravo Company, I was in Charlie Company. Sussky was the Charlie Company senior he wanted us to win. Now I will tell you the camp daily events...
          Morning we have to get up at 5 am because we had physical training at 6am, at 6.30am we were allowed to go to our barracks and we had to report in food point to have breakfast and by 8am we had to report in the camp ground for parade. By 11am the drill was over and then there were theory classes and then we had lunch. We had free time in afternoon. By 4pm we have to report again in track suit (if you have one) or in civil dress for games. At 6pm we have cultural programs and that continued till 8pm. Then we had dinner. By 10pm all girls should enter their barracks and it is seniors duty to check on it. Our seniors were so efficient in everything. Then we could sleep well, but we didn’t sleep, we talked and enjoyed a lot. We made a lot of friends during this time. And so on the camp activities continued like this all 10 days.
               Because of rain most of our parades in morning were cancelled, we had good parade only for 3 days. But Greeshma didn’t like it she wanted parade everyday. I decided to sing an English folk song for cultural program but that was on pending to due rain and other clumping of programs. Finally I got a chance to sing the song for one of the girl seniors. She liked it very much and at the same time Greeshma was mocking at me in behind when I was singing, the senior liked it and she said we both have to perform it in front of all again and so an action English folk song was born there. Guess what everybody in the camp just loved it a lot. It became a great hit in the camp and I was so happy, that song was included in the final day of celebration.
         We celebrated the onam from camp only, it was really great. We had “sadhya” in camp. There was tug of war competition and Charlie Company failed in it. There was volleyball competition and so on. It was a great day. CO was watching everything from here only…. He liked our show. The camp was so superb for me even though rain made some problems and camp fire was cancelled because of that, we did enjoy the camp. I was a lazy person, that camp did inspire me in many ways. I got 3^rd place in debate competition. Truly NCC is a stage for a lot of opportunities. I got many friends through NCC and I can say that the NCC simply rocks….