I will never forget that day at growth camp, this year, two months back. Leaving the bustling cities and to the remote place of the campsite, mosquitoes greeted me before I even entered in. As I remembered, I had my zonal on one of the camp days and I could not think more about it as I know it would be a tiring camp for me.
As said, I had my zonal in the afternoon and could not enjoy the low elements with my friends. But what I have heard from my friends is that they had a nature walk and they enjoyed it very much despite the scorching sun. After arriving back from my zonal and back to the campsite it was already evening and I was already half-dead. I had to continue the activities planned for us at night. The activity was a night nature walk, I was scared as during at night, I could be as blind as a bat. But with my friends encouragement, I persevered till the end, and it was all worth it. After the walk, I enjoyed myself with my classmates, star grazing, it was the most amazing thing that happened in my life, I could feel the bonds between my classmates.
The next day was the high elements, I thought it would be great as I thought I could overcome all the obstacles. But sadly, it isn't. I realized, I had Acrophobia, fear of heights. I didn't know about it till I went up to one of the obstacles. It was so high that my heart was in my mouth. I was the center of attraction as people were encouraging me, not to be scared and jump, but I didn't heed their advice and I stood up there for 12 mins? I was hesitating, but I could bear to jump down. The instructor had no choice but to pull me down. I gave a sigh of relieve that everything has ended.
During the rest of the time, I sat at one corner like a stone under the scorching sun. Looking at everybody faces, they seem to enjoy themselves very much, especially the Flying Fox. The day passes by with the low elements and the campfire. Everything was great, I felt the connections between my classmates more.
Even though the growth camp is over, the most memorable thing I did was the overcoming the high obstacles. Even though I did not try and complete all the obstacles, but at least I did tried on one of it. That scene has been haunting me till now, I could not forget about it because that was once in my whole life had been so scared of heights. That day, I will never forget..
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