Wira Wirawati HARAPAN BANGSA!: Canoeing & Rafting

Canoeing and rafting are under Sukan Air. These two activities are some of the activities that I anticipated for long. Since our camp is a small camp, plus we don't have a lake or pond for us to do these two activities, we travelled to a place called Tanjung Dawai (I hope I am right with the place ...T_T not good in remembering places) where there is a pond (errr..this pond is kind of somewhere in a paddy field...).

-the pond-

We did canoeing and rafting seperately due to limited time factor. For canoeing, Wirawati went for the training first while the Wira did the next day after the Wirawati. We left our camp early in the morning. Upon reaching, we did some stretching and later, the trainers showed us a demo on how to canoe. Earlier before we came for the practice, we had some theory about canoeing and rafting. Besides demo on how to canoe, there was also demo on how to save yourself in case your canoe overturn. Then, it was our turn to try it out. As usual, ALPHA was the first company to start. After putting on the body aid, we were ready to face the challenge! For canoeing, there are two categories; single and double. I did double with Malathi. It was fun canoeing although it was quite energy consuming to make the canoe move forward. Anyway, I think I and Malathi quite well. Here, cooperation is very essential for those who went for the double.

Let's talk about rafting now. Rafting is another brand new experience for me. In contrast of canoeing, rafting needs 10 members per group. One will be the leader, the person in charge of giving direction and also pulling up the group's spirit. Another member will be the 'jurumudi',the person in charge of the direction of the raft. Meanwhile, the rest will be rafting by the side. Like canoeing, we had the warming up and demo session. Again, ALPHA was the first to try. I was in the same group as my dorm mates. With their support and trust, Norain was the captain and I was the 'jurumudi' in my group. Rafting is not as easy as we thought. It was tough when we wanted to make it moves straight forward instead moving to the side. Besides that, rafting needs a lot of energy to move. It was so tiring when we were in the middle of the pond. But, the most memorable moment to me during the session was Norain screamed when she gave instruction."Kiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii............Kanannnnnnnnnnnnnn.........."It was so loud and her facial expression was so funny when she screamed. It was like as if she was giving birth. Hahahaha.....I was sitting right in front of her and I just can't stand from laughing. It was so funny! Once again, cooperation played an important role in this activity.If there is no cooperation, then we will not succeed in this task.