THE PROGRESSION OF MAKING FRIENDS: week 5

The first day of the week 5 i received e-mail from adventure club.Here the message they sent:

Hi all,

Here is a notice to all of you that have signed up@ club crawl to join Adventure club.

Training start on this coming wednesday on the
20th of May2009@(1530)
Please be in your PT kit,You need to have your covered shoe worn as we will be doing some training.

But on Monday which is on the
18th of May2009@(1700)
The rock wall will be open for training also,we will be doing some fun climbing and also let you all to get a chance to know more about the club before the wednesday training.

For any question or anyone you wanna speak to:
Please contact me @97343796 or mushroom.inc@gmail.com

I felt happily because i was given chance to make friends and climb the wall at sport hall.Let me talk about my experience during the rock climbing.

~Monday,i ended the class by 1pm and the training started at 5pm.Therefore,I went to library to finish my homeworks.At 5pm,i went to sport hall .When i entered the sport hall,i saw many unfamiliar peoples that i never seen they before.First,we warmed up our bodies to avoid cracking of bones.After that,the president of adventure club who called Muhaimin gave us a talk about rock climbing.We then devided into smaller groups and had some games.We introduced ourself in a group and i made some friends in the group who called Issac,Suhaida and Tommy.During the games,the president asked us "strenght more important or Technique?".I answered him "Techinique" with explanation.After the games,we started to wear the harness for safety purpose and prepared to climb the wall.I waited and waited.Eventually,someone approached me and asked me whether want to climb the wall or not.I answered him quickly,"yes".Before climbing,the belayer said to me before we climb must say "am i on belayed" to them.If they say "belay on",then we only can start to climb.After that,we also need to say "climbing" when we are willing to climb.When the belayer says"climb on",we only can climb.This is to ensure that we are secured during the climbing.After i said anything,i started to climb.At the beginning,i was climbed quickly and its succeeded.However,i was failed to climb higher because i found that i had no more energy.I realized that i had used the wrong technique for climbing.

~Wednesday,this was the second day for training.The training started at 3.30pm.We warmed up as usually but something special was jogging had added in this session.We jogged around the school and i discovered that the distance from one end point to another in Nanyang Polytechnic was so long.After jogged,we entered the sport hall and started for training.Firstly,we learned the ways to wear harness correctly.Secondly,we learned about how to tighten the string in figure"8" correctly and lastly we learned how to become a belayer.The senior of adventure club demonstrated to us,and i tried to absorb what they mentioned.Next,we started to climb.I was the third one to climb.This time i used the technique that my senior taught me which was using both legs and hands to climb.This is because we will find that we have no energy when we just use the energy from hand to climb.I remembered the technique and applied it during climbing.Finally,i was succeeded to climb until the highest point.After training,we were having drinks at canteen.

i found that this club was very joyful because it made my life changed which now i had more friends.The images below show some ways i make friends and my climbing memories.